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...Walt Disney Co. has agreed that in videos of its cartoon hit Aladdin it will change song lyrics describing the hero's native land as a place "where they cut off your ear/ If they don't like your face/ It's barbaric, but hey, it's home." Because Disney is not eliminating the "barbaric" line, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which brought the complaint, is still complaining...
...ever expanding Walt Disney Co., having announced plans for a West Coast Epcot Center and a Broadway Beauty and the Beast, has now unveiled a touring stage revue of songs from its animated movies. The show opened a two-week run last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, no less, and will go on to play 17 amphitheaters, arts centers and state fairs through Aug. 22. A lavish affair, it is performed by a symphony orchestra, a 30-member chorus, and 44 players who impersonate more than 200 Disney characters. Alas, the title -- Disney's Symphonic Fantasy -- is only...
...eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well-endowed animals," notes Walt Conti, the effects magician who created the seductive stand-ins. "It's pretty obvious he was attracted...
...river has its romance. Explorers once thought it could provide a quick path to China. Walt Whitman said the Mediterranean was its only rival in grandeur. T.S. Eliot, who was born in St. Louis, was surely inspired by the Mississippi when he referred to a river in his poem The Dry Salvages as "a big strong brown god." But poetry isn't appropriate at times like these. "You can't say the river is very charitable," says a tract attributed to Mark Twain, perhaps the Mississippi's most famous observer. "Except for the fact that the streets are quiet . . ., there...
HEALTH-CARE ALLIANCES. The Clinton plan envisions huge groupings of buyers -- patients, companies, insurers -- organizing to bargain with networks of sellers -- doctors, hospitals, nursing homes -- over service and prices. In four years of existence, the Central Florida Health Care Coalition, a grouping of major employers including Walt Disney, Martin Marietta and General Mills, has nagged local hospitals into many cost-cutting procedures. A newly enacted Minnesota law extends the idea by encouraging formation of integrated service networks. ISNs will be nonprofit organizations set up by groups of doctors and hospitals, or insurance companies, or employers, or governmental subdivisions, or just...