Word: disneyized
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Reincarnation on Central Park West? It sounds like material left over from an old Nichols and May routine. An implacably amorous computer? It sounds as if the Disney organization decided to adapt an idea Stanley Kubrick had discarded as unworthy of him. Yet allegedly responsible adults, accountable to the stockholders of major motion picture concerns, are asking us to consider the former a realistic possibility, the latter a cautionary tale...
...person we choose for the job will have to combine all these qualities, and be in possession of a knockout personality, three irrefutable references (excluding next of kin, friends, teachers and past employers), and two "B" tickets from Disney World...
Taping Baretta. Not in the opinion of Universal City Studios, the movie and TV show producing arm of MCA Inc., or of Walt Disney Productions. They are suing Sony, its American subsidiary, an advertising agency, a few retail stores and one Betamax owner in a federal court in California. The complaint seeks to prevent further manufacture and sale of the Betamax, and to force impounding and destruction of Betamax tapes of programs owned by the plaintiffs. Universal, which initiated the suit and invited Disney to join, argues that taping TV shows or movies violates U.S. copyright law, even if viewers...
...Zenith will begin selling Sony systems under its own label next fall, and RCA will be marketing a Matsushita-built system by then too. If color TVs and pocket calculators are valid precedents, the price of video-tape units should fall fast. Even if Universal and Disney win a final verdict in, say, 1980, there may be so many machines and tapes in American living rooms that enforcing the decision would be a practical impossibility...
...leave home until the age of 47-and her prose is marked with arch names and marred with punishments for the nonconformist. Her artwork is another matter: from childhood, Beatrix commanded a delicate palette and an irrepressible whimsy. Her meticulous brushwork animated an entire barnyard world. The early Disney derives from her fantasies. So do the shenanigans of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck -as well as the anthropomorphic enchantments of many current children's books...