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Disney War: Book of the Year?

You can vote for the Financial Times book of the year. Disney fans can vote their passion as DisneyWar by James Stewart is one of the choices. It looks like it might need a little help in the voting too, it’s running in last place… Read More »Disney War: Book of the Year?

Chicken Little Scandal!

We’ve already seen the pictures, the comparisions, the rumors. But BoingBoing has posted it now, and word will travel fast. Chicken Little and Looney Toons’ Egghead Jr. separated at birth? Could be? Is it an homage? or is it theft? We report, you go see the movie, Disney gets free advertising.

Glen Keane on Disney’s transition to CG Animation

Mr. Keane, a 31-year veteran who created the beast from "Beauty and the Beast" and Ariel from "The Little Mermaid," was a Disney traditionalist. But after a series of experiments to see if he could create a computer-animated ballerina, his opposition softened. So he invited the 50 animators to discuss the pros and cons of… Read More »Glen Keane on Disney’s transition to CG Animation

Abandoned Amusements

It used to be that all amusement parks ended up burned down, closed, or abandoned. Then Walt Disney came along and revolutionized the industry. I think we can all agree that was a good thing. Thanks to IllicitOhio.com we have a look at some amusement parks that were from before Walt’s time or didn’t heed… Read More »Abandoned Amusements

Lost spawns thickly plotted TV shows

If you liked that sexy mystery in "Desperate Housewives" and that crazy polar bear in the middle of the "Lost" tropics, get ready for a blizzard of aliens and monsters, romances and intrigues, unmatched in popular media since Rod Serling first put the Twilight Zone up for our national consideration. The CS Monitor has a… Read More »Lost spawns thickly plotted TV shows

Snow White and Pinnochio Classic Radio Casts

Old Radio Fun Blog has a trio of recent podcasts that will have Disney fans enthralled. First radio broadcast that promotes the movie Song of the South. Hard to get much material on this movie since Disney has deemed it too dangerous for release. Second is a historic audio broadcast from 1938 promotied the release… Read More »Snow White and Pinnochio Classic Radio Casts

Everything Bad is Good for You: Lost Edition

By genre, Lost is a disaster narrative — closest in spirit to the airplane disaster movies over the seventies, which were as a genre so awful that they spawned an entire sub-genre of parodies. But Lost’s creator J. J. Abrams — who co-wrote and directed the show’s breaktaking two-hour opening episode — announced in the… Read More »Everything Bad is Good for You: Lost Edition