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French applicants will most likely oblige Disney's notions of a clean-cut appearance. But will their acquiescence spell the beginning of the end of French culture as we know it? Only the most virulent cultural chauvinists think so. Says Christian Cardon, head of the interministerial government delegation that is supervising the Disney project: "French culture cannot be threatened by Disney. Just because an amusement park will open, university students are not going to stop studying Sartre...
...riot as the pedantic Humpty-Dumpty. Simon Goldhill and Caryl Yanow as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle were also amusing. Julie Zickefoose and Clare McGorrigan as the White and Red Queens supplied some spirited moments and the chorus was delightful, especially in the Lobster Quadrille dance. Cindy Cardon as the vamping, tap-dancing mutton charmed even those who had given up hope after two and a half hours...
...Cynthia Cardon provides an enjoyable performance as Moorehouse's wealthy, cloying wife, and as various other personifications of American aristocracy in its death-throes. Cardon's character, unlike the others, does not change with the times. Rather, she clings to the past. While Cardon fails to use this constancy to bring real dimension to her characters, she successfully shapes their affectations and mannerisms into a real--if painfully superficial--personality...
...contrast, the minor roles are handled with a much greater sense of what Shaw is about. Cynthia Cardon is just right as Prossy, Morell's secretary and admirer, snapping out her consonants, as Shaw once suggested she should, with a "ten pound gun hammer spring." Thomas Champion, as Burgess, Candida's father, has a laudable Cockney accent, and Mariani himself oozes idolatrous servility as the cleric Lexy. One of the most successful scenes in the production is the comic encounter between Prossy, Burgess and Marchbanks; in this run-in with characters who have the outlines of caricature, Marchbanks' own exaggerated...
...show: almost everything Disney is now into was conceived of by Walt. "That's the way Walt would want it" is a refrain heard frequently in the stucco Disney headquarters in Burbank, Calif. The executive most responsible for sticking to Walt's winning formulas is E. Cardon Walker, 60, who joined Walt as a camera operator in the 1930s and has been Disney president since 1971. A tall, husky man whose use of profanity is limited to an occasional G-rated "damn," Card Walker occupies an unpretentious office on the Disney lot not far from Dopey Drive...