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...kids excited about computers, you could take the time and trouble to design first-rate software that really turned them on. Or you could make computer mice shaped like cartoon characters. That's what Delta Millennium has done. Their mice are available in Mickey Mouse, Lion King, Little Mermaid and other Disney motifs for $40 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Sep. 14, 1998 | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...other words, this is strong, supple entertainment, not a girlish cartoon in the style of The Little Mermaid, in which a girl becomes a woman. Here, a girl becomes a man. Mulan is the only child of a dutiful man tied to tradition. "I know my place," he tells his rebellious tomboy of a daughter. "It is time you learned yours." Her place, it turns out, is at the head of a ragtag platoon fighting Shan-Yu's Huns. This woman warrior will prove that the art of war is the smart of war, that one wins by cunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Ode to Martial Smarts | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...LITTLE MERMAID Topless, headless Copenhagen siren gets noggin back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 19, 1998 | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...full-length Anastasia, Fox hoped to do what no company has done over the past 60 years: crack the monopoly of the animated market held by Disney. With nearly $100 million put into production and marketing, Fox even scared the Magic Mouse--Disney quickly re-released The Little Mermaid in a feeble attempt to block Anastasia's success...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lavish Animation, Shallow Characters for Fox's 'Anastasia' | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...would also exact a little revenge on Disney, which is countering Anastasia with a 17-day rerelease of its 1989 hit The Little Mermaid as well as the kid-oriented Robin Williams comedy Flubber. "Disney is throwing the kitchen sink against Anastasia," says Daly. "They're doing everything to kill it. And I guess if you were in their shoes you'd do the same thing." One of the men in those shoes, Disney motion-pictures-group chairman Richard Cook, deems it business as usual. Disney has tried--and succeeded in--undercutting most of its rivals' big animated films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THERE'S TUMULT IN TOON TOWN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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