Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago a little-known French comedy called Zazie Dans le Metro played the art-cinema circuit. It was a great spoof of all sorts of movies, from the Last Year at Marienbad variety to the Disney cartoon, and it was brilliantly funny without being selfconsciously clever. Writer-director Adolfas Mekas has tried without success to pull off the same sort of joke in Hallelujah. All that comes through however, is an hour and a half of very self-conscious and very unfunny cleverness...
BELL SYSTEM SCIENCE SERIES (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A Walt Disney documentary on oceanography. Color...
...White once explained. But it was only in the last four years of his life-thanks to some $3,000 a month from Camelot royalties-that he could always pay for his medicine. For The Sword in the Stone, which was sold outright when he was desperately poor, Walt Disney paid him a munificent $2,000. Since 1948 he had lived in Alderney, a pebble-sized Channel Island, where he won the natives' hearts by announcing that he was a 17-time bigamist on the lam from London...
...first attempts at the stage; she was hampered by a Grand Ole Opry accent learned in her native Knoxville. She quit college after her father's death and helped support her family by singing at women's clubs and speaking the part of Sleeping Beauty in Walt Disney's movie. But soon she was selling cars on TV, where her Greer Garson beauty and Grace Kelly style quickly made her one of the best in the business. She made her opera debut in Los Angeles in 1958 after Jack Benny talked her into taking herself seriously...
...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. Walt Disney's appealing package of holiday fauna contains a bull terrier, a Labrador retriever and a Siamese cat, all letting the fur fly on a 250-mile trek through the Canadian wilds...