Whit Honea is the author of The Parents' Phrase Book. He lives in the L.A. area with his wife and two boys. You can find his writings and other works all over the Internets. Now available on Twitter.
My written and pictoral coverage of the "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" 70th Anniversary Event is now online at LaughingPlace.com. The event took place this past Friday night and included, among other things, a panel discussion with John Lasseter, Leonard Maltin, Roy E. Disney and other names animation nerds would immediately know.
For some reason, Disney’s normally enthusiastic, extensive publicity machine is keeping quiet on this announcement in a Russian news source: Disneyland will be built in Krasnoyarsk by 2012. It was announced by Krasnoyarsk deputy mayor Anatoly Grigorenko at the news conference on October 30. Grigorenko said it was planned to build the children park in… Read More »Siberia Disneyland?
Movie Gallery has filed for bankruptcy. It is just too hard to compete with low sale prices at places like Target, Wal-Mart, and Costco, and all of the home delivery systems for movies – and, course, other rental chains. Movie Gallery, the nation’s No. 2 video rental chain, sought Chapter 11 after months of struggling… Read More »Video Rental Giant Files For Bankruptcy
Karen Stabiner asks in an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times: What ever happened to being a plain old ‘customer’? I don’t know about your friends, but my friends never ask me to pay when they invite me over for a good time. "Guest" implies free, or at least it used to. Lately, "guest"… Read More »Not Everyone Likes Disney-Style ‘Guest’ Service
Meg James and Matea Gold of the Los Angeles Times report that NBC will make the announcement today. The media company, which made the town of tract houses the butt of endless jokes, but also brought it prominence as the base of "The Tonight Show," is decamping to nearby Universal Studios. The media company plans… Read More »Disney’s Burbank Neighbor Going to Universal City
Go to LaughingPlace.com to read my review of the unauthorized biography of the Walt Disney World Resort, Realityland: True Life Adventures at Walt Disney World by David Koenig. Yup, the same guy who wrote Mouse Tales.
And March will get a boost a big movie month. Josh Friedman reports in the Los Angeles Times that DreamWorks Animation, which has its films distributed by Viacom’s Paramount, is moving the release of "Monsters vs. Aliens" up to March 27, 2009 to give it some time on the limted number of 3-D screens before… Read More »May 2009 3-D Film War Averted
UK site Digital Spy reports that another Oz (of "Wizard of Oz") film is being planned by Time Warner, apparently in a way that would be an effort to pick up the torch for Warner Brother’s "Harry Potter" series and New Line’s "The Lord of the Rings" series, both Time Warner offerings. Just about everyone… Read More »Oz Returning to Theaters?