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...torch of classical animation. Bluth would have it no other way. Like a conservative bishop fighting his church for abandoning the Latin Mass, Bluth left the Disney cartoon studio in 1979 believing that management was not living up to the animation ideals established some 40 years earlier by Uncle Walt. Soon 16 other Disney animators had joined him in his garage to affirm their faith in clarity of story line, subtlety of color and density of graphic detail. Now the Bluth Brigade has emerged with its first feature-length cartoon. It is something gorgeous to look...
...characters as well. The hero becomes "Sir Scum" and creates frantic medieval battles for his sons on the front lawn. He is constantly staring at the kids in awe. "I will never write anything that lovely." Garp tells his wife Helen (Mary Beth Hurt) after tucking sons Duncan and Walt into bed. Helen provides a steady and more serious influence throughout, and Roberta Muldoon (John Lithgow), the tight end-turned-transsexual effectively becomes the best friend a Garp could ever have. Even the puzzling Jenny Fields (Glenn Close), mother of Garp and matriarch of a fanatical feminist movement, displays...
...TRON, a $21 million innerspace fantasy with which the Disney organization hopes to reclaim its share of the movie marketplace. "Thirty-five minutes into the film/' he says, "the coughing started, and halfway through, people began to talk. This was a sympathetic audience that had turned apathetic. Walt Disney used to tell his people, 'Start with a story, then make the movie.' This time they got it backward." The next morning, through Montgomery's 30 traders and salesmen, James advised his clients to lay off the Disney stock. Wall Street reacted fast. The New York Stock...
Even the filmmakers at Walt Disney, long-time champions of the pre-teen set, have not been immune. Their latest movie, Tron, caters exclusively to the burgeoning video class...
...Walt Kanvicki II York...