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...kept looking for mouse ears, but they weren't there. I also expected Snow White or Donald Duck to pop up unannounced during our meals. But despite frequent glances over my shoulder, I saw only our happy tour group. "When Adventures by Disney first started, Mickey and other characters would show up out of nowhere on our trips," one of the guides confided to me. "But the guests didn't really appreciate it. It was too out of context to have Mary Poppins greeting you in Italy...
Like his rodent rival, Mickey Mouse, and those other critters from Disneyland, Asterix now boasts a theme park outside Paris. Over the past decade, three live-action Asterix movies have hammered Hollywood films in French cinemas; the most recent one, Asterix at the Olympic Games, was one of the top-grossing movies of 2008. And while the U.S. has remained largely immune to the Gaul's charms, his celebrity has been recognized by at least one venerable American publication: Asterix made the cover of a 1991 TIME magazine special edition on "the new France." (Read "Can Asterix Conquer Europe...
...using flawed and possibly illegal criteria, purged “tens of thousands” of eligible voters from their rolls in the run-up to the 2008 election. Some states passed laws to restrict voter registration drives; the threat of some prankster signing up as “Mickey Mouse” is just that terrifying! And others require extensive photo identification from in-person voters, which serves not to reduce fraud (in-person voter fraud is extremely rare) but to exclude eligible voters who don’t have the right forms of identification. Naturally...
...Connell’s Poolroom, Samad and Archie’s home away from home, represents the new Britain; neither Irish nor a poolroom, it’s owned by Abdul-Mickey, an Arab with bad skin whose family names “all sons Abdul to teach them the vanity of assuming higher status than any other man, which was all very well and good but tended to cause confusion in the formative years.” Abdul-Mikey adds the second—English—name as a sort of qualifier for the first...
...like those in Zemeckis’ 2007 adaptation of “Beowulf”—will surely be disappointed. Nevertheless, for all those whose memories of “A Christmas Carol” center on the original classic rather than the Kermit the Frog or Mickey Mouse versions, Zemeckis’ film is a delightful and nostalgic experience...