Word: disneyized
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...dream town of the 1990s doesn't need Walt's domes, skyscrapers or monorails. By offering good schools, clean streets and grass around the edges, Disney is creating a fantasy world so far removed from common experience that people are amazed at the prospect...
...renters, to produce a general rubbing of elbows not seen in America since small towns went out of style. (At the lottery, there were singles, families and couples, old people and young, a few Asians, a man wearing a turban; still, it was mostly white faces in spite of Disney's efforts to advertise in the local black press.) There will be no municipal government: the sewers, water and police will be provided by the county. Meanwhile, the public spaces, just like the commercial buildings, will be owned and controlled by Disney. A homeowners' association will rule on local issues...
...restrictions is written into the sales contracts for every house. Example: no clothes on the line in any front yard. But at the same time, there will be no litter to worry about. At the recent drawing and Celebration celebration, the confetti had hardly hit the ground before a Disney confetti picker materialized to sweep...
...remake of the 1947 Cary Grant--Loretta Young comedy The Bishop's Wife, co-starring Denzel Washington, and she's at work on a gospel sound track for the film. Meanwhile, in search of projects to produce as well as star in, Houston has signed a development deal with Disney. Her first acquisition: the rights to a biography of actress Dorothy Dandridge. Says Houston: "I heard Janet Jackson wanted to play Dorothy very badly. If I feel it in my soul, I'll do it. If not, maybe I'll let Janet...
...Carnegie Hall, featuring works by Lizst, Chopin and Beethoven. Sony Classics, meanwhile, has just released a new CD, The Romantic Master, which is largely devoted to Wild's own dazzling transcriptions, among them the delightful Reminiscences of Snow White, a fantasy on Frank Churchill's music for the 1937 Disney animated film. But lest one think that Wild is all flash and no substance, his recent recording of Beethoven's thorny "Hammerklavier" Sonata, on the Chesky label, is grandly conceived and brilliantly executed, from the soulful (and lengthy) Adagio to the triumphant final Fugue, a supreme test of both fingers...