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Disney has even begun adults-only trips. No wonder. When we arrived in Europe and met 20 other family travelers, I did have a moment of terror imagining being trapped with this many children on a bus. But our group soon bonded by way of carriage rides, strudel-making lessons, fencing demonstrations and castle tours. As the junior passengers rolled their eyes at us, we adults were busy on the bus enjoying sing-alongs of Disney tunes. It was our inner children we were really taking on vacation--the kids were simply along for the ride...
...course, in the midst of all this passionate effort, the animal shelters of Missouri and elsewhere continue to receive the usual sad supply of abandoned, neglected and lost pets, most of them doomed to the needle. Does it make sense, some wonder, to go to heroic lengths to save potentially violent dogs while harmless strays die hardly noticed? For that matter, how high a priority is the shortage of homes for fighting dogs in a country where options are too often scarce for the human children of abusive parents? (See TIME's photo-essay "Strays to the Rescue...
Christmas spirit seeped into every nook and cranny of Kirkland House this past week as students went out of their way to make their Secret Santa recipient’s dreams come true. With the floods of emails over Kirkland List thanking their Secret Santas, you start to wonder if the real Santa Claus was ever this good...
Nonetheless, the silly extravaganza that is the “fact meets fiction” of “Bat Boy: The Musical” manages to keep the wonder going even beyond the show’s incredibly tragic end. In the world of tabloid fantasy, love can be open to all, death is no longer a barrier to hope, and the optimism of the seemingly impossible can still ring out: Bat Boy lives...
...those terms that it asks—merely those of an open mind—the film has considerable mileage. “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is a small wonder of mise en scène, richly crafted and painstakingly choreographed, allowing for the total control over composition to which Anderson always seemed to aspire in his earlier films. Anderson’s decision to shoot an animated film comes as no real surprise. It’s the natural end of a fascination with vibrant color schemes in his films in general—a runoff from...