Word: disney
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...gimme feevahhh," sang jazz diva Peggy Lee, but it's Walt Disney studios , that's feeling the heat. Lee is suing the film company for $25 million in a dispute over royalties from the blockbuster videocassette of Disney's 1955 animated tale, Lady and the Tramp. Lee co-wrote all the movie's songs and provided the voices for four characters, including a torch-song-singing Pekingese named Peg. Her fee: $4,000, meager even by 1950s standards...
...Disney asked Lee last year to help promote the release of the Lady and the Tramp cassette, paying a $500 "honorarium" -- her only share of the video's $100 million in revenues. Lee contends she deserves a larger cut on the ground that her 1952 contract denied Disney the right to make "transcriptions for sale to the public" without her O.K. Disney states only that the suit is "without merit...
OLIVER & COMPANY. Dickens with a twist: the sprightly tale of an orphan cat named Oliver, a gang of raffish dogs and a pampered poodle with Bette Midler's voice. A jaunty love song to New York City, and the best Disney cartoon feature since Walt died...
...works can fit any format: modern comedy (Bill Murray in Scrooged), musical cartoon (the Disney gang' s Oliver & Company) or period piece (Christine Edzard' s daunting six hours of Little Dorrit...
...Walt Disney Co. would seem a natural to do Dickens. Walt was, after all, the Dickens of his day, deviser of a comprehensive world in which humor taught homilies and fantasy purred up against sentimentality. But not until now has the studio based a cartoon musical feature on a Dickens tale. It was worth the wait. Oliver & Company is Dickens with a twist, and Disney with a treat. Turning Fagin's gang into canines, transporting them to modern Manhattan and embroidering the scene with street vendors and Tiffany dog tags, the picture makes for a luscious comic valentine...