It starts off looking like a normal murder. The ladies are called to a dead body dumped in a park. He’s a night security guard who lived just a block away. But the real problem becomes when they discover that his young wife was nine months pregnant. And is missing. Naturally, every resource of the… Read More »Women’s Murder Club: Maybe Baby
First there was the threat of a lawsuit by a group focused on providing Segways to disabled vets. Now a separate group of three have actually filed a suit against Disney to force them to allow them access to the park on their Segways. They’re asking for class-action status too; which would open the gates… Read More »Disney sued to allow Segway use by disabled
A email was sent out to Disney Dining Experience members this morning informing them of changes in the plan (good ones). Tagged on to the bottom of the letter was this: We would also like to inform you that the Walt Disney World® Resort will be implementing an across property policy change regarding gratuity at… Read More »Walt Disney World Dining to automatically add gratuity to DDE transactions
Ko Olina developer Jeff Stone is quoted in the Honolulu Advertiser stating that the Walt Disney Company will spend $1 billion dollars on the resort complex they recently announced. "This is an incredible feat for the state," said Stone. Disney is not only one of the largest companies in the world, it is the single… Read More »$1 Billion Budget for Disney’s Hawaii Resort?
I mentioned yesterday I was looking for striking writers who are currently picketing Disney and someone sent me the link to Plaintive Wail, writer Stephen Falk (which coincidentally is one of the pen names I’ve used in the past, but it’s not me, I swear). I debated overnight about linking to his site, not because… Read More »Picketing Disney Writers Blog the Strike
Originally it was thought that since animation writers were of a different union than the striking members of the WGA that animation production would be a safe haven during this strike. But that’s turning out to not be true, at least for tv animation. The reason? Showrunners see themselves as part writers and are joining… Read More »Writer’s Strike not Affecting Animation? Think again.
The Walt Disney Company announced significantly increased earnings for 4th quarter 2007 as well as the year as a whole. For the year, earnings per share (profit divided by shares outstanding) grew from $1.64 in ’06 to $2.25 in ’07. This included one times benefits from the sale of E! Entertainment and Us Weekly. Excluding… Read More »Increased Earnings for 2007
I found this over on Seward Street. Watch as a woman has an amazing emotional reaction to the trailer for Pixar’s Wall-E. Wow. The power of a great story is the power of Pixar. Anybody else experience something similar?