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...white father and a Sioux mother—he is a half-breed himself. As expected, Hidalgo quickly devolves into yet another story about the power of the human will to overcome adversity and have pride in what you are and where you came from. Given that Disney produced the film, the outcome of the race, and the film, is a foregone conclusion. The bad guys have deep growly voices that prove their deceitfulness, the faithful sidekick/servant dies while saving important lives in the process, and there is just enough racial profiling to make their point while avoiding controversy...
...Walt Disney Pictures has apparently created an entire department solely devoted to the production of assembly-line stories wherein sports serve as analogies for actual conflicts that demand clean resolution. Having tackled football and baseball with a fair degree of success in Remember the Titans and The Rookie, Disney moves down its list to hockey, in particular the U.S. Olympic hockey team’s triumphant victory over the world champion Soviet team in the 1980 Games. But Miracle makes a valiant attempt to transcend the trappings of its saccharine genre, and largely succeeds with the prescient casting of Kurt...
CORPORATE PERKS Disney later claimed no wrongdoing had occurred. But unsealed audits show that concerns were also raised about Ovitz's expensing of high-priced meals, gifts--and even a subscription to Playboy...
What do you think our executives think when you object to paying all the costs for [your daughter's] Bat Mitzvah at the House of Blues, an operation owned partly by Disney...
Michael Eisner is in the midst of trying to fend off a fierce campaign to oust him as Disney CEO. Not the best time for an old letter to emerge that Eisner wrote to former superagent Michael Ovitz, who spent an ill-fated 14 months as Disney president. It surfaced as a result of a shareholder lawsuit challenging Ovitz's $140 million severance package. Hollywood game: Who comes off worse, Eisner or Ovitz? --By Jeffrey Ressner...