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...certainly one of the more dramatic. The movie begins with Mufasa, king of the plains (NOT the jungle--the Disney people are too smart to fall for cliches here) presenting his small cub, Simba, to his assorted subjects. Elephants trumpet. The soundtrack rises in pitch. And then, the scene suddenly disappears from the screen, abruptly replaced with "THE LION KING"--blood-red, no less (more on that later...
...relationship with his father and the effect Mufasa's death has on the small cub is a prominent subtheme. Their bond carries even beyond death, and Simba's wish to make his father proud is a realistic drive. While the father-child relationship is a common element in Disney tales, this one is somehow much stronger, perhaps because the father is neither overly harsh (a la "The Little Mermaid") nor a bumbling fool ("Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin...
...conservative Pensacola and Palm Springs as well. Gays rally for rights not only in big cities but also, if more anxiously, in such places as Missoula, Montana, and Tyler, Texas. Earlier this month 20,000 gay men and women were made welcome at that icon of bourgeois family life, Disney World. Barbara Hoffman of Boston, 61, a retired, Radcliffe-educated clinical psychologist, has been "out" since 1955, when "the best we could hope for was to live quietly in our personal closets." She says, "I cannot believe how far our community has come...
...Virginia judge threw out a lawsuit by landowners and residents to stop Disney's giant historical theme park in Prince William County, Va. A grassroots group, "Protect Prince William Limited," wanted to block the prospective $650 million, "Disney's America" development west of Washington, which has drawn fire on editorial pages across the country but got an endorsement from the state's pro-business governor, Republican George Allen. The losers were even more annoyed when the judge declined to explain his action...
Cinema: The Lion King is a triumph as Disney brings back the primal emotions of its animated classics...