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...contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself," cried Walt Whitman. The creation of a baby is full of paradoxes and illogicalities. The cost of raising a child to 18, approaching $100,000 in the U.S., according to one estimate, would deter any sensible
...tried out the idea first with Walt Disney Productions, which would not agree to give her the artistic control she wanted. She skipped the networks, knowing she would have to hack her way through brambles of bureaucracy, and decided to go to pay cable. Showtime agreed to let her reign over the project and put up half of the money. The other half is footed by Gaylord Productions, a Los Angeles firm that will handle syndication and videocassette rights...
...perspective, the Bruegelian God's-eye view, as in his hovering vision of Arbor Day, 1932. Sometimes, with less happy results, he conflated it with Hollywood. The night view of Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, is straight out of a Disney animation, and indeed the influence of Walt on Wood looks stronger than is usually acknowledged. In his curious Death on the Ridge Road, 1935, a painting of an impending car crash, the fatal truck coming over the brow of the hill has its wheels off the ground and skewed in the exact convention of cartoons...
...demand for that type of skill has made the growing industry even more attractive to giant corporations, since they already have valuable experience in those fields. CBS, Walt Disney Productions, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. have all entered the software business within the past year. CBS and 20th Century-Fox are producing software for games, while Walt Disney makes educational programs. Dow Jones is turning out packages for stock-market analysis...
...save Walt Disney, matches the creativeness of George Lucas [May 23], the originator of the ceaseless wonders of the Star Wars universe. If anything is retained from Lucas' magical movies, it should be the concept that peace and good will always triumph...