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...last film, Stand By Me, was suffused with such yuppie winsomeness that today's generation of teenage boys could use it as their fathers had used copies of The Prophet: to impress girls with their sensitivity. Here, liberated by parody, he remints visual cliches, like the gloriously fake matte paintings of fairy-tale realms, and they are funny- lovely. As for the Princess Bride, she is flat-out lovely. Wright's grave blond beauty makes her the wedding-cake figure around which all the movie's clowns cavort. As you watch this enchanting fantasy, feel free to be thrilled...
Play guns are a $200 million-a-year market for U.S. toymakers, with about 75% ( of sales devoted to fake military weapons, including look-alike Uzi machine guns and M-16s. Those toys can turn deadly for their wielders, whether they are used by holdup artists who may draw defensive fire from police or robbery victims, or by innocent youngsters whose intent is mistaken by police...
Daisy Manufacturing, the leading maker of toy military guns, will now add bright orange markings to its fake firearms to reduce such risks. So far, though, police take little comfort from the plan. One fear: crooks will paint similar markings on real guns, leading officers to hesitate, and risk injury or death, before firing...
...Ogonyok, which two years ago was largely unread, now sells out all 1.5 million issues every week. Under the editorship of Vitaly Korotich, the magazine has published a 1939 testament from an exiled Bolshevik denouncing Stalin as "the real enemy of the nation, and the organizer of famine and fake trials." It also sent a young reporter to Afghanistan to write candid accounts of the increasingly unpopular...
...commentator was not a disguise. Don't Tread on Me proves that the life story of Perelman was the adventures of Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde. Early on he decided that Will Rogers' statement "I never met a man I didn't like" was "pure flatulence, crowd-pleasing and fake humility," and acted accordingly. Prudence Crowther, Perelman's friend during his last year, provides a wide-eyed introduction to these selected letters: "I talked about the Chaplin I'd just been watching; he knew Chaplin." But her accompanying notes illuminate a long and entertaining list of the writer's enmities...