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...sons of TV-friendly Manhattan media professionals, but neither James nor Everett has ever watched Saturday-morning cartoons. "This is family time," explains Everett's mom Priscilla Glover, "one of the few times during the week we can all be together. Everett knows he can watch the Disney Channel whenever he wants, so he doesn't beg to glue himself to the TV on the weekends. He doesn't even know what he is missing...
...Disney usually releases an animated feature for the holiday season, but this year the studio has a live-action remake of a cartoon classic, 101 Dalmatians, starring Glenn Close as the dognapping Cruella DeVil. Warner Bros. steps into the vacated slot with Space Jam, a $90 million mix of animation and live action that teams two pop-culture potentates, Michael ("Air") Jordan and Bugs ("Hare") Bunny...
...agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts. There are the requisite inside jokes involving butt-kissing (Daffy plants a smooch on his own ducktail, to which the WB logo has been affixed) and Disney-dissing (when Daffy suggests that the good guys? squad should be called The Ducks, Bugs ripostes, "What kind of a Mickey Mouse organization would name their team The Ducks?"). Bill Murray is on hand for a brief master display of slapdash comedy. But "Space Jam, directed by Joe Pytka...
Barbie may not be everyone's favorite companion--detractors love to hate her plastic perfection--but the fashion doll with the impossible figure has long been the most popular girl at Mattel. The world's No. 1 toymaker, whose products range from Fisher-Price infant and preschool toys to Disney-licensed characters, gets more than one-third of its nearly $4 billion in sales from the 11 1/2-in.-tall mannequin. Now Barbie, who at age 37 has become the best-selling girls' brand ever, is poised to strut into, and perhaps change forever, the male-dominated world of multimedia software...
...come through a painful and ugly ordeal. On 60 Minutes last September, Jewell's mother described how investigators carted away the contents of her home. "They took Richard's guns...Then they took all of my Tupperware. I mean, every piece of Tupperware. They took 22 of my Walt Disney tapes." A neighbor, Mia Brown, says Richard sat on the stairs outside the apartment during the search "in just a T shirt and some shorts, looking so depressed and hurt. He just really looked pitiful." He couldn't find a job with the suspicions hanging over him, couldn't even...