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...Disney is setting the record, um, straight, with its release of The Princess and the Frog. The protagonist, Tiana, is Disney's first black princess - and she's got curly hair. Although Tiana's skin color is generating far more buzz than her hairstyle, it would be a mistake to overlook the significance of her coif. There are plenty of black women who spend tons of time, energy and money straightening their hair - including the U.S.'s much imitated First Lady. Disney easily could have bestowed smooth tresses on Tiana, yet it didn...
...after a tangent about Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog,” Ayogu pauses. “Basically, I’ve figured out the meaning of life,” Ayogu says. “One, be happy, and two, make other people’s lives better. And that should be one in the same...
...second weekend, Disney's animated feature The Princess and the Frog earned a gigantic gross - $744,000 - with four shows per day at just two sites: the Ziegfeld in Manhattan and a theater on the Disney lot in Burbank. Why did it do so well? Because the ticket price is a whopping $50, with the perk of a trip to a nearby venue (Roseland in New York), where the wee ones can have their pictures taken with all nine Disney cartoon princesses and get a lesson in drawing one of the film's characters from a Disney animator. Many...
Next weekend The Princess and the Frog opens wide, in the august company of Clint Eastwood's Invictus, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and the pre-acclaimed indie drama A Single Man. If there's not a new No. 1 title then - if The Blind Side and New Moon don't finally make way for the new kids at the box office - it will be time for Hollywood to unsheathe its harakiri swords...
...sturdy $1.5 million at 111 theaters, to finish a mere $10,000 behind Clooney's 10th-place The Men Who Stare at Goats. In a special engagement at single theaters in New York City and Los Angeles, Disney's old-style animated feature The Princess and the Frog pulled in $712,000. If it keeps that up, it will truly be Disney magic...