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Like the Main Street that guides customers into Disney's Magic Kingdom, the convention floor today is a construct, a shell, a dim, burnished reflection of what was once reality. They may even call the roll of the states to stir old memories of exciting summer nights from long ago, much as the first notes of Earth Angel or In the Still of the Night can set middle-aged hearts beating faster...
Dole stumbled into a confounding question: What is a family movie? It's hard even for the industry to say. Certainly a lot of children have seen violent summer blockbusters like Independence Day, Twister and Mission: Impossible--movies that, while not gorefests, are hardly what Walt Disney would have envisioned as wholesome entertainment...
...thing the studios have learned is that not even kids want to see kids' movies. "They want what's slightly illicit," says David Vogel, president of Disney's family-fare division. Rather than being an enticement, the family-film label is now used sparingly. Even though Meledandri's division is called Fox Family Films, the studio won't release pictures under that banner for fear of driving audiences away...
...Hollywood's own definition of 'family' needs to change," says Meledandri. "Family films need to be thought of in the tradition of Star Wars or Indiana Jones--movies that are not geared to kids." Disney's Vogel points out that some of the most successful pictures of all time are now perceived as family films even if they didn't start out that way. Millions of kids eventually saw Jurassic Park, for example, but Universal, which released it, initially warned that young children might find it too scary. "If it had been marketed under a family label, would it have...
...impact on society, and yearn for a simpler time. But to look to government to allay those concerns is to divert it from the things it can do. While the religious right was busy with prayer in classrooms, enforced motherhood for pregnant teenagers and a boycott of Disney, Americans saw their jobs being downsized and their schools falling apart. In any event, it is hardly appropriate for Dole, in the age of real bombs, to be applauding a movie in which the White House blows up (while he's also demanding that the security barriers in front...