Word: disneyism
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...Kids looking for cinematic transgression today have to get it on on the screen. Modern theaters are just boxes with movies inside. They are to the vanished grind houses what the Disney-dressed-up 42nd Street is to the old, disreputable Deuce...
...stores in the Philippines and 11 branches in California, makes McDonald's look like a funeral parlor. Its mascot is a jolly bee, and the restaurants are blindingly happy, all giant, shiny yellow blocks, as if they were designed by an architect from Legoland. Even if you gave Walt Disney all the ecstasy in the world, he would not have come up with this. America, according to Jollibee, is clearly a place of childlike optimism. Jollibee's two most popular items are called the Yumburger and the Chickenjoy. The Yumburger has a weird, plasticky dollop of French dressing...
...updating of The Nutcracker and Cinderella have been perennials of the London theater. His all-male Swan Lake was a Broadway sensation in 1998. He also brought Samuel Beckett's Play Without Words to dance life. In a more traditional mode, Bourne co-directed and co-choreographed the Disney stage musical of Mary Poppins , which started in London and came to Broadway last November. Demolishing conventions, bestriding art forms from ballet to musical comedy to film, Bourne's work isn't just highbrow or lowbrow. It's all-brow...
...Internet, though, the shelves go on and on and on. And as words, music and now video move to this new environment, the traditional economics of media are under attack. Tellingly, the most valuable media company in the world right now is not Disney or News Corp. or Time Warner (owner of Time) but Google, which helps people find stuff on those endless online shelves...
...positions (discussing what you want instead of the way you've decided to get there), developing another option (what Ury calls Plan B but Yes fans will recognize as BATNA--best alternative to a negotiated agreement) and making it easy for people to agree with you (Ury holds up Disney CEO Bob Iger as a master of letting others save face). Ury also includes ways to say no without saying no--I would rather decline than do a bad job; I have plans--which can be handy whether you're saying no to your best client or your overbearing...