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...concert in the Southern California desert. Some oldtime employees have not shared in the corporate bounty. Says one: "I wasn't obnoxious enough to make myself a millionaire." Jobs drives the staff hard, expecting long hours, high productivity and indefinite patience with his scattershot ideas. "He should be running Walt Disney," says a onetime Apple manager. "That way, every day when he's got some new idea, he can contribute to something different...
...Walt Disney never thought of the work of his studio as the creation of art," reports Publisher Robert E. Abrams in the preface to Treasures of Disney Animation Art (Abbeville; 319 pages; $85). "His sole aim was to create entertainment." But the two goals are not mutually exclusive, as demonstrated by this vast selection gleaned from millions of sketches, paintings and layouts. Abrams' book continues the elevation of Disney from the Barnum of the barnyard to an aesthetician with uncanny instincts. This is no Mickey Mouse collection; it includes paintings by, of all people, Thomas Hart Benton and Salvador...
Moreover, Las Vegas depends on overnight guests for the bulk of its business, while day trippers predominate in Atlantic City, and in such numbers that during 1981 the city pulled ahead of Florida's Walt Disney World to become the most popular single travel resort in the U.S. Says Lee Isgur, a respected gambling-industry analyst with the New York City investment firm of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins Inc.: "Basically, the eastern half of the country has discovered the excitement and glamour of legalized casino gambling. Millions of people can now drive two or three hours at the most...
JENSEN FARLEY PICTURES' animated fairy tale The Last Unicorn confirms, by default, that only Walt Disney had what it takes. Although Unicorn contains some innovatively clever characters, the piece as a whole lacks the fluidity of images, the magnificance of each character's movements, and the timelessness of plot that give Walt Disney productions their eternal appeal. Like other recent endeavors to animate fantasy books--Tolkien's The Hobbit, for example--the adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's novel The Last Unicorn fails to capture through animation all the intricacies of plot and description usually woven by words...
...special heroes were never the biggest stars. Who knows exactly why a boy takes on the care of a certain ballplayer? Kuhn always rooted for Walt Judnich, a large outfielder for the old St. Louis Browns, because Judnich once spoke to him with extraordinary kindness. Looking up the record of Sid Cohen, in Kuhn's memory a Senators pitcher of glorious accomplishment, Kuhn was charmed not long ago to ind that Cohen had pitched a total of three major league seasons and won exactly three games. How much delight baseball brought the commissioner, only he ever knew, since...