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My Lumbago Isn’t Acting Up: On Disney World July 13, 2023
On the first day, God said, “Let the atmospheric water vapors condense and become rain,” and so there was a downpour, and it was inconvenient. But we had ponchos. It was November at Disney World, and ponchos were like noses or smartphones in that eve...
Disney+ Sheds 4 Million Subscribers May 15, 2023
Walt Disney Co.’s streaming video business narrowed its financial losses in the most recent fiscal quarter compared with a year earlier....
Wall Street’s Streaming Warnings to Hollywood January 24, 2023
Hollywood is on the edge of the next phase in the streaming revolution as more and more executives and investors have come to realize how significant the implications of the transformation on the entertainment business and its profitability are....
Disney’s Next Big Move September 12, 2022
Bob Chapek won’t talk about whether an Encanto sequel is coming or not, but the Disney CEO makes it clear he has some very big plans for the company as it heads into its 100th anniversary in 2023.“We call it next-gen storytelling,” Chapek said backst...
Disney Shaped the Home Front During WWII July 13, 2022
A traveling exhibition traces how the animation studio mobilized to support the Allied war effort...
He Messed With the Mouse July 12, 2022
“My father was a Socialist,” Walt Disney told an interviewer in 1960. By that time Disney had become one of the world’s most visible self-made men. He’d improbably built a powerhouse multimedia empire with the aid of a carefree cartoon mouse, first s...
Who Killed Bambi? January 04, 2022
It never occurred to me that one day, I would review Bambi (the novel). If it had, I would not have expected that its story and backstory would, among other surprises, include the Nazis, a communist, pornography and talking leaves. In fact, I didn’t ...
How Disneyland Came to Be November 25, 2019
n a September Saturday in 1953, Herb Ryman was in his studio working on a painting when the phone rang. He answered it and heard Walt Disney say, “Hi, Herbie. I’m over here at the studio.” On a Saturday? Ryman asked. That made Disney testy. “Yes, it’...
