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...Hollywood, shrivel in the summer. Last summer's "serious" hit, Boyz N the Hood, made a lot of money on a weenie budget but, judging from recent events, didn't have much impact on the residents of South Central Los Angeles, where the film was set and shot. Says Disney's movie boss Jeffrey Katzenberg: "This is a time of trouble and concern, yet I am also optimistic. Hollywood can make movies that can speak to the issues we must now confront. We can also offer two hours of fun and escape from those very pressures that must now take...
...here comes Disney with Encino Man (May 22), in which MTV Valley Dude Pauly Shore digs up a frozen caveman, and Sister Act (May 29), with Whoopi Goldberg taking refuge from the mob in Maggie Smith's convent. Encino Man is already touted as "the Wayne's World of summer," and that's fine with Katzenberg, who describes his mostly low-budget summer slate as "the anti- 800-lb.-gorilla school of film-making." Disney's only expensive movie is, of course, a sequel: Honey, I Blew...
Disneyland opened in 1955, at the dawn of the last great Age of World's Fairs, and Disney World opened in 1971, at its close. Neither date is a coincidence: the existence of Disney theme parks on three continents has diminished, if not spoiled, the once-in-a-lifetime thrill of international expositions. Florida's Disney World in particular is a world's fair manque, complete with Utopian subtext, we're-in-business-to-help-people corporate pavilions and a giant sphere; and now, alas, Expo '92 may be experienced as something of an imitation. "It's sort of like...
...Disney parks is a function of their homogenized high quality, their benign totalitarianism. Expo '92, on the other hand, has real aesthetic lows and real highs, jewels, junk, surprises, quirks, genuine diversity. Disney parks won't serve wine or beer, and operatives shut the gates tight by 9 on weekdays. In Seville the fair stays open until 4 a.m., night after bibulous night. Children may not have as much fun at Expo '92 as they will at Euro Disney, but in Seville the hubbub is heartening and authentic, full of life as well as production values...
Just when you thought that the cartoon characters were the only ones left who were allowed to burst into song, along comes Newsies, an old style, live-action musical from Disney. Yet if Newsies is any indication, it would probably be a better idea for Disney to leave the singing to cartoon characters. For the film's attempt to fuse the spirit of classic MGM musicals with a message about workers' solidarity hardly goes beyond the limits of innocent...