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Fast-forward to 1994. Dion, now singing in English, had covered Elvis' Can't Help Falling in Love for a Disney Channel special. Soon after, says Angelil, the Colonel called: "He says, 'I've heard that song so many times since Elvis died, and I never heard it like that. I'm a consultant for the Hilton, and she's never played Las Vegas. I want her at the Hilton.'" Angelil told the Colonel that Dion's American career was just taking off and that she wasn't ready for Vegas. "He said, 'I respect that, but this girl could...
...sell millions of copies as a novel. H2G2, as the entire opus is now known, grew into a multibook series, a stage play, a TV adaptation, a video game, comic books, a website and even a towel (a key H2G2,plot item). Adams fan clubs flourish, and Disney has reportedly dusted off plans for a movie based on Arthur Dent's interstellar wanderings. But as M.J. Simpson notes in his minutely detailed Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Hodder & Stoughton; 393 pages), the man commonly credited with inventing the genre of humorous science fiction was a tragic figure with...
Bolger’s life story is remarkable enough—it was featured on “Dateline” and the “Today Show,” as well as newspapers in Detroit and Philadelphia. It also caught the eye of Disney, whom he minimizes as “just one of a number of prominent folks who wanted to make a movie of my life...
After my first year playing in elementary school, I started private lessons and found through music a world so much bigger than my small Connecticut town. Auditions took me as an eleven-year-old to New York City and then to California to play in the Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra, where I first felt the thrill of leading a section and playing ensemble music that mimicked my parents’ classical records. The sound was almost more exciting to me than the fact that our concert would be nationally televised on the Disney channel...
...Without MITES I wouldn’t have even considered Harvard or any institution in the Cambridge area,” said Alliah D. Agostini ’04, who attended the program during the summer of 1999. “It just seemed unachievable, [a] mythical school, Disney material...