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...past, graduates of this school considered two options after their graduation: to preach or to profess. Today, the most coveted job in Harvard's spring recruiting is at Walt Disney Company, or second best, the NBA. For us, piety emanates not from Jerusalem, the Vatican, Mecca, Kyoto or Banares. It's Los Angeles. The celebration of banality found in Los Angeles carries over to Harvard. We throw ourselves into the gorge...
...significant. There is an Emmy award-winning actress, a producer/manager of multiple Tony award-winning Broadway shows including "The Secret Garden," the producer of the films "Lean on Me" and "Colors," an actress from the popular Fox network television show "Beverly Hills 90210" and the musical orchestrator for the Walt Disney animated films "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin" and the soon-to-be-released "Pocahontas...
These little post-Lubitsch touches have Miramax concerned that Kids, scheduled to open July 21, may get an NC-17 rating, which would mean that officially most of the film's young cast could not see it. The Walt Disney Co., Miramax's corporate parent, will not release NC-17 films; so Weinstein, who paid a risky $3.5 million for the $1.5 million-budgeted film, is ready to set up a separate company to distribute Kids. There will be, he vows, no scissoring to get an R rating. As for Clark, he proclaims himself mystified by the clamor: "There...
Movie exhibitors take trailers seriously; they are used as one gauge to determine how many screens a film will play on. From looking at previews of this summer's biggies, many theater owners are enthusiastic. Wall Street is also excited. The Walt Disney Co.'s stock rose this winter after analysts got a peek, in preview form, at the studio's likely hits Crimson Tide and Pocahontas. The rest of the industry would welcome any good news. It has limped through a virtually hit-free first four months of '95; of the year's releases, only Outbreak and Bad Boys...
...abyss in the mind, of course. The wound may heal better if we not only sift through rubble and the mystery of evil, but also look out at the horizon. A helpful exercise is to study Oklahoma City and the 1990s through the prism of a new book called Walt Whitman's America (Knopf). Here, David S. Reynolds, professor of American Literature and American Studies at New York City's Baruch College, splendidly examines the culture that formed the greatest American poet and the greatest American poem, Leaves of Grass, which was first published in 1855. Although Reynolds does...