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...lineup is once again heavy with sequels and action flicks. Among them: Universal's $40 million Back to the Future III; Disney's $30 million Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty and Madonna; Warner Bros.' $32 million Gremlins 2; and Paramount's $45 million Another 48 Hrs. "This is the summer of the blockbuster," says Sidney Ganis, president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group. "If one or more of them fail, next summer there won't be nearly as many rolling...
...suggesting that society police every nightclub and root out every raunchy record from store shelves. There will always be filth on the fringes of entertainment. The problem arises when filth becomes mainstream, when it is mass-marketed. A few giant corporations, including Disney, Fox, MCA, Paramount, Time Warner, Britain's EMI, West Germany's Bertelsmann and Japan's Sony, produce a huge proportion of our children's entertainment. Many parents feel that these companies should take the lead in setting the standards for everyone...
...feel-good decade of peace and prosperity. The official culture is breezy too. A look at our most popular movies and TV shows suggests we are a nation of superheroes and pretty women, of Cosby kids and caring, thirtysomething L.A. lawyers. We make funny home videos and vacation in Disney World. And, at our peril, we let the rest of the real, dirty world...
...shocking. "One of the things we all seek," says Clive Barker, "is the visionary experiences we had as children. We seem to have forgotten that those experiences are not soft and gentle, but often harsh and intense." For several American generations, a child's first entertainment experience was a Disney cartoon, with its wrenching traumas of betrayal, abandonment, a mother's death. An animated film could thrill a child to pieces or scare him near to death. And it introduced him to the beautiful and frightening banquet of popular culture...
...Madonna will shimmy for the rain forest. Tennesseans will ring bells across their state; Oregonians will bang drums. Elephants will crush aluminum cans at Washington's National Zoo in a jungle version of recycling. Manhattan will display the world's largest energy-efficient light bulb. And the Walt Disney Co. will distribute a video about water pollution, starring the Little Mermaid...