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...DOCTOR IN MARYLAND HAS ONE CLIMBING his chimney. Another lurks in the baggage area at the new Denver airport. A fearsome specimen keeps watch over the swimming pool of Court TV's Arthur Miller. A grotesque gaggle stars on its own Disney animated TV series. They're gargoyles--and for reasons no one can quite fathom they've become the hottest commodity to emerge from the Middle Ages since Gregorian chant. Though their scary Gothic ancestors patrolled the cathedrals of Europe, serving double duty as protectors from evil and divertors of rainwater, today's gargoyles are more likely to turn...
...shows, records, toys and computer software, has no film studio or recording studio, no products--indeed, no pedigree but its owners' resumes. No problem either, for Spielberg is the director of Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park; Katzenberg supervised the glorious revival of animated features while at the Walt Disney Co.; and Geffen has made stars of the Eagles, Guns N' Roses and Nirvana on records, Tom Cruise in movies and some singing cats on Broadway. So the brand name SKG had a certain allure for investors. Come on in, the Dream team said, and give us $2 billion. Right...
...once Disney has mostly succeeded in the game of subtlety, addressing tensions between the environment and industry. The three tall tale-ers have been living outside of modern progress. They stand bewildered in the face of encroaching industrialization. When Pecos hears about inventions like the telegraph and the light bulb, he is incredulous. "You're telling me a tall tale," he says to Daniel. With horror, Paul and John try to imagine a world run by machines...
...Tall Tale" is a surprisingly good live-action Disney movie. It incorporates several different themes, and its characters are fairly complex and wellplayed. The movie's greatest weakness is the father-son story line. The portrayal of Daniel's relationship with his father is strained (mostly by Lang's poor acting) and cliched. You may want to come in late and miss the first 20 minutes, which lay out the frame-work for the movie but fail to lend new life to an old theme...
...calls this the "De Niro-ization' of culture...Migratory shifts back and forth from the real to the simulacrum [that] will calibrate the rest of history." "The Mary Poppins Kidnapping" pokes fun at the over-sensitive parents who worry that all forms of media, even the innocuous products of Disney, are dangerous influences on the impressionable minds of their children...