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DIED. Iwao Takamoto, 81, Japanese-American animator who created the canine cartoon sleuth Scooby-Doo; in Los Angeles. Interned with his family in California during World War II, Takamoto first learned illustration from his fellow detainees. After the war, he apprenticed at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on films that included Cinderella and Peter Pan. In 1961 he joined Hanna-Barbera, where he designed characters for Scooby-Doo (whose name Takamoto took from a scat line in the Frank Sinatra song Strangers in the Night) as well as for TV cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons...
When a teenager named Izzy gives up boxing to join a jump rope team in Jump In!, a Disney Channel original movie debuting January 12, his classmates taunt him for taking up a playground pastime made popular by little girls. Marcus Taylor, who taught lead actor Corbin Bleu his rope-skipping skills for the film, says the same thing used to happen to him while he was growing up. "I got teased all the time when I was younger," says Taylor, 20, who went on to become a world champion rope jumper in 2004. Now when people poke...
...Kelsy Moe, 22, became the female champion last year for moves such as the "double under frog" and "triple under," in which she performs handstands and jumps while twirling the rope around her body up to three times before her feet finally hit the ground. In addition to the Disney movie, which will air six times over the next five weeks, ESPN2 will broadcast the national championships on January 14 and February 13th, and the Discovery Channel is planning to air a documentary called Double Time, which focuses on two top double dutch teams, later this year...
...threequels: everybody's fee goes up, again. "We always want to get paid more," Bruckheimer says. "That's understandable." And no one's salary rockets higher than the stars'. "They are the face of their franchises," Pandya says. "Whatever compensation Johnny Depp gets, he's a bargain for Disney." The leads also lend emotional continuity to the new episodes. "I really don't think you can change the actors," says Brett Ratner, director of the Rush Hour films. "Without Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, Rush Hour 3 would not exist. There's no Jet Li-- Chris Rock version...
...Treb used to work in Special Events (party designing) at Disney theme parks, and the Times Square Alliance has learned a lot about crowd control from the Mouse House. Since an attraction at the Magic Kingdom typically entails standing in line for a half hour or more before four minutes of the ride, Disney keeps the customers from getting too restless and ornery with a "pre-show" of filmed or live infotainment...