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Blog Post:
Toon Tuesday : Want to help chart Pixar's future? Then be sure and take that animation studio's online survey
Jim Hill
As part of their classic comedy routine, " The 2000 Year Old Man ," Carl Reiner asked Mel Brooks what he attributed his amazing longevity to. To which Mel replied: "I never, ever touch fried food. And I never run for a bus. There'll always be another." I bring up Brooks' bus joke for a reason. In that...
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6 Aug 2007
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Why For do the Imagineers keep adding new characters to Disney's classic theme park attractions?
Jim Hill
Earlier this week, Perry T. sent me the following e-mail : Jim, Are you as sick as I am about how the Imagineers keep forcing characters into older attractions at the Disney theme parks? Just in the past six months, we've had that new " Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor " show replace the Magic Kingdom 's old...
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21 Jun 2007
Blog Post:
"The Dream Team" serves up some intriguing insights about how the New Hollywood really operates
Jim Hill
In October of 1994, when Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg first announced that they were about to launch a brand-new entertainment company ... Well, this trio of show business vets was thought to be so unstoppable that the Hollywood press corps dubbed them the Dream Team. But 11...
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17 Apr 2007
Blog Post:
Wandering the halls with Roy E. Disney
Jim Hill
To hear Roy Disney tell the tale, he basically owes his entire career in animation to his mother needing a babysitter. "When my Mother needed to go shopping, she'd drop me off with my Dad's office," Roy explained. "And my Dad would eventually say 'Get out of my office and find someone else to play with...
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11 Apr 2007