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...can’t afford my life,” said Nasrin Akther, 21, who operates a sewing machine for a Disney contractor and is not related to Janu...

Author: By Maggie Morgan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Sweatshop’ Workers Tell of Poverty | 11/13/2001 | See Source »

...works for had planned to celebrate its 10th anniversary. After the U.S. attacks, the company canceled the trip. So Kawaguchi was making it up to his disappointed wife, an events M.C., and their two toddlers with an outing to Disneyland. At the gate, though, Hanako looks a little nervous. "Disney is American, after all," she frets. "Am I worrying too much if I think this too could be a target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel Watch: In Japan Today, There's No Place Like Home | 11/11/2001 | See Source »

...product of this collaboration helmed by director Pete Docter and executive director John Lasseter (the respective comedic visionary and honorary Oscar-winner behind both sensational Toy Stories) is a hilarious expose of boogeymen and other things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, animated with classic Disney style mixed with the best of Tim Burton. It’s Beauty and the Beast meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a quirky film that features first-class entertainment...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The (Un)usual Suspects | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...devoted) movie buffs will be able to recognize. Toy Story nostalgics will cheer at elements of the Toy Story 2 airport scenes—absolutely no one can make animated chase sequences as comically exciting and inventive as Lasseter and Co., who also manage to pay tribute to Disney movies galore. This distinctive combination of whimsy and wit defines a distinctive way of filmmaking—what I like to think of as the “Pixar genre...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The (Un)usual Suspects | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

Antz may have been an ironic and biting take on the modern workforce; Shrek may have been a refreshing anti-fairy tale that refused to follow the now-humdrum Disney movie formula. But for sheer imagination and consistent superb quality, nobody can touch Pixar’s phenomenal production company, which can charm laughs and approval even from a thing as deadly as a human child. If bedroom closet doors serve as portals between the monstrous and the mortal, Pixar movies serve as portals between reality and virtual reality. With the release date of Monsters, Inc. moved up from...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The (Un)usual Suspects | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

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