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.
Steve Jobs, who receives only $1, and no other compensation, for his salary at Apple, has asked not to be compensated for his position on the Board of Directors for The Walt Disney Company. Don’t feel too sorry for Jobs, he has Apple stock valued at over $500 million and Disney stock valued at around… Read More »Jobs asks to not be paid to sit on Disney Board of Directors
There’s a new video feature for Disney’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. In Locations and Sets, the cast and the crew take you behind-the-scenes of the film to the deserted islands of the Caribbean. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest opens in theaters nationwide on July 7th! Locations and Sets REAL PLAYER… Read More »POTC: II – Video Feature “Locations and Sets”
CNN is reporting that preliminary results from the autopsy show congenital heart abnormalities indicating the presence of a pre-existing condition in the 12 year old boy who died while riding Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster at Disney-MGM Studios yesterday. That doesn’t make this any less tragic, but it shows that Disney continues to operate a safe… Read More »Breaking: Preliminary Autopsy Results show pre-existing condition
When the Weinstein brother’s departed from the Disney fold, they were given the option of co-releasing a few films with Miramax while they got their new company up and running. One of the films they wanted to keep was Johnny Depp’s The Libertine. In it Johnny Depp plays The Earl of Rochester, known as much… Read More »The Libertine, Depp’s Last Film now on DVD
Update: Preliminary Autopsy results indicate a pre-existing condition in the child. Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith reopened with the rest of the Disney-MGM Studios themepark this morning. A ride inspection was completed last night and found nothing wrong with the attraction or its operation. State inspectors were there to observe Disney staff in the… Read More »Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster reopened this morning
It’s the end of another era at the Walt Disney Company. The honorable Senator George Mitchell is out as chairman and former Procter & Gamble CEO John Pepper is in. During the last 12 years of Michael Eisner’s reign at Disney a diplomat with the skills of Mitchell was needed to direct the Mouse House… Read More »Pepper to Chair Board of Directors
I think this most recent death, while tragic, needs to be understood with in the context of time. While it seems like there has been death after death at Walt Disney World there have been only nine deaths in three years (source, Orlando Sentinel) and 15 deaths since 1989 (source, the AP). Even more importantly,… Read More »How many people have died at Walt Disney World
Filming on Mel Gibson’s epic story of the Mayan people, Apocalypto, continues. But now that more details are making it out, historians and archaeologists are getting worried that Mel’s script doesn’t stick to history’s script. Focusing only on certain aspects of the Maya collapse such as violence or ecological disasters may create the incorrect impression… Read More »Apocalypto: Film or History Lesson, can you have both?