Sunday Review: Bears

Darn, those cubs are cute

By Morris Dean

Disneynature's most recent documentary film, Bears (April 2014, directed by Alastair Fothergill & Keith Scholey), seems to me marred by a cutesy narrative (supplied by the voice of John C. Reilly) that oohs and ahs over the antics of grizzly bear cubs Amber & Scout as though Reilly were their uncle competing with some other uncle. There's no doubt, though, that the cubs are cute. I can quote my unsentimental wife on that point; she meant it admiringly, and she doesn't like cutesy any more than I do.

The Six Mountains

We're back today from four days in Vermont, where we visited our son at the Killington Music Festival and identified the "Six Mountains" referred to in the name of the inn we stayed in. (If you click on the photo, you should be able to make out their names in the enlargement of the ski trail billboard behind the Ramshead performance place.)

Yesterday we took a gondola up to Killington Peak. Looking westward toward Rutland: