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Among the delights she found was the screening room, where she had Walt Disney's Freaky Friday run off for herself and a schoolmate, Claudia Sanchez, the daughter of a Chilean Embassy cook. There was also bowling in the basement alley, a snowball fight with her mother and brothers outside the Oval Office and a fast new friend: Grits, a mongrel puppy that was given to her by her new teacher Verona Meeder. After spending his first night on the pink rug in Amy's second-floor bedroom along with her cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Grits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fast Start for the First Kid | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in England, Finch worked in Australia, where Sir Laurence Olivier spotted him acting in a lunchtime show at a glass factory. Finch was soon playing Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His mastery was evident in whatever parts he played, from Walt Disney roles to the sensitive homosexual in Sunday. Finch savored his life both off and on camera. "One hopes that one is something else from year to year," he said. "If you keep an open mind, you must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 24, 1977 | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...fans. The N.F.L. went superpatriotic in 1972, when it staged a flyover by Air Force jets, having arranged for a plane to peel off into the "missing man" formation while P.O.W. families looked on. There have been theatrics spectacular, displays dismal. This year it is all up to Walt Disney Productions, which will assure us that "It's a Small World" and a happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: THE SUPER SHOW | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...Even Walt Disney Productions has a hand in the act: they'll provide us with a spectacular half-time display that should outdo the 4000 pigeons and the "missing-man" formation of Air Force jets that have highlighted half-time spectacles in past years...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: All This and Football Too... | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...Dayton, at 35, heads Doty-Dayton Productions, a Hollywood company that in four years has turned out five movies, and all profitable-a phenomenal performance by the standards of cinema finance. The company now is releasing as many films, counting its own flicks and pickups from other producers, as Walt Disney Productions. Though there is a belief in Hollywood that people who clamor for cleaner movies do not go to them, Dayton says: "There is an audience out there that is getting tired of sex scenes and gutter language. There is a need for more family films. Disney makes them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: G for Gold | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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