Bambi

You could call "Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story" a cheap piece of network sweeps trash.But it's not that good.The ABC made-for-TV movie is worth noting, though, because it suggests how advanced the brain and talent drain has become at the broadcast networks: They can't even make good sweeps sleaze any more.Most of the thinking on this film, which airs at 9 tonight on WJZ-Channel 13, appears to have gone into the advertising campaign. It features actress Lindsay Frost in fishnet stockings and a black bra with one of the shoulders straps worn off the shoulder.

Goucher College plans to hire professional bowmen over the holidays to thin the population of white-tailed deer that roam the leafy 287-acre campus - a move that has provoked an outcry from surprised students. An hour after campus officials sent an e-mail Wednesday announcing the deer kill, a protest petition was circulating among a student body known for its activism. On Facebook, a student group titled "F - - Goucher, save the DEER!" had 79 members last night. "I'm so upset," said sophomore Lily Alden, who is organizing the petition drive and had collected more than 50 signatures in 24 hours.

Bambi Lynn "Bam-Bam" McCauley, a longtime bartender, died of breast cancer March 20 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. She was 47. Ms. McCauley was born in Peoria, Ill., the daughter of a Navy test pilot. She spent her early years on several military bases before moving to Columbia with her family. She was a 1977 graduate of Wilde Lake High School and earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1982. Ms. McCauley worked in computer sales before becoming a bartender.

A few weeks ago, this column was an unrestrained tirade on the subject of deer - focusing on the animals' insidious quest to crash through the windshields of passing motorists. That same day, through no design I'm aware of, another section of The Sun ran a sensitive and sympathetic feature by Abigail Tucker about two Baltimore County women who have made it their mission to protect the adorable white-tailed creatures from the depredations of bloodthirsty hunters. Judging by the e-mail received by Tucker and myself, our readership is rich in Bambi-phobic misanthropes.

Uck. Urp. Gack. Blech.As a celebration of naughty impulses, you can't do much better than this collection of nastiness that's a refreshing anecdote from all those sugary, arty, refined animation collections making the rounds.This one, which plays at the Charles this weekend and next, is about as refined as a toilet seat. It assembles 20 of the most grotesque examples of animation ever done for a 90-minute gagfest. If you don't like nasty, I'd advise steering well clear.Some are old favorites and some are just old but not favorite.

It took 14 months and 9,500 hours to restore and preserve all 110,000 frames of Walt Disney's classic 1942 animated film Bambi, the company says, and the end result is the just-released two-disc DVD ($30). "This is the first of a major corporate initiative to do film restoration at the studio," says Disney animation director Dave Bossert, who served as artistic supervisor for the Bambi restoration. The studio initiative, Bossert adds, "is about commerce to some degree, but it is about preserving artwork.

POZAREVAC, Yugoslavia -- The bulldozers groaned, the welders sweated rivers and a feverish army of Serbian laborers poured concrete, gravel and paint yesterday as the son of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic personally orchestrated the furious pace of construction.But in a nation where NATO bombs and missiles left a wasteland of broken bridges, smashed factories, ruined railways and impotent power plants, this madcap public works project was at none of the above.It was Bambi Park, 6 acres of kiddie pools, skateboard runs, minicar courses and a pirate-ship playground -- along with the centrally located "Extreme Bar" for parents -- all in the heart of the president's hometown.

On April 1, 2005, ALBERT L. COLLECTOR passed away in Kissimmee, Florida. Beloved husband of Joanie; beloved father of Michael (Bridid) and Murry (Bambi). In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to: Dystonia Foundation.

WALT DISNEY'S BAMBITHE STORY AND THE FILM.Ollie Johnstonand Frank Thomas.Stewart, Tabori & Chang.208 pages. $29.95.Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons," recalled in a recent issue of American Film that when he was 2 1/2 years old, his sister took him to his first movie -- Walt Disney's "Bambi" -- and that he has never forgotten it."I enjoyed 'Bambi' immensely . . . but then came the forest-fire scene and I became convinced the theater was going to burn down. I had to be carried out screaming."

SAN FRANCISCO -- An erotic entertainer is in the San Francisco jail on charges of attempted murder after police claimed she tried to hire a man to go to Hawaii and murder a rival dancer named Bambi, one of the stars of the city's notorious Exotic-Erotic Ball.The motive, they said, was jealousy and love.The plot came unglued when the supposed hit man went to the police after allegedly being offered $5,000 and a classic 1968 Mustang to kill the other woman.The dancer who was arrested is Diana Manetti, 26, one of the "Century Girls" at the New Century Theater.

Suddenly on September 6, 2007, HELEN C. SCHLEE's "Bambi" race with longevity ended as a result of cancer. Born in Baltimore, marrying the late Joseph Schlee. Helen invested her time and money into the Sylvan Dell, Joppatowne and Milford Mill Swim Clubs before retiring to her Florida home in 1971, but her lifelong passion was her dogs. Whether traveling to the vet a mile from home, or to Madison Square Garden to attend a dog show, her life was all about animals. Survived by Bambi are her son, Kenneth and daughter-in-law Debbie, son-in-law Bob Gamber; grandchildren, Jamie (Schlee)

Bambi Lynn "Bam-Bam" McCauley, a longtime bartender, died of breast cancer March 20 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. She was 47. Ms. McCauley was born in Peoria, Ill., the daughter of a Navy test pilot. She spent her early years on several military bases before moving to Columbia with her family. She was a 1977 graduate of Wilde Lake High School and earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1982. Ms. McCauley worked in computer sales before becoming a bartender.

On July 25, 2006, KERMIT LOWRY, beloved step-son of Ernest Riggio; dear brother to Henry Lowery; loving father of Karen and Bambi. Interment private. Arrangements by STERLING-ASHTON-SCHWAB-WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC, 410-744-8600.

Suddenly on May 28, 2006, FREDERICK LEO; beloved companion of Teresa King; son of Regina Edwards and the late Bernard Geelhaar; loving brother of Christopher Kraft, Cassandra Wilson, Timothy Geelhaar, Bambi Edwards and Richard Edwards, Jr. Also survived by many other relatives and friends. A Private Cremation was held. A Memorial Service will be celebrated on Monday, June 12, 2006, 11am Graveside in Oak Lawn Cemetery. Arrangements by the Bruzdzinski Funeral Home, P.A.

On April 1, 2005, ALBERT L. COLLECTOR passed away in Kissimmee, Florida. Beloved husband of Joanie; beloved father of Michael (Bridid) and Murry (Bambi). In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to: Dystonia Foundation.

It took 14 months and 9,500 hours to restore and preserve all 110,000 frames of Walt Disney's classic 1942 animated film Bambi, the company says, and the end result is the just-released two-disc DVD ($30). "This is the first of a major corporate initiative to do film restoration at the studio," says Disney animation director Dave Bossert, who served as artistic supervisor for the Bambi restoration. The studio initiative, Bossert adds, "is about commerce to some degree, but it is about preserving artwork.

On July 25, 2006, KERMIT LOWRY, beloved step-son of Ernest Riggio; dear brother to Henry Lowery; loving father of Karen and Bambi. Interment private. Arrangements by STERLING-ASHTON-SCHWAB-WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC, 410-744-8600.

Since there was nothing on TV the other night, and my wife and I didn't want to do anything too radical like, you know, actually sit and talk to each other, we rented one of those slasher movies.Some people might think it unseemly for a man of my age to watch such trash.But the truth is that I am very comfortable around trash, having wallowed in various forms of it for years. Also, slasher movies serve as a tremendous boost to the ego -- the victims in these movies are so stupid that I always end up feeling like Jonas Salk by the closing credits.

On February 1, 2005, MR. WALTER POWELL SOMPAYRAC, 62, of Halethorpe, MD, formerly of Tulsa OK and Manassas VA. Beloved father of Bambi Ann Iverson and Amy Sompayrac. He was the son of Walter A. Sompayrac and the late Ann D. Sompayrac. He is also survived by brothers William Sompayrac, John Sompayrac, and Michele Jordan. Relatives and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1328 Sulphur Spring Rd., on Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at The Church of the Ascension on Friday at 10:30 A.M. Interment to immediately follow at Meadowridge Memorial Park.

I have been a fly fisherman much of my life, often spending 40 or more days a year with a rod in my hand, on trout streams all over the United States, in Canada, England and Ireland. I know the lives and habits of wild trout, and of other aquatic life. I have read dozens and dozens of books on the fancy. Some have been elaborately, sometimes brilliantly, technical; others achieve extraordinary literary artistry. I know of none that as successfully conflates both those feats as The Stream, by Brian Clarke (Overlook, 240 pages, $23.95)