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...Edith Bridges of Weymouth, Mass., were wary of the hard-sell tactics used to market time-shares. But 11 years ago, Bridges, 59, an electrician, and his wife, 57, a tutor, shelled out $8,000 for one week each year in a fully equipped two-bedroom "villa" near Disney World. The Bridgeses soon learned that they had acquired a valuable currency in today's booming vacation market. Before long they were trading their place for a week's skiing at Lake Tahoe or a visit to New Orleans. "I guess I always thought there was a scheme," says Edith Bridges...
...need for dysfunction, you may be in luck. An as yet unidentified thief has stolen home videos of MICHAEL JACKSON and his two children taken last Christmas and New Year's and has been attempting to sell them to news outlets. Footage taken of the family at a Euro Disney hotel last July was also pilfered. The tapes, for which the thief is demanding a $100,000 ransom, were stolen recently from a hotel room in France. Jackson's lawyers have threatened "immediate action" against any publication tempted to publish the photos, and declared Jackson's intention to prosecute rather...
...Disney animated films are the best example of this. Disney takes short fairy tales and imbues them with character, lengthens the plot and often makes it more complex, and (unfortunately) inserts a happy ending every time. (It's only in the last decade that Disney has begun to attempt adapting novels, with varied results.) Some other examples of short tales being made into good, or at least successful, films include 2001: A Space Odyssey (expanded after the film's production into a whole novel) and The Lawnmower Man. John Campbell's short sci-fi story The Thing spawned a classic...
...major new example of the expanded short story: Sleepy Hollow. Already, director Tim Burton has distanced himself from the classic short story by Washington Irving--Irving's work was titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The plot is drastically different. In the tale, immortalized in a short Disney cartoon, Ichabod Crane is a thin, lanky schoolteacher with romantic designs on a local landowner's daughter, Katrina Van Tassel. In Crane's way is Brom Van Brunt, a big lug who frightens Crane with a story about the Headless Horseman--a rumored supernatural denizen known for his penchant for swiping...
...successfully fielded a call from her mother when she was at The Disney Store in Times Square. After quieting her friends and pretending all was normal, she successfully avoided suspicion...