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.
The second of three parts to my latest Kenversation(TM) column is up at LaughingPlace.com. The first part is here. In this part of the column, I talk about the big recent changes and trends in cinema, home viewing of feature films, DVDs, cable television, telecom, broadcast television networks, radio, and record companies – all of… Read More »Shameless Plug – Part Deux
It’s finally time for another shameless plug. (I called in a "Shamless" plug at first, but I guess that works, too.) The first part of the latest edition of my Kenversations(TM) column was posted today on LaughingPlace.com. In this three-part column, I examine the big changes both inside Disney and around Disney over the last… Read More »Shameless Plug – Kenversations(TM)
Sorry Ken, I’m calling bullshit on this one. Anyone who spends three seconds comparing this guy’s sketch to the very earliest cartoons of Mickey Mouse knows what this guy has is a fake. It might be an authentic Disney Studios product, but it’s not an early sketch of the mouse. See this still from ‘Plane… Read More »Florida Man Asserts He Owns Mickey
There’s a rumor that, as of midnight, the Disneyland cast members covered under the Master Services Agreement will be dropped by their union(s). The Master Services Agreement covers many front-line cast members such as Ride Operators, Vendors, Store Operations, Custodial, and more. Disneyland cast members have often had a tense relationship with their unions. There… Read More »Disneyland Cast Members Going Unionless?
The Los Angeles Times has run an editorial on the new push for 3-D cinema. There’s even a recounting of what sounds like an early version of Alien/Stitch Encounter: Selected chairs were equipped with hidden vibrating devices. At the film’s climactic moment, the scorpion-like Tingler seemed to rip through the screen toward the audience, then… Read More »Cameron’s 3-D Flick is Still Two Years Away, But…
The Winnie the Pooh ownership rights saga keeps going on and on. From WorldScreen.com: SSI is petitioning for the cancellation of about 25 Pooh-related names registered by Disney since 1996, according to wire reports, claiming that Disney "was not the owner of the registered marks at the time that these filings were made.” Disney has… Read More »Ongoing Fighting Over Pooh
Gina Keating of Reuters writes about Disney using hand-drawn "two-dimensional" a.k.a. "traditional" animation. Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back the art form to the big screen. "We will be bringing back hand-drawn (two-dimensional)… Read More »Disney Open to Multiple Animation Methods
In what has to be among the most expected news in corporate business, Gap brand president Cynthia Harriss, who followed Paul Pressler from The Disney Stores to the Disneyland Resort to The Gap, Inc., has left following the resignation of Paul Pressler as CEO of The Gap, Inc. Following Harriss’ departure, four of the remaining… Read More »That Took Longer Than I Thought It Would