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...fitting stroke of symbolism, next week's Teamsters convention will take place in Orlando instead of its familiar site: Las Vegas -- the magic kingdom that was built illegally with the union's money. The Teamsters are putting on a new face. Even the workers at Disney World who walk around wearing Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck or Pluto costumes are card-carrying members of the International Brotherhood. More important, the union is at last cleaning up its act, thanks to the prodding of court-appointed officers who have forced dozens of Mob-connected officials out of the union...
...budget debut in August with True Identity, a $16 million comedy about a black man forced to pass for white in order to evade Mafia hit men. Although he had to ask for changes that would make the movie less offensive to blacks, Lane admits he was thrilled when Disney's Touchstone Pictures offered him the script. Says he: "I had been working in film since 1969, so it was a long time coming...
...DISNEY kingdom has lost some of its luster lately, with theme-park attendance down and movies like The Marrying Man striking out at the box office. But the Mickey Mouse organization aims to help restore the magic by reviving an old formula: the movie musical. The studio is now filming Newsies, a song-and-dance act based on a 1899 New York City newsboys' strike. The film ! is being directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega, a music-video veteran. Disney moguls believe the MTV generation will readily take to long-form musicals, which don't require Schwarzenegger-size budgets. The studio...
...grand to apply to a song like If You Don't Want My Peaches, You'd Better Stop Shaking My Tree, but it actually encompasses the whole vast range of creative ideas that turn out to have value -- and many of them have more value than ever. From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse to Upjohn's formula for its antibaldness potion, patents, trademarks and copyrights have become corporate treasures that their owners will do almost anything to protect...
...somewhere along the way, their journey went awry. After one wrong turn that placed them in the unfamiliar hustle-bustle of downtown New York, the couple concluded that an all-night drive in the direction of Disney World wasn't for them...