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...snapped up Madeline ensembles by the handful, though Cleopatra, Xena and Jasmine costumes vied for first place as well, at least according to Jean, manager of Broadway Costumes. Phoebe Huth (age 5, daughter of John Huth, Professor of Physics) said she planned to dress up as the mermaid of Disney fame since, as she put it, "I like Awiel." Her getup: "It has spawkles all over it. It looks like it's silver in the middle and it's a dwess and it's gween on the bottom to look like a mewmaid. And I'm going to paint...
Zach Busch, 4, is planning to go as King Neptune and his sister, 18-month-old Lelia, will accompany him as Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid...
...some resentment. For several years, RILEY WESTON, a 32-year-old divorced actress and screenwriter, has been passing herself off as a 19-year-old, originally to get good roles and later to promote herself as a writing wunderkind. She successfully fooled her agent, the press, her colleagues and Disney, which recently signed her to a six-figure deal. Her secret was discovered last week when someone tipped off Entertainment Tonight that Weston, who wrote and guest-starred in an episode of the WB network's teen drama Felicity, may be a better actress than anyone thought. She says...
...course, it is promotion--in part. Why should the idea of starting an art collection in Vegas seem so odd? Basically because Las Vegas--the Disney World of terminal public greed--is a city in which every cultural citation is fake, so that the real thing feels out of place. The city is built on simulation, quotation, weird unconvincing displacements, in which cultural icons are endlessly but never convincingly quoted. Here is the Luxor Hotel, that huge silly pyramid with its plaster Anubises and fiber-glass Amon-Ras, its cavernous interior housing a facsimile of the Manhattan skyline. Here, under...
Last week DAVID WESTIN, chairman of ABC News, killed a 20/20 news story critical of ABC's parent, the Walt Disney Co. The network said, "We were looking into a possible story concerning theme parks, which would have included, among others, Disney. A draft story was submitted that did not work." Indeed, the submitted story did mention other Orlando, Fla., parks, noting that theme parks tend to attract child molesters who seek to work at them. But the report singled out Disney as less responsive than other park operators to the problem. According to an ABC source familiar with...