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...many ways can crybabies parse shame and blame? In San Francisco last month, a motley flock turned out to picket the classic Disney movie Fantasia. One man complained that the spooky Night on Bald Mountain scene had terrified his child. Members of an organization called Dieters United objected to the tutu-clad hippos frolicking to the music of Dance of the Hours; the protesters felt the sequence ridiculed fat people. Conservationists were appalled at the waste of water in Sorcerer's Apprentice. Fundamentalist Christians bewailed ) the depiction of evolution in Rite of Spring. Antidrug forces suspected something subliminally prodrug...
...VOODOO (Disney) An innocent middle-class family returns from vacation in Jamaica with a voodoo witch doctor who turns New York upside down with his bag of tricks...
...August. Here the sit-in movement will be commemorated by four mannequins seated at a Southern lunch counter as the wall behind them broadcasts footage of the taunts and attacks of an actual white segregationist mob. Will these exhibits be inspiring, living history or a parody of the Disney style? What is one to make of a museum whose board chairman, Tennessee Circuit Judge D'Army Bailey, says seriously that "I wanted not only sirens and barking dogs, but I even envisioned a whiff of tear...
...Disney has a reputation among architects (as among filmmakers) for tightfistedness and micromanagement. On each project Eisner is brought in five times to review the plans, approving masonry textures, paint colors and light fixtures. One reason the chairman says he meddles more in the design of a hotel than he does, for instance, in the production of The Marrying Man is that "movies go away, but buildings stand as monuments to your bad taste." Plus he thinks he's good at inspiring architects. "I know how to make creative people see that something is not as good as they...
Eisner is ambitious in the best sense. Like the founder of his company, or an overgrown child, he thinks big and will not take no for an answer. He wants to redeem Walt Disney's dream for Epcot -- it was supposed to be an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow -- by creating a new town on 3,800 acres at the southern end of his Florida fiefdom. Eisner's vision is a mixture of the predictable ("the biggest mall in Florida"), the high-minded ("I've been obsessed with creating a new chautauqua") and the intriguingly original ("We want to build...