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Fact: no one will play with our toys. Our children will scorn slap bracelets and turn their noses up at Trapper Keepers. Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Pony dolls will be viewed with condescension, Transformers and He-Man action figures with contempt. Gameboys will line our nation's landfills, and not near the top of the heap. No supplies will be swapped, no wagons will be caulked and no snake bites will be healed on "The Oregon Trail...
Even when he was a regular on the TV series Trapper John, M.D., Brian Stokes Mitchell (just Brian Mitchell then, before he added his middle name for more distinctiveness on the marquee) was a Broadway performer at heart. A film editor on the show once said he knew Mitchell must be a theater vet because he acted even when the camera wasn't on him: "You don't turn off when it's not your line...
...Scottish, American Indian and maybe a couple of others) didn't stop him from getting roles. "I can kind of play everything because I am everything," he says. He landed a part in TV's Roots: The Next Generations when he was just 20 and spent seven years on Trapper John before shifting his concentration to the stage, co-starring in the short-lived Broadway musical Mail in 1988 and later in Oh, Kay!, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Jelly's Last...
...Against this trapper are mosquitoes and high water...
...soon to tell whether laptops will become classroom fixtures (like calculators) or fads (whatever happened to Trapper Keepers?). But the legions of the faithful are growing. At Mott Hall, many of the sixth-graders have adoringly given their computers nicknames. Jose Ramirez, shy and bespectacled, struggled to fit in with his classmates before the arrival of laptops. Since then he's become something of a sage. On this afternoon, he's floating among the different groups in the classroom, peering at the work on their screens, shooting down technical troubles. "It's more fun for me now with my classmates...