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Spielberg has made the kind of movie Walt Disney might have made had he lived into the 1980s, an entrancing combination of pure cinematic movement, good-humored lack of pretense and allusive fantasy. And he has been collaborating with the man who is Disney's logical successor. For with the old master, George Lucas shares certain values - Wasp, smalltown, morally conservative - and certain talents - for technological innovation, cost-conscious super vision of team creative effort and responsible merchandising of motion picture offshoots. Lucas also holds to Disney's vision of a community of creative film makers living...
...himself. His public image is overshadowed by those of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who preceded him as National Security Adviser. They resided upstairs in grander style and dominated foreign policy. Allen has shrunk the adviser's job to the stature it had with McGeorge Bundy (Kennedy) and Walt Rostow (Johnson); indeed, he is back in their old basement office, in one corner of the supersecure complex. It is a modest command post for the task: giving Ronald Reagan the full facts of a dangerous world. On these gleanings hangs our future...
...braggart, of course, has always been present on the American scene, and boasting has been tolerated when it hap pened to come from certain types - poets, entertainers, politicians - who were considered beyond the pale anyhow. It was all right for Walt Whitman to indulge his flagrant self-celebration ("I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious") because, as a poet, he was lost to gentility anyway...
Though he said anti-American sentiment is strong in Nicaragua, he assured the audience that American poets from Walt Whitman to Robert Frost were well-loved in the country...
...AMERICAN POP, Ralph Bakshi tries to do for pop music what Walt Disney did for classical in Fantasia, expanding the melodies into coherent, complex visual experiences. Unfortunately, while Bakshi's animation technique often stupefies, his jumbled, negative vision drags his effort down...