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...DISNEY VERSION by Richard Schickel. 384 pages. Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Walt | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...Walt Disney died on Dec. 15, 1966, at the age of 65; yet it is difficult to think of him as being dead. Much of this has to do with the ubiquitous enterprises that, under Brother Roy Disney, continue to spread the name.* On a more disturbing level, however, it is difficult to accept the fact of Disney's death because it was difficult to accept the facts of his life. Even his surname, said to have been traced to a Burgundian soldier named De Disney who followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Walt | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...spring and the sap is runnin' high at Disney's. They've perduced melliferous live-action pitchers 'fore Family Band, but this'n could be cut up and used for flypaper-and mebbe ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

DAVID BROWER is a conservationist. Think about Walt Disney, birdwatching, and Peter Rabbit, and all the things that the word probably suggests, and then forget them; because when Brower starts talking about what we're doing to nature, he sometimes gets angry, the things he says aren't usually very pretty, and he has few kind words for Smokey the Bear...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: David Brower | 3/27/1968 | See Source »

...eight scenes before letting us know what's doing. Self-consciously they sip drinks and smoke cigarettes, all the while commenting obliquely on thunderstorms and ghosts, and on such standbys as truth and illusion. Every so often a long-winded narrator, sort of a supernatural Walt Disney, interrupts to fill those details too difficult to dramatize. Sound and light effects also butt in from time to time, but they prove merely idle threats of impending excitement. We get only ambiguity for suspense, a tape recorder for horror...

Author: By Frank RICH Jr., | Title: The Invention of Morel | 3/25/1968 | See Source »

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