No, Reservoir Dogs has not come to Playhouse Disney, the Yellow Wiggle, aka Greg Page, has been forced to the sidelines by a rather nasty illness. Here’s wishing him a quick and speedy recovery. I wondered what was up when I kept seeing a new face in the promo shots for the live tour. Page… Read More »Wiggles lose Mr. Yellow
[Update: ed. – Bloomberg reports that the takeover attempt was announced this morning] Reuters is reporting that Euro Disney SCA (owner and operator of Disneyland Resort Paris) may be subject to a hostile takeover bid by the little-known swiss firm Center-Tainment AG. MarketWatch had this to say: A statement from Center-Tainment’s offices said the company… Read More »Euro Disney takeover bid?
Roy Disney, Walt’s Nephew, will be at the Egyptian Theatre on Thursday December 7th at 7:30pm for the release party of a new DVD. True-Life Adventures Vol 1 is the first release in the new Walt Disney’s Legacy Collection. Tickets are available for pre-sale on Fandago.com True-Life Adventures was a series of 13 groundbreaking film… Read More »Roy Disney At The Egyptian Theatre to promot True-Life Adventure DVD release
All across America tonight millions of kids are seeing yellow as they think about the lucky few thousand who are experiencing the opening night performance of High School Musical The Concert Tour in San Diego, CA. The 90 minute performance features most of the stars from the popular Disney Channel movie including songs from the… Read More »Disney’s High School Musical Concert Tour Launches Tonight
Dreamworks is releasing a movie version of the broadway musical Dreamgirls this Christmas. Beyonce Knowles is the big star, but everyone is talking about the new girl who was a finalist in American Idol, Jennifer Hudson. The Orlando Sentinel’s movie critic by Roger Moore met with Jennifer Hudson and they talked about her Disney past.… Read More »Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson has Disney Cruise Background
Disney runs two MMORGs, Virtual Magic Kingdom and Toontown Online. Only the former has been Mac compatible until last week. Now all Disney fans will be able to log on and enjoy the family oriented fun of Disney’s Toontown. Both MMORGs involve players completing quests for prizes (swag for VMK players and gags in the… Read More »Disney’s ToonTown MMORG now Mac Ready
Alas, it looks like poor ratings has done in ABC’s television series ‘The Nine.’ The show is going on a haitus and then the filmed, but unaired episodes will probably show on ABC Family sometime so the remaining fans of the show can enjoy the end of season one. It’s too bad. This show had… Read More »The Nine behind the Eight Ball
I distinctly remember when it hit me. I was walking out of
the theater back in 2001 after watching Atlantis: The Lost Empire and I had
this feeling like there was something just not quite right. Atlantis wasn’t a
horrible movie, so it wasn’t disappointment. It was just this nagging feeling
like there was something missing.
That was
when it hit me. There were no musical numbers.
It was a
startling revelation. I began to wonder, were my favorite Disney movies so
heavily influenced by music that the absence of a strong musical tie such a
shock that I actually disliked the movie for that reason?