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Playboy and Disney have fast-growing cable services in common...
Call them the boys of Indian summer. Roy Scheider, 47, and Robert Redford, 46, have both donned pinstripes and taken the field in two new movies about the All-American pastime. In Tiger Town, the first made-for-TV feature for the new Disney cable channel, Scheider plays Billy Young, a fading 39-year-old baseball legend who is spurred on to win a pennant by the faith of an eleven-year-old fan, played by Justin Henry, 12 (Kramer vs. Kramer). Scheider, who broke his nose during an early "career" as a boxer, says that he has always wanted...
...film is based on the John Hughes Lampoon short story and the idea is quite funny (although the execution doesn't always work). The vacation of a typical American--if there is such a thing--to Disney World (called Wally World starring Marty Mouse in the movie) just cries out to be parodied...
...tried out the idea first with Walt Disney Productions, which would not agree to give her the artistic control she wanted. She skipped the networks, knowing she would have to hack her way through brambles of bureaucracy, and decided to go to pay cable. Showtime agreed to let her reign over the project and put up half of the money. The other half is footed by Gaylord Productions, a Los Angeles firm that will handle syndication and videocassette rights...
...fond of aerial perspective, the Bruegelian God's-eye view, as in his hovering vision of Arbor Day, 1932. Sometimes, with less happy results, he conflated it with Hollywood. The night view of Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, is straight out of a Disney animation, and indeed the influence of Walt on Wood looks stronger than is usually acknowledged. In his curious Death on the Ridge Road, 1935, a painting of an impending car crash, the fatal truck coming over the brow of the hill has its wheels off the ground and skewed in the exact convention...