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...artists at Disney's animation unit--it should be called the ambition unit--have bigger eyes. They figure that where they go, into melodrama or political sagas, the audience will follow. With The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (who made Beauty and the Beast) have splashed the broody emotions of Victor Hugo's epic novel with a bold, dazzling palette. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas) have written the largest, most imposing score yet for an animated film. The result is a grand cartoon cathedral, teeming with gargoyles and treachery, hopeless love and tortured lust...
This Quasimodo (voiced and sung by Tom Hulce) is a young man with the most intense growing pains--Beauty's Beast, but without the majesty. Imprisoned in the Notre Dame bell tower by his master, the imperious Judge Frollo (Tony Jay), Quasi pines to be among the people he sees from above. His one furlough has him crowned King of Fools and leads to his lovestruck meeting with the Gypsy Esmeralda (the indomitably spunky Demi Moore). Frollo, to his surprise and shame, loves...
...owned factories to supply footwear made to Nike specifications. The company has some 800 staff members in Asia whose responsibility includes factory inspection. Yet, says an industry source, "shoe factories are huge. There are 3,000 workers in there. Our inspectors try to manage, but it's a big beast." Overall, the lot of Indonesian workers is improving. Real wages increased 55% from 1990 to 1995, according to the World Bank. "This is a pretty decent story," says Dennis de Tray, a bank director in Jakarta...
Hired in 1977 as the company's first staff artist, Miyamoto designed the popular Donkey Kong game four years later by combining themes from two of his favorite stories, King Kong and Beauty and the Beast. In 1985 he turned a sketch of a pint-size workman in a cap and droopy mustache into Mario the Plumber, the world's best-selling video-game character (total worldwide sales of Mario games in all formats: $5.85 billion...
DRAGONHEART (May 31). Can Dennis Quaid ever star in a hit movie? Maybe, if he plays a medieval bounty hunter and his sidekick is a chummy beast animated by suave computer graphics and voiced by Sean Connery. It's Braveheart meets Pete's Dragon: burly whimsy on the hoof...