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...last week's DTV release of Aladdin and the King of Thieves, in which Robin Williams reprises his role as the thousand-voiced Genie, was the event of a lackluster movie month. This time Aladdin searches for his missing father and discovers that Dad is a sort of Darth Vader, but nicer. The songs are wan, and the animation (done in Australia and Japan) isn't as spiffy as the studio's theatrical style. But Williams works harder than ever to create a bazaar of bizarre impressions: Woody and Sly, Hope and Crosby, Groucho and Chico and Brando, instantly repackaged...
...more accurate to say that Forbes is the best thing that ever happened to Dole. Like Colin Powell before him, he has soaked up attention that the other candidates desperately need. At one point, Dole's staff referred to Forbes as Darth Vader, because he was killing the Senator's enemies. Now Dole operatives like to reassure themselves that Forbes stands little chance of actually defeating Dole in Iowa, where organization is still supposed to count for more than advertising. "You can spend $25 million of your own money and buy yourself a position in the polls," says Dole campaign...
JOHN MALONE HATES IT THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK OF HIM AS A BOARDROOM bandit. The country's most powerful cable operator--whose 21% stake in Turner Broadcasting gave him potential veto power over last week's big merger--has been variously described as Darth Vader, Andrew Carnegie and Genghis Khan. Such comparisons, says Malone, have him all wrong. He's shocked, shocked by reports that he held up the merger--first by insisting that Time Warner do away with its "poison pill" takeover defense, then by demanding seats on the board--until he had squeezed all the juice he could...
...entirely different tone, Baker Charmedthe class with his witty Ivy Oration, in which adazzled Luke Skywalker joins the ranks of Harvardstudents to fight of an evil Darth Vader whois--what else--a Yalie...
...procrastination idol: Darth Vader. It took him a whole fucking movie to finally admit that Luke is his son. Actually, it was two movies...