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...packed up my bags in Cambridge and flew to Atlanta just over five weeks ago, bleary-eyed from a hellish semester and determined to have the Best and Most Adventurous Summer Ever. It was my first journey below the Mason-Dixon line beyond the typical family Disney World trip. Like Ponce de Leon, I began a Southern quest for eternal youth, hoping to discover a new place—and reinvent myself...
...very notion that a fluffy summer action movie should be headed by America's most beautiful serious actor (or seriously beautiful one) paints a flummoxed smile on the faces of Depp's admirers. This is, after all, a film based on a Disney theme-park attraction--not a cool thrill machine like the Tower of Terror or a camp classic like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride but the staid Pirates of the Caribbean. For this project, Depp put aside the nutsy-greatsy auteurs of his past (Tim Burton, John Waters, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch) to team up with Gore Verbinski...
...with seashells and margaritas--for a late Jimmy Buffett fan, and regularly covers chapel walls with sheets of white paper on which attendees can record their memories of the dead. Jason Bradshaw, the second-generation proprietor of a funeral home in Minneapolis, Minn., has attended customer-service seminars at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., to pick up tips. "We look at ourselves as being in the hospitality industry," says Bradshaw...
...controversial antisedition legislation that may be enacted on July 9. When listeners flooded the lines to denounce the legislation, Wong urged them to stand up for Hong Kong and join the mass march. In fact, he seized every opportunity to do so. At a private screening of the Disney animated movie Finding Nemo the night before the protest, Wong was asked to talk about his Cantonese voice-over for Bruce the shark. Instead he shouted, "March tomorrow!" Wong seems to feel it's his duty to spur the public. As he says matter of factly: "I'm an icon...
...parlayed rotund homeliness into starring roles in The Music Man and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; in Malibu, California. In his later years, Hackett was rarely off the nightclub circuit but got occasional film parts, most notably as the voice of Scuttle the seagull in Disney's The Little Mermaid...