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...seen elephants parading down the aisle, wildebeest stampedes, dancing flatware and jungle creatures flying through the air on bungee cords. But ever since the Walt Disney Co. discovered--first with Beauty and the Beast and most decisively, in 1997, with The Lion King--that its popular movies could have a long and profitable second life onstage, a prim English nanny has been waiting patiently in the wings. She was the star of one of the most beloved of all Disney movies, which boasted a made-to-order musical score--and real human characters to boot, who didn't need...
...Travers' stories--so long to make the leap from screen to stage has to do mainly with boring adult things like copyrights. In 1993 London theater impresario Cameron Mackintosh bought the rights to the Mary Poppins stories from their nonagenarian author (who was never happy with the Disney movie, which she felt prettified her material). But Disney had the rights to the film, including the all-important songs. The two eventually got together in a collaboration for the theater history books: Disney, the studio that virtually reinvented the family musical, and Mackintosh, king of the modern megamusical, with a string...
...volume Ode to Kirihito (825 pages; $25). Best known for his stories on themes of the power of love and karmic justice, here Tezuka has created a sophisticated medical horror story, with so much perversity that it may permanently change the master's American reputation as the Japanese Walt Disney. Though it retains Tezuka's core interest in the karmic consequences of immoral behavior, in this particular book he seems to take a strange pleasure in depicting the worst of human nature. How else do explain scenes like a dog-faced former nun being raped by her physician...
...Villiers, 57, may be the perfect candidate to turn tennis around because he has nothing to prove. He's rich and secure. At Disney for 14 years, he most recently ran its international TV business, then he moved on to a private-equity fund. "I've had a great career, and I don't care if I lose my job," says De Villiers, whose cancer is in remission. "So I'm prepared to do the right thing and go to the edge to get there...
...Disney man took over an organization that inked a $1.2 billion TV and marketing deal in 1999 with Swiss company ISL, only to watch that outfit go belly up two years later. To weather the loss, the ATP cut staff, eliminated player bonuses and pushed for more sponsorship dollars. Worse, the sport's U.S. television viewership leveled off; it's nowhere close to golf...