He could have easily spent his dinnertime running the Pinocchio sequences through his head.

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Despite the distractions with Pinocchio, Walt Disney was looking for an opportunity to collide with new ideas.

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And "there's no Pinocchio's nose" to serve as a reliable signal that a child is lying, Dr. Talwar says.

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PINOCCHIO, depicted in a cartoon in a South African newspaper, is seeking work in Mpumalanga, one of the country's poorer provinces.

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Call it a reverse-Pinocchio effect: Humans effectively transform into stiff, wooden creatures.

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First, it was hobbled by the departure of Steve Carell as Michael Scott, the bad boss whose Pinocchio-like transformation concluded when he found real love.

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He and his team were plowing through Pinocchio and found themselves in a creative bind as they wrestled with some basic questions of animation, like how to draw the main characters.

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The live action short, which starred Shelley Duvall and a young Sofia Coppola, was deemed too scary by the family-friendly company, who had planned to show it before a re-release of Pinocchio.

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Pinocchio came at the right time.

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The opposite of Frankenstein, the myth I wish we saw more of, is the Pinocchio myth, which is about a puppet that wants to become human, an improbable technology that wants to make life better, if only with a sweet, gentle wish upon a star.

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Storefront Pinocchio never disappoints.

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