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...couple of days (he was marking the resolution of independence; we celebrate the signing of the Declaration). But regarding the guns, bonfires and illuminations, he was right on target. In typically American fashion, fireworks displays have grown passe by overuse; they embellish everything these days from baseball games to Disney movie openings. Still, there's something irresistible, and irreplaceable, about a July 4 sound-and-light show: "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting...
...names Timon, Pumbaa, Simba or Nala don't mean anything to you, then you probably don't know people who count their age in single digits. These are names many zookeepers hear every day as children gazing at meerkats, warthogs and lion cubs recall the characters from Disney's 1994 hit The Lion King. "The popularity of these animals in the last three years has been amazing," says Greg Hudson, director of the Fort Worth (Texas) Zoo. "It's great. We can take that and educate [more kids] about the social structure of those animals...
...helpful cartoon history by Stefan Kanfer, a former TIME film critic and senior editor. (The book is published by Scribner, which, oddly enough, has no cartoon division.) From the Jones, Canemaker and Kanfer works emerges a picture of the industry that might have been painted not by Disney but by Goya. It's compelling and instructive, and it ain't pretty...
...rarely knew the worth of these cartoons, artistically or financially. Even Walt, in his later years, was blinkered. The genius-boss, who in 1934 had dazzled his staff for four hours laying out his vision for Snow White, turned bitter and vindictive after a 1940 strike at the studio. Disney now coveted real estate; bored with putting fantasy kingdoms into films, he wanted to put one in Anaheim, Calif. And he thought so little of the cels (the precious units of any animated film) that he gave them away to visitors when Disneyland opened...
...himself that Rose Marie shouldn't have been spared. Perhaps this is too sunny-eyed a view of the world, but this critic firmly believes that if Michael Eisner wanted to separate a daughter from an unsuitable mate, he'd simply get the guy a job at Euro Disney...