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Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Walt Disney...
Keith Haring once said that Mickey Mouse is "ultimately a symbol of America more than anything else." Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Walt Disney is the manifestation of that idea. The show focuses on Haring, who was inspired by Walt Disney's and Andy Warhol's use of popular images and mass production...
...creation of Mickey Mouse in 1928 marked the entry of art into the mainstream of everyday life. The exhibition spans the history of the Walt Disney Company, from "Steamboat Willie" (the first animated film to feature Mickey Mouse and a synchronized soundtrack) to "The Prince and the Pauper," Disney's 1990 animation short. The exhibit includes preliminary drawings, movie posters, and frames of celluloid animation film ("cells"). The sequence of drawings for "The Prince and the Pauper" includes a story sketch, which captures the mood of the story; rough drawings of the extreme points of the character's movements; "clean...
...analysis of Sleeping with the Enemy: an "indictment of conventional wedlock as a cruel and unhealthy arrangement." Well, it's not; it is a melodrama about wife abuse -- a social disorder Hollywood didn't invent. Medved, determined to alienate even his core audience of people who think Disney cartoon features are innocuous entertainment, proclaims that The Little Mermaid "effectively encouraged children to disregard the values and opinions of their parents." Well, Disney has been traumatizing kids for half a century. When Bambi's mother died, kids screamed in horror...
Such as Sister Act. Waiting for Whoopi's dangerous-to-your-health mouth to fulminate is the main plot element -- no, the sole plot element -- of this Disney no-brainer, one of those renegade-hides-out-with-cute -nuns movies that + Hollywood makes every three years. So Sister Act (which has grossed $125 million to date) has a touch of class it doesn't really deserve. So do Clara's Heart, Jumpin' Jack Flash and Ghost (for which Goldberg got the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, though she is firm in announcing that she's an actor, and never mind...