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...film to fruition. One of his friends from the Advocate, Marta M. Figlerowicz ’09, can attest to his breadth of knowledge: “He has an astonishingly wide range of interests. You can strike up a conversation with him about deconstruction or about 3-D Disney movies.” Keep an eye out for this one...especially if you’re ever in Cannes...
...That won't happen this year. If the Oscars follow the critics' prizes, there won't be a hit film among them - not even the hits that reviewers loved. Disney's megahit comedy Enchanted has the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics' polling site, but I barely heard the film mentioned at the New York voting today. Dozens of scribes raved about the smash comedies Knocked Up and Superbad, but neither film has won a critics' prize. The comedy they love now is Juno, which came out last week...
...wondered how the film's "buckets of gore" and singing and dancing might attract or repel "fogies" and kids [Dec. 3]. I'm a 17-year-old theatergoer, and I don't think kids are looking to Sweeney Todd for Saw IV thrills. Besides, the Rrating precludes the Disney audience. And have you checked out Broadway lately? I believe the "fogey" audience has become accustomed to situations that are more violent than the graveyard scene in The Sound of Music. The true problem with the upcoming version of Sweeney Todd is whether the principal players can do vocal justice...
...about 40% of its capacity. And guests have complained about long lines and high prices at the amusement park. "It wasn't what I hoped for," says Alex Xu, who recently visited the park from Beijing. "I'd rather save my money and go to the real Disney World someday...
...despite our social consciences, smokers are constantly villainized. Miramax and Touchstone, both subsidiaries of Disney, are now discouraged to include “depictions of cigarette smoking” in their movies. (This is the same Miramax that distributed Pulp Fiction.) A depiction of smoking can now bump up a movie from...