Word: pinocchio
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...freshman at Ohio's Denison University, but eventually found better chemistry in the literature and theater departments. The first time he saw a Disney film was several years after college, when he went with his wife Jane to a Bronx drive-in to see the richly hued Pinocchio. "I just couldn't believe the difference between that film and all the other animation I'd watched," he recalls. Starting his career as a page at NBC in 1963, he eventually became a top executive at ABC, before moving to Paramount. Still, when he arrived for his first...
...slide down a 95-ft. mountain, surf on 6-ft. waves and snorkel in pools filled with tropical fish. Opening this fall is the Pleasure Island night-life park, complete with rollerdrome, comedy warehouse, teen video club and jazz saloon. Eisner hopes customers will not remember too well the Pinocchio story, in which visitors to a place called Pleasure Island were turned into donkeys...
...could blend sight and sound into enthralling art, how it could salve your soul and scare you to tears. Alone in the dark, awed by images bigger and bolder than any dream, children shuddered through a skein of traumas that Walt had devised for them: the outrage of kidnaping (Pinocchio), the ridicule of deformity (Dumbo), the death of a mother (Bambi). Long before the '80s scourge of slasher movies, Disney's were the true horror films, offering primal nightmares and blessed release. And the young were their eager victims. When Snow White premiered at Radio City Music Hall, the management...
...polygraphy examination doesn't measure whether a person is lying because there is no known physiological reaction unique to lying. It's a nice idea that like Pinocchio's nose, our body would give us away when we lie. People can learn to beat a polygraph," said Saxe...
Almost unnoticed, much of America's animation business has moved offshore, primarily to Japan and South Korea, in search of lower costs. Since 1980, the number of unionized U.S. animation workers has fallen from 1,650 to 1,250, and Lou Scheimer, president of Filmation, contends that his Pinocchio could be the last all-American-made animated movie. Filmation may soon join the ranks of animation companies that produce most of their TV cartoons overseas...