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• “The Art of the Disney Princess” artfully re-imagines classic cartoon characters

  Jim Hill reviews this new Disney Editions book. Which features all sorts of unconventional takes on your favorite Disney Princesses Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, Disney Consumer Products, Beauty and the Beast, Disney Editions, The Haunted Mansion, Disney Princess, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Glen Keane, animated character, D23, 2009, animated feature, Belle, Jasmine, Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog, The Little Mermaid, D23 EXPO, Haunted Mansion, animated film

• “Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen” offers a twisted take on Disney's Snow White

  Jim Hill reviews Serena Valentino’s first novel. Which tells the story of Walt Disney’s first feature-length animated cartoon from the Queen's POV Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, musical, Walt Disney, Disney Press, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Crone, Disney Princess, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Serena Valentino, Heart Box, 2009, Wicked Queen, August, Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, Wicked, Gregory Maguire, 1937, Magic Mirror, Huntsman

• A special "May the (Stephen) Schwartz Be With You" edition of Why For

  Jim Hill's back with even more answers to your Disney-related questions. This time around, he talks about "Enchanted" 's score evolves over the course of that motion picture, where Stephen drew his inspiration for "Out There" as well as talking up an event that's being held at Woodbury University this coming Monday night Read More... Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, music, Broadway, musical, Disney Theatrical, Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, Kevin Lima, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, James Baxter, James Baxter Animation, Stephen Schwartz, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Paris, Kiss the Girl, ASIFA-Hollywood, panel discussion, stage version, ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, 2008, October, animated feature, 2007, Happy Working Song, So Close, That's How You Know , animators , Mulan, Belle, Warner Bros. , 2010, Don Hahn , stage, Woodbury University, Pocahontas, Broadway-bound, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Disney Music , Carol de Giere, Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked, Enchanted, The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age, Craig Lucas, James Lapine, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Out There, Quasimodo, Hunchback, Mike Belzer, Nik Ranieri, Fletcher Jones Foundation Library, Fletcher Jones, Ever After, Ever

• "Disney at Dawn" continues the adventures of the Kingdom Keepers

  Jim Hill reviews the latest installment of this Ridley Pearson series, an adventure book for young adults which is primarily set at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, Walt Disney, Walt Disney World, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Expedition Everest : Legend of the Forbidden Mountain, Disney's Hollywood Studios, The Magic Kingdom, Disney Editions, Sleeping Beauty, WDW, Expedition Everest, 2008, The Walt Disney World Resort, 2005, Cinderella Castle , behind-the-scenes , Maleficent, Ridley Pearson, The Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark, Kingdom Keepers II: Disney At Dawn, Kingdom Keepers, The Kingdom Keepers, Maharajah Jungle Trek, Kilimanjaro Safaris, Conservation Station, Wishes, Yeti