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...Sunday, a peak hour for family fun, but Hong Kong's Magical Kingdom is a little short on enchanted subjects. The fifth branch of the Happiest Place on Earth has been criticized for being too small and offering too few rides, but the The Walt Disney Company hopes to inject a little fairy dust into the place by adding a hitherto missing ingredient: the iconic "It's A Small World" ride - a boat tour through an air-conditioned world of singing and dancing dolls sporting Disney's idea of their country's traditional costumes in locales both real and imagined...
While the rivals who vanquished him campaigned in his state, former presidential candidate and North Carolina Senator John Edwards decamped with his family to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Despite extensive behind-the-scenes conversations with the campaigns of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Edwards has yet to endorse either candidate. His politically active wife Elizabeth has also withheld her support, though she took time off from their vacation to talk to the media about how much she likes Clinton's health-care plan--and dislikes McCain's. On May 6, John Edwards plans to choose between Obama...
...think it's really artsy. It wasn't in a skanky way." Thus did America's big sister, Miley Cyrus, describe a Vanity Fair photo by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz of herself, tousled and clutching a blanket to her torso. Many parents of fans of Disney Channel's Hannah Montana, on the other hand, saw not an homage to classical portraiture but a topless 15-year-old. Um, no, they demurred. That was totally in a skanky...
...course, those parents might not want to let their 6-year-olds watch a show about a teen pop star. But Cyrus has based her career--and Disney its franchise--on offering a safe harbor. The squeaky-clean Hannah promises, as the theme song goes, "the best of both worlds": a big-girl pop-star story scrubbed of the scary Britneyness. When parents see Cyrus' bedroom eyes or Internet pictures of her flashing her bra, they feel--just as when Zoey 101's 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant--baited and switched...
...tone of this play isn’t unprecedented within the Sunken Garden’s repertoire. Given that past Sunken Garden performances have addressed decidedly Grimm topics such as decapitation, their interpretation of “The Three Spinners” may not be the sanitized Disney version. This will be the Sunken Garden’s 12th performance at Arts First Weekend. Their annual productions, held in a small outdoor theater near Longfellow Hall known as the “sunken garden,” manage to keep the attention of a notoriously fidgety demographic...