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...platinum package. Statue-still onstage, whispering her lyrics like postcoital pillow talk, Lee gave a guilty-secret glow to the blandest ballads. By the mid-'40s she was a pop star and a rare singer-songwriter (It's a Good Day, Manana); in 1955 she composed songs for Disney's Lady and the Tramp and 36 years later won a suit for royalties on video sales of the film. A sultry jazz minimalist, Lee prevailed in the first age of rock with tunes that exuded steam (Fever), defiance (I Am Woman) and blithe anhedonia (Is That All There...
...Half Vatican, half Disney World, the Holy See is a particularly fitting home for Caodaism, a kaleidoscopic faith that combines all the major world religions and counts Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin among its saints. Since its recognition by Vietnam's communist government in 1997, Caodaism has flourished, and now tourists flock to its mecca in Tay Ninh province, about 90 kilometers northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate...
...business of utility concealment has attracted only a dozen or so players. Industry leader Larson Camouflage, whose parent company in Tucson, Ariz., has spent decades building fake habitats for such clients as Disney World and the Bronx Zoo, developed the first "tree" tower in 1992. TeleFlage founder Nancy Tuggle got into the business after serving on a planning board in a San Diego suburb that nixed a proposed tower in someone's backyard. She directed PacBell to a nearby school and six years later is forming a coalition of camouflagers to help companies expand their networks by educating the public...
...Disney's new animated feature, Treasure Planet, is rated PG not so much to scare away little kids (nothing gamy here) as to alert teenage boys that there's enough gaudy action in the classic cartoon format to keep them happy. This space-traveler version of Treasure Island--replete with flying galleons and intergalactic pirates--splashes lavish special effects on a colorful palette without forfeiting attention to character detail. Example: the movie's protean robot as voiced by Martin Short is the most complex, delirious cartoon sideman since Robin Williams' Genie in Aladdin. Directors Ron Clements and John Musker...
...best-selling Artemis Fowl books, a hot contender for the post--Harry Potter sweepstakes, and the company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British writer Jonathan Stroud. Not to be outdone, Disney reportedly paid nearly $8 million for the film, theme-park and multimedia rights to Clive Barker's fantasy novel Abarat...