Among the many things I discovered about myself while watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it was how much I really missed the voice and visage of Peter Jennings steering us through the storm. I’m sure many people felt the same way. So it was no surprise to me when 2000 mourners attended his memorial… Read More »Remembering Peter Jennings: The Memorial
SeaWorld Orlando has won final approval to go ahead and build a Water Park on an adjacent piece of property. The 58-acre park is scheduled to open in 2007.
You can vote for the Financial Times book of the year. Disney fans can vote their passion as DisneyWar by James Stewart is one of the choices. It looks like it might need a little help in the voting too, it’s running in last place… Read More »Disney War: Book of the Year?
We’ve already seen the pictures, the comparisions, the rumors. But BoingBoing has posted it now, and word will travel fast. Chicken Little and Looney Toons’ Egghead Jr. separated at birth? Could be? Is it an homage? or is it theft? We report, you go see the movie, Disney gets free advertising.
Mr. Keane, a 31-year veteran who created the beast from "Beauty and the Beast" and Ariel from "The Little Mermaid," was a Disney traditionalist. But after a series of experiments to see if he could create a computer-animated ballerina, his opposition softened. So he invited the 50 animators to discuss the pros and cons of… Read More »Glen Keane on Disney’s transition to CG Animation
It used to be that all amusement parks ended up burned down, closed, or abandoned. Then Walt Disney came along and revolutionized the industry. I think we can all agree that was a good thing. Thanks to IllicitOhio.com we have a look at some amusement parks that were from before Walt’s time or didn’t heed… Read More »Abandoned Amusements
If you liked that sexy mystery in "Desperate Housewives" and that crazy polar bear in the middle of the "Lost" tropics, get ready for a blizzard of aliens and monsters, romances and intrigues, unmatched in popular media since Rod Serling first put the Twilight Zone up for our national consideration. The CS Monitor has a… Read More »Lost spawns thickly plotted TV shows
Old Radio Fun Blog has a trio of recent podcasts that will have Disney fans enthralled. First radio broadcast that promotes the movie Song of the South. Hard to get much material on this movie since Disney has deemed it too dangerous for release. Second is a historic audio broadcast from 1938 promotied the release… Read More »Snow White and Pinnochio Classic Radio Casts