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Later in the week, Dole's wife Libby announced that she would be selling more than $15,000 in Walt Disney stock after learning that Disney, through its subsidiary Miramax, is the distributor of Priest. The controversial film, which her husband had already denounced several weeks ago, depicts a gay clergyman and a sexually active straight one. And coming soon from Miramax is Kids, a raw depiction of a sex-obsessed, drug-bleary day in the life of some New York City teens. It's the sort of thing Mickey Mouse would have to peek at through trembling white-gloved...
Some media execs claim there isn't much that companies can do to restrain artists once they have them on their rosters. "Artists make records, not record companies,'' says David Geffen, the film and record producer who is now one-third of DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. "No record company tells them what to record...
Every work of popular art is political, says TIME critic Richard Corliss, and the good ones are more than that. "Pocahontas," a handsome, deeply-felt animated Disney musical, is a good one. Though the film has drawn fire from critics who say it is not historically accurate, and praise from others for its sympathetic portrayal of American Indians, both sides are missing the point. It's just a cartoon, for gosh sakes, a familiar boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story. And a well done story at that, says Corliss, "a film romance that earns a place...
Rage-to-riches stories are not as common as we would like to believe. No matter how many "Mighty Duck" movies Disney puts out or how many times one watches "The Natural," it is quite rare for a cellar-dweller to rocket to the top of the standings...
...past, graduates of this school considered two options after their graduation: to preach or to profess. Today, the most coveted job in Harvard's spring recruiting is at Walt Disney Company, or second best, the NBA. For us, piety emanates not from Jerusalem, the Vatican, Mecca, Kyoto or Banares. It's Los Angeles. The celebration of banality found in Los Angeles carries over to Harvard. We throw ourselves into the gorge...