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...John Hughes. Home Alone alone stoked the current PG trend. "You could say it helped expose the sheer size of this market," Hughes says modestly. It cost $18 million and grossed $285 million in North America. And box office is just the beginning. Certain G or PG films -- Disney cartoons, for example -- can make zillions more in the video sell-through market...
HEALTH-CARE ALLIANCES. The Clinton plan envisions huge groupings of buyers -- patients, companies, insurers -- organizing to bargain with networks of sellers -- doctors, hospitals, nursing homes -- over service and prices. In four years of existence, the Central Florida Health Care Coalition, a grouping of major employers including Walt Disney, Martin Marietta and General Mills, has nagged local hospitals into many cost-cutting procedures. A newly enacted Minnesota law extends the idea by encouraging formation of integrated service networks. ISNs will be nonprofit organizations set up by groups of doctors and hospitals, or insurance companies, or employers, or governmental subdivisions, or just...
...carnival sideshow, where the freaks eat the gawkers. That is pretty much how Michael Crichton sketched the old man in the novel Jurassic Park. But the Hammond played by Richard Attenborough in Steven Spielberg's movie version is another fellow altogether; the director calls him "a cross between Walt Disney and Ross Perot." Hammond is certainly a visionary, a fabulous showman, an enthusiast, an emperor of ice cream, a kid with a great new toy. "Top of the line!" he chirps. "Spared no expense!" Why, he might be Spielberg as a foxy grandpa...
...daughter made that declaration. We thought we were doing everything right to develop her self-esteem and positive racial identity. We overloaded her toy box with black dolls. We carefully monitored the racial content of TV shows and videos, ruling out Song of the South and Dumbo, two classic Disney movies marred by demeaning black stereotypes. But we saw no harm in Pinocchio, which seemed as racially benign as Sesame Street or Barney, and a good deal more engaging. Yet now our daughter was saying she wanted to be white, to be like the puppet who becomes a real...
...throaty flute chants an Indian melody in "Images of India," while a gong and plucked violin strings give us a good show-tune conception of China. Venturing onto what the program tells us is "Main Street, U.S.A." (another Disney reference), the number "Only One Can Be the Best" sounds like it's being played by an unsynchronized high school band--we wonder if this sound characterizes smalltown America. In an impressive conclusion, Peters presents a charming ballad and Irish jig ("Chasin' the Rainbow"), beautifully sung by the poor Irish immigrant Maureen (Wynne Love). It is exciting to know that...