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...Disney Corporation is like that one unbelievably popular girl we all knew in junior high. She's cute and adorable in many ways but increasingly irritating as you get to know her. Plus, most of her comments and actions lack any kind of substance whatsoever--they're just re-hashings of things she's already said and done. Once you figure all this out, you wonder how long it's going to take before other people realize her charade and call her on it. Surprisingly, no one may ever notice, leaving you wondering if you should just go back...
...even though the skateboard faithful loathe the mainstream hype, they have grudgingly accepted the event. It is, after all, the only venue where skateboarders, banned from their towns' streets, can watch their heroes sign autographs on ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC, like ESPN, is owned by Disney). "Now when I tell people I'm a professional skateboarder, they don't say, 'There's no such thing.' Instead they say, 'Oh, are you in the X-Games?'" says Tony Hawk, 30, the world's best skateboarder...
...Disney's animated epic Mulan, which opened last week, has its Chinese heroine donning male military drag, ostensibly to save her disabled father from being conscripted for certain death in a war against invaders. But the movie's point is to show that Mulan is as valuable as any boy. Or as the film goes on to demonstrate, that she can do something her father cannot: bury a horde of enemy Huns under tons of snow. You go, girl! It's the perfect way for Disney to do Joan of Arc without having the heroine burned at the stake...
...also uses her brain," says Coats. "We tried really hard to balance her feminine and masculine side." Mulan is more complex than your average action figure. For example, she isn't afraid to hug the Emperor in a burst of emotion. Still, it's noteworthy that one of Disney's most vigorous heroines literally has to disguise herself as a boy. Says Karlyn: "We're beginning to think about heroism in a female way. But we don't have narratives or genres in which we can comfortably fit strong female protagonists...