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That's the cartoon version that Disney's corporate choreographers might have invented for their CEO, who until recently seemed as invulnerable as Simba the Lion King. But since this was life, Disney's public relations team last week was limited to the semi-astonishing: within 48 hours after doctors sewed four arterial loops to the side of his heart, the head of one of the world's largest entertainment companies was taking a short walk, meeting with at least one member of his board, and spending several hours dictating orders for senior staff members from his hospital...
...modern Disney cartoon feature is an adventure of the spirit -- a guided tour through eruptive emotions. The Little Mermaid plunged briskly into the growing pains of a creature that felt as isolated from the shimmering haut monde as any Afghan peasant or Harlem street kid. Beauty and the Beast took a stroll in the woods with a fellow who needed lessons in the civilizing power of love. The Aladdin carpet ride revealed a whole grownup world of pleasures and perils to a young thief who started out in search of only a quick spin with a pretty princess...
...process they have made enough money to please even Scrooge McDuck. Everybody from Disney renegades to Steven Spielberg tries making cartoon epics; Disney alone consistently succeeds. The studio, which issued (or reissued) only 12 of the 42 animated features that were released in the past five years, has grabbed 83% of the North American box-office take for the genre. (Aladdin has earned $1 billion from box-office income, video sales and such ancillary baubles as Princess Jasmine dresses and Genie cookie jars...
Every Disney cartoon drama is laced with intoxicating comedy, with harlequins and hellcats. From Pinocchio on, the villain makes use of a sly sense of humor and a few goofy abettors. Scar, whom Irons plays with wicked precision as the purring offspring of Iago and Cruella De Vil, hires a pack of hyenas as his goons: clever Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy...
...There are plenty of cartoonists satirizing the Washington political scene. But none do it with the singular blend of whimsy and insight of Mark Alan Stamaty, whose cartoon strip Washingtoon has appeared in scores of newspapers across the country for more than a decade. With this issue, Stamaty brings Washingtoon exclusively to TIME, where it will appear each week in the Chronicles section. "Mark's arrival is a natural step for us," says Chronicles editor Bruce Handy. "The section already looks at news from a 90 degrees angle. And TIME has long nurtured the individual voices of essayists and columnists...