Word: mermaids
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...most famous exports. "He's the only Dane with a worldwide brand," says Christian Have, director of public affairs for the Hans Christian Andersen 2005 Foundation. And he's one of the most widely translated authors in the world, with classics like The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid having appeared in 144 languages and 163 countries. Now the Danes are getting ready to throw a 200th birthday bash for their most famous son. On April 2, the bicentennial of his birth, Denmark kicks off a global celebration of Andersen and his evocative stories with Once Upon a Time...
...Chicago, was downplayed as belonging to ABC, “that part of the company,” while their own brand, Walt Disney films, was glorified as the sanctuary of family entertainment. I wondered how that might relate to the minister’s erection in The Little Mermaid, but I doubted Strategic Planning would answer that question...
Scarlett Johansson agreed to be the voice of a new character, Mindy the Mermaid, with equal enthusiasm. “I was just shocked because her performance in Lost in Translation was just amazing,” Hillenburg says. “So we just really lucked...
...curators with their fragile ochers and buckling frames, barks are impossible to restrain, and it's to her credit that Hetti Perkins has liberated many in the show from their 20th century backing boards. It's the perfect medium for the constantly metamorphosing creatures that inhabit them, from yawkyawk mermaid spirits to the rainbow serpent, Ngalyod. Indeed, so warped is the bark of James Iyuna's 2002 serpent that it threatens to lift off the wall. But what is a nightmare for conservators is a thrill for spectators...
Forget those blunt Australians. The new It Country in show biz is Denmark. The Nordic nation, whose biggest A-listers until recently were oddball auteur Lars Von Trier (Dogville) and Hans Christian Andersen (The Little Mermaid), is now better known for heartthrobs. "It must have been all the Nutrigrain they fed us as kids," says Norgaard, who takes on all comers in this month's Alien vs. Predator. Yah. Or those cheekbones...