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• The John Hughes / ABC / Walt Disney Company connection

  In honor of the passing of this talented filmmaker, Jim Hill shares a few anecdotes that reflect on the times that Hughes worked for the Mouse Read More... Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: Disney, movies, Universal Studios, Walt Disney, ABC, Walt Disney Pictures, Michael Eisner, Hollywood Pictures, Disneyland, 101 Dalmatians, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Walt Disney Productions, The Walt Disney Company, Ron Miller, television, Harold Ramis, Jim Belushi, Walt Disney Studios, Home Alone, film, movie, Vacation '58, Mouse House, Walley World, 1950s, TV show, 1997, Mickey, The Absent-Minded Professor, film title, Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II, writer , The Breakfast Club, 1996 , Robin Williams, Great Oaks Entertainment, Jackie Chan, Warner Bros. , John Hughes, director , Pretty in Pink, National Lampoon, National Lampoon's Animal House, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, vacation, cross country trip , Michelle Pfieffer, The Bee, Flubber, Faber College, slapstick, family vacation, screenplay, script, Curly Sue, motion picture, Jaws 3 People 0, 1990, television show , Ricardo Mestres, 1990s, 1991, films, producer, 1979, Delta House, National Lampoon's Vacation, TV series, Sixteen Candles, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Disneyland Park, Eddie Bracken

• "They'll Never Put That on the Air" reveals how to grow a hit television series

  Jim Hill reviews Allan Neuwirth's latest book. In which TV veterans talk about how they took shaky new shows and eventually turned them into smash hits like "M*A*S*H," "All in the Family" and "Seinfeld" Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: book, ABC, Michael Eisner, CBS, NBC, Fox, Seinfeld, television, William S. Paley, Tom Moore, Swoosie Kurtz, Stephanie Lemelin, Sam Huntington, Orbit the Dog, Norman Lear, Nick Kroll, Martin Starger, Lucille Ball, Leonard Goldberg, Lee Pace, Larry Gelbart, Kristen Chenoweuth, Kaitlin Doubleday, Julie White, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Jackie Gleason, Glen Hanson, George Schlatter, Gene Reynolds, Fred Silverman, Emmy Awards, Ellen Greene, Dick Martin, Dan Rowan, Chi McBride, Carl Reiner, Brandon Tartikoff, Bill English, Barry Diller, Jim Belushi, Anna Friel, Allan Neuwirth, They'll Never Put That on the Air: An Oral History of Taboo-Breaking TV Comedy, The Honeymooners, Pushing Daisies, Laugh-In, Here's Lucy, Gunsmoke, Cavemen, Bewitched, All in the Family

• "This Time, This Place" takes readers behind-the-scenes at the White House, Hollywood as well as at Walt Disney Studios

  Jim Hill reviews Jack Valenti's memoir, which features a surprising amount of material about the Chairman of the MPAA's dealing with the Walt Disney Company Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: ABC, Bob Iger, Michael Eisner, Dick Cook, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Jack Valenti, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Ovitz, Frank Wells, Sid Bass, Sid Sheinberg, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Al Checchi, Richard Frank, Walt Disney Productions, The Walt Disney Company

• Monday Mouse Watch : The reel / real story behind Disney-MGM Studios' upcoming name change

  Jim Hill reports on how the lack of film & television production at WDW's 3rd theme park may lead to one more name change in the not-so-distant future Read More... Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 12:00 AM | 38 Comments Filed under: movies, theme park, Why For, Muppets, attraction, Imagineering, ABC, Michael Eisner, Muppet Studios, Walt Disney World, Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios theme park, Orlando, George Lucas, Florida Film Commission, Innoventions, Communicore, Epcot 94

• As "Tarzan" swings off Broadway, is Beyoncé getting ready to play Aida in Disney's next big movie musical?

  Jim Hill's back with even more answers to your Disney-related question. In this week's "Why For," he talks about how the Wiggles wound up at Six Flags, shares the latest news on the "Song of the South" DVD, sounds off about "Soarin'" & "Der Glockner Von Notre Dame" and ... Oh, yeah ... Reveals the latest rumors surrounding the studio's upcoming big screen adaptation of "Aida" Read More... Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 12:00 AM | 15 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, music, theater, theme park, TV, Why For, Pixar, Broadway, musical, attraction, ABC, Disney Channel, traditional animation, computer animation, CG, Walt Disney Pictures, Michael Eisner, Dick Cook, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Epcot