Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweep and elegance of residential show places are breathtaking-and so are the prices. In Bel Air and Holmby Hills, homes worth upwards of half a million dollars are commonplace, and so are residents of the likes of Walt Disney, Red Skelton, Burt Lancaster, Industrialist Tex Thornton and Department Store Magnate Edward Carter. Other enclaves of the very rich are Beverly Hills' Trousdale Estates, where homes cost from $100,000 to $300,000, and Hancock Park, an old area of the central city that has been restored to extraordinary elegance. In Hancock Park, in stately mansions set on handsomely...
...voice competition. At first glance, Marsh seemed too good to sing true. A tall (5 ft. 11 in.) blonde with a fresh-scrubbed athletic look, she is the embodiment of a capitalist American background. She was a tomboy, an expert swimmer, a 4-H girl who in true Walt Disney tradition sold her favorite horse to pay for music lessons. She sang in public professionally for the first time only last season, when Erich Leinsdorf signed her to sing in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Boston...
...Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story that audiences can eat up, the Elizabethan language of the script notwithstanding, and he predicts that the film "will go over well with a Walt Disney audience." In fact, he says, "we intend to make Shakespeare as successful a screenwriter as Abby Mann...
King Bee. The official corporate leader of all this activity is Walt's brother Roy, 72, who is president and board chairman of Disney Productions. Walt calls himself the executive producer, "the little bee who goes from one area to another, gathering pollen and sort of stimulating everybody." Obviously he is the head bee. One ex-Disney executive notes that, for all its 3,300 employees, the corporation is still a one-man show. "Everything in that plant goes through Walt and with his blessing. The king is king, as far as he's concerned. He okays ideas...
Still, the central idea of Walt Disney Productions and its unerring feel for the market have come from no one but Walt. His credo is that "you can't live on things made for children-or for critics. I've never made films for either of them. Disneyland is not for children. I don't play down." Or up. "I've always had a nightmare," he says. "I dream that one of my pictures has ended up in an art theater, and I wake up shaking." The audience he aims at is "honest adults." In short...