Word: disney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entertainment president who is currently head of Warner Bros., and Douglas McCorkindale, vice chairman of Gannett. Daly has declared publicly that he is not interested, while McCorkindale reportedly said he had not been approached. Another possible candidate: Michael Eisner, a former ABC executive who is now chairman of Walt Disney Productions...
...Walt Disney Co. does not make just "movies" for its theme parks. Puny two-dimensional shadows projected on a flat screen would not do for the entertainment empire built on Uncle Walt's idea for a better mousetrap. At Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., visitors sit in round theaters and are treated to postcard-panorama film tours of China and France through the technocraft of Circle-Vision 360. The 100 small panels that make up the huge screen in the Energy Pavilion at Disney World's Epcot Center rotate in sync...
...feelie in question is Captain EO, a 17-minute space fantasy with music and dance, which will be shown at the two Disney parks and, as the press kit trumpets, "nowhere else in the universe." But even if it were a dirt-bike movie that played only seedy drive-ins, EO would be notable for the conglomerate of megabuck talent that confected it. The executive producer is George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars trilogy. The director is Francis Ford Coppola, once Lucas' mentor as executive producer of American Graffiti, now switching roles with his former acolyte. The star...
...film called Luxo Jr. goes even further. The 90-sec. sequence, created by former Disney Animator John Lasseter, manages to charge two perfectly realistic desk lamps with the emotional intensity of a father-son relationship. When Luxo Jr. accidently bursts his bouncing ball, the film evokes sadness, compassion and remorse with nothing more than the wave of a lamp cord and the dip of a smooth, metallic head. "Reality is a convenient measure of complexity," says Smith. "But why be restricted to reality...
...artistic favorites were rats (The Nutcracker Suite), mice (Walt Disney's Cinderella), whales (John Huston's Moby Dick) and the sexual cannibals of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer, which so seized her imagination that, she says, "my parents were afraid I'd try to eat someone on the beach." In fact, her mother had a deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt...