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...event, it would roil a very profitable business. And so last week Disney broke ranks with its media brethren and backed FCC regulation of cable--as an alternative to Congress imposing ŕ la carte offerings. (Disney's cable holdings include tamer channels like ABC Family and The Disney Channel, but its ESPN often lets profanities fly.) Some broadcast executives, meanwhile, have called for decency control over cable so that they could better compete with cable channels. The greatest hope for those who want to extend the state's power over media may be in the fact that most executives would...
...popular Gen Harwood (Hayden Panettiere), the skater Casey is studying, is training for the regional championships under her mother (Kim Cattrall), a type-A, washed-up skater herself, who projects her longtime goals onto her typically-Disney sharp-skating, sharp-witted, blonde daughter. Gen, though, would rather be eating a hamburger with her boyfriend than practicing triple-axles at 5 a.m. Who knew? Everyone knows pretty girls can’t eat burgers...
...with any Disney movie, an overarching (perhaps overbearing) theme is that of regret at dreams lost: the mothers have much of it and do not wish any upon their daughters so they end up forcing them to follow their own dreams, while inadvertently making their daughters miserable...
...motherlessness of the main characters, so familiar to viewers of Disney movies, also squeaks by without becoming cloying. Anthony has discovered that a whimpered “My mum’s dead” allows him to get candy, avoid punishment, and otherwise misbehave, a fact which he exploits throughout the film. This faux-cavalier attitude toward his mother’s death makes the moment when he finally acknowledges his pain genuinely emotional, rather than just cheaply sentimental...
...Overall, there has been more positive reaction than negative,” he said. “Copyright laws are written for companies like Time Warner and Disney instead of research libraries like Harvard. [These laws are] not aimed...