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...true CEO, known within the company as T.K. The moment he stepped aside last week, the company shut itself up more securely than a city-state under siege, leaving observers jostling to deliver the most ironic epigram. "There were rumors not so long ago of Yahoo buying Disney," offered Jupiter senior analyst Aram Sinnreich. "Now they'd be lucky if Disney buys them." The company, once worth $134 billion, is now valued at less than $10 billion...
That The Pitchfork Disney, which played last weekend in the Loeb Experimental Theater, presents two exceptions to the rule is thus an understandably unnerving prospect. The play takes as its protagonists Presley and Haley Stray (Matthew D. Johnson ’02 and Catherine B. Gowl ’02), two 28-year-old siblings stuck in a permanent childhood. Gowl’s Haley is the first to grab the audience’s attention, shifting back and forth between petty child and fussy matron in a fine schizophrenic act. The production yields no funnier image than the pajama...
...Blue Velvet taught us anything, it was that releasing new, nasty blood into a population of relative innocents can yield horribly strange and potentially traumatic events. In The Pitchfork Disney, the new blood takes the form of the smooth-voiced and sardonic Cosmo Disney (Thomas H. Price ’02), who works as one half of a two-man freak show. Decked out in a black tuxedo, ordinary save for a flamboyant red coat, Disney proceeds to intimidate the portly, oft-timid Presley in a lengthy, riveting sequence of interplay. Price, for a good while, is sublime, manipulating Presley?...
...when you get right down to it, the greatest flaw in this staging of The Pitchfork Disney is The Pitchfork Disney itself. The cast and crew find this problem to be largely surmountable, making it an off-beat and often disturbing success...
...none of these categories appeals to you, look to classic fare, from older Disney movies to true classics like Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers. After all, marketing techniques may come and go, but Groucho endures forever...