Word: disneyized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They're cute, they whistle while they work, and Snow White can always depend on them in a pinch. The Seven Dwarfs are among Walt Disney's most lovable characters. So why are they making some residents of a California neighborhood grumpy? When Disney unveiled a new corporate headquarters in Burbank last week, onlookers were startled to see that its facade features 19-ft. statues of Dopey, Sneezy & Co. posing as if they were holding up the roof. The building is "an overbearing presence on surrounding neighborhoods," declared Michael Scandiffio, a board member of a Burbank homeowners group. But some...
...REISSUE PINOCCHIO? The Walt Disney studio is developing a feature film to be called The Passion of Richard Nixon. John Malkovich has been approached about the title role, and production is scheduled for later this year. Producer David Permut (Dragnet) describes the project as a "story about a man desperately trying to overcompensate in everything...
Last year Garry Marshall directed a brisk, witty movie starring Bette Midler as a lottery winner who chases her elusive ticket through Manhattan. The film, shown daily at Disney-MGM Studios park in Florida, lasts three minutes. Beyond that length Marshall has trouble freshening a familiar theme. But maybe predictability is the point of Pretty Woman, which may be a hit just because it descends to its audience's expectations. This is old-fashioned, assembly- line moviemaking without the old panache. It makes one ask, Can't the Japanese do it better? Couldn't anybody...
...Florida, just 200 miles below man's imaginative creation, Disney World, nature's great act, the Everglades, is on the edge of collapse because of dry weather and the demands for water. The National Park Service is seeking money so that the Army Corps of Engineers can uproot some of their canals and dams that have routed water to commercial use. It is a new experience for the Army engineers, who rarely undo their majestic alterations of Mother Nature. But suddenly the thirsty residents of Miami realize that if the Everglades aquifers languish, so does the city. Here again, some...
WHERE THE HEART IS. Can a spoiled Manhattan family find happiness squatting in - a Brooklyn hovel? Why, sure. Can top director John Boorman (Hope and Glory) make a Disney comedy? Well, no. Dabney Coleman supplies the (few forced) laughs, Uma Thurman the redeeming prurient interest...