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When Walt Disney released its animated version of "Beauty and the Beast" in 1991, the moviegoing public was enchanted. The film was a box office success and critics unanimously praised Disney for its originality and innovation. Yet while the Disney version had undeniable charm, behind it stood the specter of an immensely superior film, Jean Cocteau's 1946 "La Belle et la Bete...
...Belle et la Bete" remains the definitive film adaptation of the familiar story, an extraordinary and profoundly influential movie. Disney, in fact, "borrowed" the look and many other aspects of its cartoon from Cocteau's film. To see Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" is to see why movies were invented. Cocteau's oneiric masterpiece is a perfect demonstration of what movies can give us that other media can't; it is a dream that seizes us and pulls us into a world that operates under its own logic. We find ourselves in a landscape where beauty seems...
HOLLYWOOD, THAT HOTBED OF LIBERALISM, HAS VOICED PLENty of humane sentiment over the plight of inner-city Los Angeles residents since last year's riots. But at least three major studios -- Disney, Universal and Fox -- do not recognize MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY. Says a spokesman for MCA, the parent company of Universal: "This corporation has made the decision that Martin Luther King Day is not a holiday...
...teem with noise, dirt and crowds, Singapore is orderly, regimented, well-planned -- and rather boring. With low pollution, lush tropical greenery, a mix of modern skyscrapers and colonial-era buildings, the city resembles a clean and efficient theme park; even the subway stations are as spotless and shiny as Disney World. There are no traffic jams, even during rush hours. The multiracial population -- 78% Chinese, 14% Malay, 7% Indian -- uses English widely...
...billion in tickets purchased made 1992 one of Hollywood's best years ever. The downside is that ticket prices were generally higher. Translation: fewer tickets sold. Small wonder, considering such predictable bombs as Far and Away (Cruise with a dreadful Irish accent in 19th century Oklahoma) and Newsies (Disney's appalling revival of the movie-musical) and surprising failures like The Distinguished Gentleman, featuring Eddie Murphy in a tailor- made role as a corrupt Congressman. Apparently his biggest fans won't accept him as anything but a sassy inner-city cop named Axel Foley...