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...Walt Disney Pictures...
...Disney's "Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill" is not a cartoon. But don't let that turn you off of this worthwhile adventure. It's 1905, somewhere in the American West, and Daniel Hackett (Nick Stahl) is chafing against life on his family's farm. "I hate this farm! It's just a dried-up, miserable piece of land!" he yells to his father, Jonas (Stephen Lang, looking like he just wandered in from a Biblical movie...
Half a world away, the sinking dollar had a very different impact on vacation-bound Germans. They jammed foreign-exchange counters from Bonn to Berlin in search of greenbacks to spend at U.S. destinations such as Disney World in Florida or ski resorts in Colorado. Latecomers found banks sold out of dollars and were advised to try again in several days. That was not good enough for determined folk in Munich, who roamed from bank to bank in the hope of laying hands on the suddenly scarce currency...
...hundreds of songs, sold albums in the hundred millions, cavorted onstage in tuxes and plumes, dared to announce his bisexuality, endured rehab for alcoholism, cocaine addiction, bulimia. Nothing human was alien to him. But as he began the task of composing melodies to Tim Rice's words for the Disney animated adventure, John wondered whether he'd sunk too low. "I sat there with a line of lyrics that began, 'When I was a young warthog ... ' and I thought, 'Has it come to this...
...brimming with good tunes. This month John resumes his smash series of concerts with Billy Joel. Twelve of his old albums are about to be issued in remastered editions, with previously unreleased songs. He and Rice will soon begin writing the score for a new version of Aida, which Disney is planning to bring to Broadway. And he's working on an animated film version of Belfast, a haunting and hopeful song about the Irish troubles that is the high point of his new album...