Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...price will drop--have been furiously buying back shares in recent months to cut their losses as the stock goes up. But such panicky buying only serves to raise prices higher still. So do hopes that a FORTUNE 500 giant will pour big bucks into an Internet company. Disney did just that last month when it acquired a 43% stake in InfoSeek, the third largest Internet search engine, in a widely watched transaction that valued Infoseek at more than $1 billion...
...homes last week: 70,000 people fleeing inland along hurricane evacuation routes from flames that have eaten away at the state since Memorial Day. The Pepsi 400 NASCAR race in Daytona Beach was canceled because of low visibility. The fires got within 50 miles of the Magic Kingdom, but Disney World was out of danger at week's end. More than 320,000 acres have burned since May 25. Last week the fires forced the closure of some 200 miles of I-95, Florida's main artery...
...DISNEY CHANNEL Compared with its other millennium-ready operations, Disney's network is Frontierland. The programming is filled with middling cartoons, Disney movies and, for no apparent reason, daily back-to-back repeats of Growing Pains. But the whole Mickey Rooney "Let's put on a network" concept pays off in Bug Juice. It's a Real World treatment of 12-to-15-year-olds away at camp. Whereas MTV's show gets mired in the inconsequential whining of twentysomethings ("I can't believe you just stuck your finger in the peanut butter, dude!"), the torture of a 13-year...
Another approach is Disney's Internet Guide, a preselected list of family-safe websites similar to Yahoo's Yahooligans. Since the pool of acceptable sites is limited, surfing here is a bit like going to the children's library. It also suffers from weird glitches. In testing, every time I typed in a potentially objectionable word, it retrieved a transcript of a (tame) interview between two of my favorite writers, Martin Amis and Will Self. That's a bug I could live with...
...suspects have been indicted and no grand jury impaneled, but ABC is encouraging development of a TV movie based on the JONBENET RAMSEY murder case. Knowledgeable sources say execs at the Disney-owned network have been considering a prime-time docudrama offering a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Ramsey family. "It would look at an American tragedy without getting into significant aspects of the ongoing investigation," remarks a participant. A script should be finished by late July, with the narrative focusing on JonBenet's life rather than the mystery surrounding her death or the subsequent legal wrangles. No other...