Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jeffrey Katzenberg's motives for creating the movie The Prince of Egypt must be judged over time [COVER, Dec. 14]. Was it Katzenberg or others at Disney who had the Midas touch for creating successful animated films? Assessing the box-office appeal of Prince of Egypt is a practical way of answering that question. Perhaps Katzenberg's contribution to improved understanding of the Pentateuch would be to allocate a portion of this film's profits to subsidizing independent scholarly research into the Old Testament characters. The Prince of Egypt's expected income would hardly be dented by funding a substantial...
...review of the movie, Richard Corliss said it "sometimes looks starched, stodgy," and told readers that "any sort of irreverence would be out of place in this by-the-Book rendition" of the Old Testament. Maybe The Prince of Egypt does not fit the Disney mold. However, a story dealing with mass slavery, violence and pestilence does not lend itself to comedy. Films like this one give me hope. The time has come to honor children as an audience capable of understanding things beyond the comprehension of misguided reviewers. SARA A. SCOTT Laconia...
...Network battles one of its unions and spikes story critical of parent Disney...
...piece about my father Walt Disney, Richard Schickel let his personal animus toward him overpower any objectivity. What is supposed to be biography is diatribe. Schickel put a sinister spin on every aspect of my father's life. It would have been impossible for the kind of man that Schickel portrays to create and produce the body of work that bears my father's name and imprint. No darkly driven, Scrooge-like character could have conceived those films, TV shows and amusement parks. Schickel should lighten up and undertake some serious research on this man, or he should leave...
Having Richard Schickel write about Walt Disney is the equivalent of having the wicked stepmother critique Cinderella. What were you expecting from a noted anti-Disney author like Schickel? Disney, a man who made us laugh, who was called "Uncle" by generations of American children, who built an empire with his brother and revolutionized corporate America (Where would the 1990s be without synergy or branding?), deserved better. JOSH P. EDWARDS Naples, Maine