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...Bitch echoes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, with choruses in fake Chinese, Dutch and French. Saddam could be an Arabic fiddler on the roof as he struts his seedy charm in I Can Change. Satan has a hilariously solemn ballad in the Disney-cartoon mode; like the Little Mermaid, he wants to be Up There. There's a dexterous quartet of musical themes, a la Les Miz. And though a song whose refrain is, more or less, "Shut your flicking face, Uncle Flicka" would seem to have little room for musical wit, ace arranger Marc Shaiman turns it into an Oklahoma...
MICHAEL EISNER Trial reveals Disney boss derided Katzenberg as "the little midget." Little Mermaid wants blood...
Finally it was out in the open, the bad blood between two of Hollywood's most influential executives, men who worked together to create such Disney classics as The Lion King and The Little Mermaid. Now they are locked in a multimillion-dollar battle about profit participation in such things as Pooh-n-You games at Club Disney and the upcoming film Toy Story 2. Katzenberg claims that as head of the studio from 1984 to 1994, he is due 2% of all income from films and TV shows made during that period--in perpetuity. (Think sequels, videos, Broadway shows...
...break no. 2: the 1984 Splash, in which Hanks falls for a mermaid. The modestly budgeted film grossed $62 million in North America, and Hanks was suddenly the new surefire romantic-comedy guy. In three years he did seven films, mostly raffish comedies. It took Penny Marshall's Big (Break No. 3) to change that. Now he was so hot he was cast in roles that didn't suit him, like Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities or the thinks-he's-going-to-die hero of Joe versus the Volcano...
Almost despite itself, The Prince of Egypt recalls familiar cartoon motifs. Like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and The Lion King (and for that matter, Gone With the Wind, Star Wars, Forrest Gump and Hamlet), this is a coming-of-age story, a tale of youth pressed into troubled maturity during a national cataclysm. As for the film's basic plot--a bright misfit goes undercover to save his people from foreign domination--it's pure Mulan. You'll also find echoes of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 essay in panoramic kitsch, The Ten Commandments (including the climactic Red Sea parting...