Word: disneyized
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...discovers that American streets are not paved with cheese and that whoever said the golden land was free of cats was, well, exaggerating. Not to worry, though. Fievel (whose voice is supplied by eight-year-old Actor Phillip Glasser) is fully as brave and resourceful as any homogenized Disney rodent. And he is capable of exposing his most vulnerable feelings as few animated critters ever have. This is a mouse who is not ashamed...
...Mandarin their names will be pronounced "Mi-lao-shu" and "Tang-lao-ya," but the saucer ears and orange bill will show them unmistakably to be the popular Disney characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Beginning this week, at 6:30 every Sunday evening, the 30-minute "Mickey and Donald" animated cartoon show will be broadcast on China Central Television Network, dubbed in Mandarin. In Peking last week, Disney officials announced that the company would provide the Chinese network with 104 episodes over the next two years. Disney will give the network the show in exchange for selling two minutes...
...real draw for Disney is a potentially huge market for the 8,000-odd different consumer products that the entertainment conglomerate sells. Among them: the Mickey Mouse Disco album, Gummi Bears toys and Pinocchio ceramic miniatures...
...Hills. Asian Americans cannot "assimilate" into the American way of life because already are American--that's why we love pizza, hate the Unions' pu-pu platter, cheer the Red Sox and boo the Mets (or vice versa). We cannot "separate" from the "mainstream" because we already have visited Disney World, attended St. Paul's Academy or the Harvard School, and cannot help but dream of B-School then Wall Street success. Lewison...
...were looking for ways to lure retail shoppers in a thinly populated region where the winters are long and temperatures often dip to -40 degreesF. Much of their concept is blatantly borrowed from Disneyland -- right down to the name of their amusement park, which they have dubbed Fantasyland. (Walt Disney Productions is suing over use of that name.) But the Ghermezians view the delights of their pleasure dome unsentimentally. "We do not make money on the entertainment," says Eskandar, fortyish, one of the less secretive of the brothers. "We make money on the retail sales. But it is the entertainment...