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...Angeles, the Bonaventure Hotel's Fantasia nightclub will award prizes for the ugliest face and scariest screamer. At Myron's Ballroom, where old folks go to dance to Big Band music on Sundays, as many as 800 are expected to attend in costume...
...cartoon shorts, 561 episodes of The Mickey Mouse Club, 75 episodes of Zorro ("He makes the sign of the Zeee!") and 200 never-before-syndicated hours of Disney's long-running Sunday night series. (Not to be shown are 16 classic Disney films, including Snow White and Fantasia, which the company reserves for periodic theatrical releases...
Before Tex began, the theater showed a preview for Disney's Fantasia, which, as the voice-over explained, has ben completely rerecorded in digital stereo. While honoring its remarkable past achievements, Disney now presents a film that deals with contemporary and identifiable subjects in a similarly engaging and warm manner. A few, however, may still argue that Dumbo's cuter than Dillon...
...eloquent symphonies of Sir Edward Elgar, for example, are works whose depth of expression rivals Brahms' more famous essays in the form. Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, the finest string-orchestra piece of the century, reaches back for inspiration to the English Renaissance, achieving a spiritual serenity rare in this age of anxiety. Gustav Hoist's The Planets is a superbly effective orchestral showpiece. And two of Benjamin Britten's major operas, Peter Grimes and Death in Venice, belong on any list of the most important modern music dramas...
...told all betray their comicbook origins. As a result, one is constantly distanced from the movie. Perhaps it should be seen by people with something more potent than popcorn coursing through their veins. But even as a trip movie it cannot be compared to such classics as 2001 and Fantasia...