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A feature in which Sun writers and critics sound off about the movies. After 60-plus years of unrivaled mastery of the animation field, Disney has abandoned the traditional drawing board in favor of pixels and computers and all manner of newfangled technology. That's supposed to make a difference? Chicken Little, the first release of the new technology-savvy Disney, hits theaters today accompanied by all manner of ballyhoo. The suggestion is that, after a string of films that under-performed at the box office, this new direction signifies a new start for the studio, an infusion of new blood, a reinvigorated bunch of storytellers now firmly entrenched on animation's cutting edge.

IN JANUARY 1988, when Jesse Jackson appeared on ABC's "This Week," columnist George F. Will asked him a series of questions designed to expose Mr. Jackson's deception and ignorance.In particular, Mr. Will asked Mr. Jackson, "As president, would you support measures such as the G-7 measures in the Louvre accords?"As Mr. Will acidly recounted in a subsequent column, Mr. Jackson's "answer to [that] question was, `Explain that.' "The Louvre accords, it turned out -- to the enlightenment of Mr. Jackson and just about everyone else -- were an agreement reached in Paris a year earlier to stabilize currency exchange rates.

Retirees and staff, former patients and their families are combing through thousands of pictures from the archives of Springfield Hospital Center.Maybe memories working together can assign names to photographs in time for the January opening of a museum at the Sykesville mental hospital."

Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski are two of the 20th century's most memorable stage characters. Blanche is a Southern belle with honeyed speech and a flirtatious manner. Cultivated and hypersensitive, she has been badly damaged by a series of misfortunes. She copes by drinking and pretending that her life is one long romantic tale. Stanley is a working-class lout of meager education, an animal without higher feelings. His outlook is bounded by his job, bowling, poker, eating, sleeping and sex with his wife.

THE FORMER Soviet Union used to celebrate its armed forces with a massive parade of troops in Red Square every November. We do it differently in this country -- in a far less threatening manner -- by parading the best and brightest of our future military leaders from West Point and Annapolis on the day of the Army-Navy football game. It's Baltimore's turn to play host to this event, after a 56-year lapse. The city is trying to make the most of it, too. Baltimore is an ideal setting for this sporting rivalry between the nation's oldest service academies.

BARCELONA, Spain -- The United States-Cuba boxing rivalry even involves ringside doctors, if you're to believe the American version of light heavyweight Montell Griffin's disputed loss to world champion Torsten May of Germany last night.U.S. coach Joe Byrd claimed the fight should have been stopped after Griffin opened a one-inch gash above May's right eye 54 seconds into the final round, but said the Cuban doctor convinced the referee to allow it to continue.The doctor, Byrd said, wanted May to advance to the next round, where the cut could put him at a disadvantage against a Cuban opponent.

More than 71 million Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease. That's just a bit more than the total number of married couples in the United States. What relationship could there possibly be between marriage and cardiac health? Well, if you have to ask that question, you aren't putting two and two together. And while we're on that subject, when will you start balancing the checkbook? Cripes, the way you go through money. But we digress. A recent study by some researchers at the University of Utah really digs closer to the heart - and the hopelessly clogged arteries - of the matter.

In Russia, Elisso Virsaladze is regarded as one of the world's best pianists, but in the United States she's a nobody."It doesn't disturb me," says Virsaladze, 50, who plays Chopin's E Minor Concerto tonight, Saturday and Sunday with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Eri Klas."

As you might have read, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is in the midst of re-inventing itself, trying to discover new ways of connecting to the community, building up and exciting audiences. The BSO is hardly alone in making such efforts. Folks at the Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky, for example, are concerned that the organization has what its board president calls, in a recent interview with the Courier-Journal, "an aura of aloofness." To counter that, a new music director who can be "a celebrity in Louisville" is being sought, more pops concerts are being contemplated, and, to attract the ever-elusive younger crowd, marketing efforts for the orchestra will emphasize "fun."

A man of my age (41) and emotional health (fragile) has all he can do to get through each day without dissolving into a crying jag every five minutes or otherwise bugging out.So I don't need any additional stress in my life.I don't need any more psychos, losers or misfits making things any harder than they have to be.I especially don't need to see a woman brushing her teeth as she negotiates her car next to mine in rush-hour traffic, which we will get to in a moment. Please . . . don't rush me.Actually, that was not the craziest thing I've seen someone do behind the wheel.