Word: hunchback
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Stephen Schwartz, a four-time Oscar winner who has worked on projects including "The Prince of Egypt," "Godspell, and Disney's version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," offered a class on song composition for his audience of 100 in the Adams House Lower Common Room yesterday afternoon...
...love with the medium. Disney's animated films climbed an arc that peaked in 1994 with the $755 million that The Lion King grossed worldwide. But that film opened just weeks before Katzenberg was ejected in a play for advancement that went sour. Disney's subsequent cartoons--Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules--failed to replicate that level of success. Was it animation burnout, or was Katzenberg the one with the Midas touch...
...maintain that kind of distance and independence from your own work, especially when it espouses the kind of socially unacceptable and questionable perspectives his does. White Boy shows a oversized white boy, who he compared to the excessively large pharaohs in Egyptian art. In his version of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the hunchback is black and Colescott pointedly asked the audience, "What happens when you make a freak black? Does he become more of a freak?" These works would have been easier to appreciate had Colescott simply articulated the implied irony. But he did not. Instead he proceeded with...
More than any other Cirque show, O incorporates these acts into its expansive design. A quartet of carousel horses canters through the air. Angels, hunchbacks, giant toucans materialize as cameo apparitions. Anything may navigate the pool: a bathtub, a giant inverted umbrella, a wayward iceberg, a shark fin that turns out to be the top of a crescent moon. At the end the hunchback plays a grand piano as the princess reclines on it--art, love and beauty in one heartbreaking image--and then, slowly, it dissolves into the water. Here and throughout, O achieves a goal of the highest...
...life he was compared (often by himself) to an eagle, a titan, an ogre, a monster; to Homer, Shakespeare, Dante and Cervantes. He wrote enormous, turbulent, dark novels, two of which (Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) in our own day have been turned, respectively, into a kitsch-book musical and a saccharine Disney film. Few read the originals, at least in English, though they are of course more disturbing and entertaining than their modern clones. He wrote 21 plays, which transformed the French theater, hoicking...