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While his fellow Mouseketeers excelled at singing and dancing, young Ryan acted in a few sketches but mostly whiled away his days scalping his free Disney World passes to families in the parking lot or riding Space Mountain and eating the giant smoked turkey legs sold at the park. At one point, when his parents were divorcing, Gosling moved in with Timberlake's family. He also got a reputation for corrupting his fellow Mouseketeers with detailed descriptions of sexual positions. "All the kids would talk about what kids talk about," he says. "I guess I was talking about...
...Shihada currently lives in New York City and has been working full time as an artist for 22 years. After learning to leave his contact information on the sidewalk as a signature of sorts, he began to get calls about projects. His list of past-clients includes U2, Armani, Disney, MTV and Adidas. He even recently appeared (as himself) in the movie “No Reservations.” “I was doing a mural of Cinderella in front of a house for a little girl’s birthday party when the director walked...
...Shop—a 24-hour mecca that stood for 81 years in the heart of the Square—few such holdouts of gritty, grungy, old Harvard Square remain. Their replacements—fast casual, ethnic fare, and fine dining—speak to an increasingly sophisticated and Disney-fied Square. Some long-time residents wax nostalgic for the old school and, along with students, lament the seemingly inexorable move upscale. Although several new arrivals hint at the promise of a revitalized, unique neighborhood, rising rent costs have left Harvard Square’s diners in a state...
...sniffing around Moscow recently, trying to figure out how and when to get involved in an industry with a potentially massive upside. Twentieth Century Fox, which purchased the international rights to the ethereal Russian vampire movies Night Watch and Day Watch, opened offices in Moscow last year. Paramount and Disney are kicking the tires. And Sony, through its Columbia Tristar division, joined with several American investors last year to form Monumental Pictures, which is producing Russian-language movies for the domestic market. Monumental's general director, Paul Heth, an American, built the first Western-style cinemas in Russia...
...Weinsteins even inspired an online petition to Disney, signed by 14,000 movie fans demanding that the brothers "cease the act of altering Hong Kong films." "If you do this and that for different audiences," says Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi, "you lose the whole raison d'être of your cultural mark. There's a certain energy or stamp or mark on a film that says 'this is a Hong Kong film.'" And not just those. Last year, French director Luc Besson publicly criticized the Weinstein's handling of his animated feature, Arthur and the Invisibles: "They changed...