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Donald Duck should be thankful he is a Disney cartoon character and not a real bird at Walt Disney World's Discovery Island zoological park. After a two- month investigation by the Florida game and freshwater fish commission, the state attorney's office and the Federal Government have filed suit against the company and five employees for alleged cruelty to animals. Among the charges: firing rifles at hawks, beating vultures to death with sticks, and disturbing the nests and eggs of egrets...
MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Simon & Schuster; $21.95). An as-told-to memoir by a protean genius of modern jazz who played with Bird, Diz and countless other legends. With all the uglies -- drugs, booze, women betrayed -- writ large...
...SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (NBC, Oct. 1, 9 p.m. EDT). Elizabeth Taylor stars as a fading movie star (no comments, please) who falls for a shady drifter (Mark Harmon) in Tennessee Williams' play...
...most indelible image of the spill is that of dead and dying creatures. The body count so far includes 34,000 birds (among them were 139 bald eagles) and 984 sea otters. (One man also died, crushed in the dumbwaiter of a ship in the Exxon cleanup fleet.) Scientists believe the actual wildlife toll is much higher. Recovered bird carcasses, for example, may represent only 5% to 10% of the victims. Many dead otters disappeared under the water, and searches for other animals were limited to the high-water marks on some of the affected islands to respect the wishes...
...dude, nice bird...