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...works can fit any format: modern comedy (Bill Murray in Scrooged), musical cartoon (the Disney gang' s Oliver & Company) or period piece (Christine Edzard' s daunting six hours of Little Dorrit...
...Walt Disney Co. would seem a natural to do Dickens. Walt was, after all, the Dickens of his day, deviser of a comprehensive world in which humor taught homilies and fantasy purred up against sentimentality. But not until now has the studio based a cartoon musical feature on a Dickens tale. It was worth the wait. Oliver & Company is Dickens with a twist, and Disney with a treat. Turning Fagin's gang into canines, transporting them to modern Manhattan and embroidering the scene with street vendors and Tiffany dog tags, the picture makes for a luscious comic valentine...
Homes across the U.S. have succumbed to a friendly invasion by 10.6 million lovable aliens. That is how many videocassettes of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) have been sold, for up to $24.95, since its Oct. 27 release. Already the sad-eyed visitor has displaced Disney's Cinderella, with sales of 6 million copies, as the most popular videotape ever. Analysts predict that E.T. will soon appear in 25% of the 50 million U.S. homes with VCRs...
This wasn't a band, it was a Walt Disney "Up With College Football" extravaganza. UMass even brought xylophones...
...last week, are as informal and user friendly as their acronymic nicknames, AMMI and MOMI. Splendidly begauded in perky colors, stocked with playful film fetishes and interactive exhibits that look like video games, the new museums are not mausoleums of modern art. They are more like theme parks, urban Disney Worlds...