re: film & reality
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:02:30 -0500 (EST)
Diego!
How right you are! Among the most disgusting travesties in the filmic
medium ranks the Disneyfication of WINNIE.
(In this context, however, I was both saddenned and delighted to learn that
the original Pooh, and Kanga, and Roo, and Tigger, and Piglet are now safely
ensconced on the second floor of a public library in New York City--right
across from the Museum of Modern Art. I loved visiting them there, with my
daughter, who wrote a precocious note in the visitor's book. But I hated
the fact that they'd been ex-patriated. It's almost as heinous as the theft
of the Elgin Marbles!)
Edward Everett Horton has a WONDERFUL voice! But it just ain't WINNIE!
Cheers,
Paul
OSR--Who can send me a surreptitious cyber copy of the JDS story about the
bowling balls? I think it's time I read it.