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Three Little Pigs (Walt Disney) is the latest Silly Symphony in color. It shows two disgraceful pink porkers lazily building themselves shacks out of straw. A wolf blows their houses down. The lazy pigs have a more industrious brother who has just completed a brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...
...Cooper, 56, the most flamboyant of the original seven, is now a conservative Encino, Calif., businessman who describes his second marriage in 1972 to Susan Taylor, now 38, as the highlight of his life. Besides spending five years as a vice president for research and development at Walter E. Disney Enterprises, Cooper has parlayed his technical expertise into a galaxy of ventures such as his own consulting firm and, currently, a corporation that will produce alcohol fuel...
...Deal may be the classic Hollywood art form, but crossbreeding is the way to an audience's heart. In the entertainment industry, nothing "new" succeeds like last year's success, with a twist. Star Wars? It is like 2001, but cute. E.T.?Disney meets Alien. Flashdance? MTV with a plot. The same, but different. In network television, with its older, more sedentary and conservative audience, the emphasis is on same. Virtually all of the 22 series making their debuts on ABC, CBS and NBC in the next month are clones or hybrids of other TV shows...
...outspoken former NBC executive who heads the Playboy Channel, estimates that he needs at least 100 films annually to satisfy his audience. In the next year, 36 of those will be made-for-Playboy movies, with budgets of up to $1 million each and titles like Black Venus. The Disney Channel will spend at least $100 million on new programming during its first lg three years. President James Jimirro, a ten-year Disney veteran, has nearly 20 shows in development. One that will appear this fall is Five Mile Creek, a dramatic series set in Australia in the 1860s. Jimirro...
...Some Disney viewers have complained that the service is too "adult," that its programming is oriented not to children but to nostalgic older viewers for whom the shows are a kind of video déjà vu. Jimirro acknowledges that 20% of Disney subscribers do not have children under 13. But he prefers to see this as a sign that the service offers "something universal...