I’ve always thought that Epcot should expand their festival offerings to the point where they’re running pretty much all year round. This year the 15th annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival will run from Marcy 19-June 1, a full 75 days. That’s two additional weeks this year. Some of the planned festival fun includes:… Read More »Epcot’s Flower and Garden Festival expands to 75 days
Long list of links tonight. Should make some good online reading while we all get ready for the Big Game on Sunday. The Walt Disney Company has extended the contracts of CEO Robert Iger and CFO Thomas Staggs for 5 additional years. That was probably the easiest decision the board of directors ever had to… Read More »Saturday Evening Post – Link Roundup
All you people who were only planning on watching the super bowl to see the commercial spot for Narnia: Prince Caspian can thank me now. . Well, what do you think? Looks pretty good to me. Hope that $2.7 million for 30 seconds of airtime was worth it.
Terry Goodkind is the prolific author of the "The Sword of Truth" series of fantasy books. Sam Raimi has agreed to take a break from his feature film directing and return to television to help make "Wizards First Rule" , a series based on the Goodkind books, a reality. ABC and Disney Studios will be… Read More »Disney/ABC teams with Sam Raimi to product Terry Goodkind’s “Wizard’s First Rule”
The Disney Channel’s latest cartoon effort is Phineas & Ferb. It comes from the creative talent of "The Simpsons" and "The Family Guy", but is aimed at younger audience. Phineas and Ferb are stepbrothers who somehow always manage to get into trouble during their summer school break and Candace is their scheming sister. Right now… Read More »Phineas and Ferb: First Episode Free on iTunes
Oh, Losties. It happened! We got our first episode in 8 months! I was just swimming in Lost last night. I’m so happy knowing I get to drown in it each week! (Well, at least 7 more weeks. PLEASE PAY THE WRITERS! If no one else, at least my precious Lost writers. I’ll chip in!)… Read More »Lost & Lostier (Season 4 Episode 1)
Fair warning. Because the cool part of Lost is the twists, I will be spoiling everything about the episodes of Lost I review. So if you want to watch the episodes unspoiled, please skip my posts until you have had a chance to watch it. Let’s start, however, by discussing this episode title. The Beginning… Read More »Lost: The Beginning of the End? Well, a Beginning Anyway
UNITE HERE, the union behind more than 2,000 Disneyland Resort Hotel and Food Service cast members, has problems with Disneyland’s negotiating tactics. Since the current contract expired this morning at 12AM it means work actions, possibly a strike, could be looming. While management will try to step in and keep guest service levels running, you… Read More »Potential Strike coming to Disneyland Resort Hotels