Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Citizens of Eugene, Oregon, may soon be treated to the spectacle of two movie studios tripping over each other. This summer Disney and Warner plan to shoot competing versions of Pre, the tale of legendary Olympic runner STEVE PREFONTAINE, far left, who died in a 1975 car crash at age 24. Disney, which is spending about $7 million, had the edge initially, shooting crowd scenes last year. But script rewrites slowed the pace. Warner, with $25 million budgeted, has surged ahead, reserving the college track where Prefontaine ran. Filming could begin in June. Both sides had casting setbacks. Warner wanted...
...beloved figures--Pamela Lyndon Travers (known to her fans as "P.L.")--the papers seemed to reflect another kind of disillusion. This time, it was a thinly veiled disappointment that the creator of Mary Poppins should have proved less saccharine than the character portrayed by Julie Andrews in the Walt Disney movie...
...course, Disney's Mary Poppins and the character in the Travers books are two entirely different beings. The latter is somewhat fierce, somewhat formidable and perennially unfair. The point about the Mary Poppins of the books is that although wonderful things begin to happen when she arrives, she's not very nice to be around...
Such an ad-lib might have been only mildly sociopathic for Grant--or, with a different target, for Howard Stern or Don Imus. But WABC is owned by Capital Cities/ABC, which is owned by Disney, a company sensitive to image befoulers and potential boycotts. After the Brown joke, Jesse Jackson wrote Disney president Michael Ovitz urging Grant's swift dismissal. Ovitz replied that "we have already determined how we will handle the situation." The next day, before air time, Grant was told he was through...
...Disney and ABC got rid of a nuisance, but Grant may be the real winner. When he returns to New York radio, as he surely will, he can blame the p.c. media for his firing. The rabid sorehead will be a professional martyr...