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...wouldn't be the Jackson family without sniping from LaToya, who first intimated that her brother might be faking it but, on hearing the doctors' reports, reversed herself. The concert was postponed, and Jackson's condition was improving, thanks clearly in part to the posters of Shirley Temple, Walt Disney and Topo Gigio that were brought to his room. Meanwhile, the besieged hospital set up a hotline with a taped message detailing Jackson's condition, updated daily and offering an opportunity for the word stable to be used in describing...
...body, the Money Train incident reignited a debate about whether violence on the screen inspires the real thing. It's a debate that crops up regularly, most recently over the firebug antics on the MTV cartoon show Beavis and Butt-head and the traffic-dodging pranks in Disney's 1993 film The Program. This time, however, the filmmakers appear to have been warned. Jack Lusk, senior vice president in charge of movie permits for New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority, says the MTA cooperated with the filming, but not with the token-booth scenes. "We objected to the torching...
...music last May, Dole did not return a $15,000 PAC contribution from the company. He also invited Time Warner chairman and CEO Gerald Levin to a recent $1,000-a-plate fund raiser at the Beverly Hills Hotel. (Levin did not attend.) And after grabbing headlines for condemning Disney's Miramax Films for the movie Priest and making a huge to-do over selling $15,000 worth of his wife's Disney stock in protest, Dole took a $4,000 contribution from the company in August. Last year Dole's Campaign America fund took in $79,000 from...
...DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS By Charles Solomon (Hyperion; $40). As productive as the studio was during Walt Disney's life (he died in 1966), many projects dear to his heart never made it to the screen. This book is a reverie on an art form whose possibilities were still being explored. The stars are not the fabled animators but the conceptual artists whose work they drew on. Here is Mickey way back when he was a rodent outlaw; drenching pastels of fairyland by Sylvia Holland; a surreal grand piano with a fierce trail of tyrannical music hovering above...
...chicken feather on a stick, and the young John Cage as an assistant, he moved exposure by exposure through a film whose vigor belies none of this inch-work. His use of symphony music and the theatrical quality of his compositions lend his short films the feel of Disney's famous concert feature, "Fantasia," which he worked...