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Mickey Becomes a Rat And We All Like It: Why Are Our Heroes All Dark?

Lennard Davis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, Television, Don Draper, House, Damages, Larry David, Mickey Mouse, Leave It to Beaver, Mickey Mouse Video Game, Ozzie and Harriet, Walt Disney, Epic Mickey, Entertainment News
Lennard Davis

What's happened to Mickey? I read today that Disney is about to launch a new Mickey video game in which our hero's sunny personality is going dark side.

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EMA's: Introducing the Legacy Award

Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Paramount Studios, Walt Disney, Big-Cats, National Geographic, Values, Gorillas, Environment, Walt Disney Company, Environmentalism, Lions, Environmental Media Association, Media, Legacy, Disney, Cheetahs, Debbie Levin, Green News
Kevin George

The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.

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Who Wants Yesterday's Frameworks?

Paul David Walker | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: U.S. Economy, Living, Business, New Realities, Jack Welch, Walt Disney, Business Frameworks, Living News
Paul David Walker

One of my mentors had said to me years ago, "Do you want to be right, or win." My thought sounded like Jack Welch, "I want both."

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Disney Expands Refunds On "Baby Einstein" DVDs

New York Times | Tamar Lewin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Baby Einstein Refund, Walt Disney, Baby Einstein DVD, Baby Einstein Video, Baby Einstein, Business News

Parent alert: the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those "Baby Einstein" videos that did not make children into geniuses. They may...

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Of Darwin, Disney, God,
and William Burroughs

Jan Herman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Andre Perkowski, Walt Disney, William Burroughs, Malcolm Mc Neill, Charles Darwin, Home News
Jan Herman

Darwin simply redefined God as a kind of super Walt Disney who changes one thing into another on a whim. Life has been viewed as an animated cartoon ever since.

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Rich Ross Named Disney Studio Chairman

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Walt Disney, Disney Studios, Disney, Rich Ross, Dick Cook Replacement, Media News

LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. on Monday named Disney Channels Worldwide top executive Rich Ross as its movie studios chairman, following a y...

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Disney Rewards Volunteers With Free Park Admission

Posted 09.30.2009 | Impact

Read More: Walt Disney, Volunteering, Volunteer, Disney World, Disney, Free Admission, Hands on Network, Disneyland, Impact News

The Walt Disney Co. just unveiled its Give a Day, Get a Disney Day campaign in partnership with Hands On Network to inspire one million people to volu...

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Celebrating Purchase of Marvel, Disney Reveals Wolverine 2 Trailer

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Walt Disney, Xmen, Satire, Parody, Mickey Mouse, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men, Political Satire, Hugh Jackman, Disney, Comedy News
Matthew Filipowicz

The Disney corporation made quite a splash today. Not only did they acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, they released a trailer for the highly anticipated X-Men Origins: Wolverine II.

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Michael Vick To Co-Star With Benji In New Disney Film

Tom McCaffrey | Posted 09.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Walt Disney, Atlanta Falcons, National Football League, Athletes, Football, Quarterback, Tom McCaffrey, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Sports, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, Bitch, The Boy Who Could Fly, Dog Fighting, Professional Athletes, Disney, Michael Vick, Benji, Satire, Comedy News
Tom McCaffrey

Kobe Bryant is following Vick's lead and is currently in talks to play the lead in the reimagining of "The Boy Who Could Fly" called "The Boy Who Could Fly and Also Never Raped anyone in a Hotel Room in Colorado."

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G-Force: Disney's Loveable Rodent Gets an AK-47

Tom Gregory | Posted 08.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Safety, Walt Disney, G-Force, War in Afghanistan, Alcohol. Tobacco, Right Wing, Militias, Hollywood, Tsa, Gang Violence, Mickey Mouse, Iraq War, Firearms, Disney, Video Games, Summer Blockbuster, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

This week Disney launched its D-Day assault. With the advertisements for G-Force gracing every highway across America, big artillery has reached the "cute" stage.

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America's Biggest Brands: Iconic Or Overexposed? (SLIDESHOW, VOTE)

Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Google, Walt Disney, America's Biggest Brands, Apple, Nike, America's Most Iconic Brands, Slidepoll, Starbucks, Coca Cola, Over-Exposed, Levi Strauss, Wal-Mart, Mcdonalds, Business News

In the money-hungry world of corporate America, is there such a thing as too much of a good thing? In the case of mega-brands like Wal-Mart, Starbucks...

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German Donald Duck Obsession Persists After 75 Years

Deutsche Welle | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Walt Disney, Donald Duck Obsession, Germany, Foreign Affairs, Mickey Mouse, German Donald Duck Obsession, Donald Duck, Germany Donald Duck, Disney, Donald Duck Germany, Advocacy, World News

The Walt Disney cartoon character Donald Duck is turning 75. He is famous around the world, but no country seems to be quite as obsessed with the quac...

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Pixar Throws Down, with Up

Paul Snyder | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Warner Bros, Walt Disney, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Up, 3-D Movies, Bob Peterson, Merchandise, Mgm, Cars, The Incredibles, Pixar, Partly Cloudy, Studios, Animation, Coraline, Pete Docter, Cgi, Ed Asner, Toy Story, Ageism, Disney, Entertainment News
Paul Snyder

Fifteen years since the release of Toy Story, Pixar has made it very clear that they would like to be considered a movie studio in the classic sense: their films all seem to illustrate a singular creative perspective.

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Hannah Montana: The Movie (3rd draft, by Tom Stoppard)

Spencer Green | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Horses, Walt Disney, Hannah Montana, Tom Stoppard, Cows, Existence, Movies, Miley Cyrus, Comedy News
Spencer Green

Hannah: Staring at these grazing ungulates, I question my own identity. Are they better off masticating the dew-flecked herbage below them, unaware of the charnelhouse that awaits?

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Forcing Mickey

Suz Redfearn | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Walt Disney, Mulan, Disney World, Haunted Mansion, Two Year Old, Cinderella, Mickey Mouse, Comedy News
Suz Redfearn

We are headed to Disney World in a matter of days, and we are not going to have our two year old's first trip to the Magic Kingdom suck because she doesn't have a clue who Mickey and Minnie are.

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The SNL FAQ: Zac Efron and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Sean L. McCarthy | Posted 05.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Walt Disney, Satire, Parody, Today Show, High School Musical, Snl, Saturday Night Live, Joe Biden, Hoda Kotb, Kathie Lee Gifford, Eliot Spitzer, Comedy, Barack Obama, Nbc, Kristen Wiig, Comedy News
Sean L. McCarthy

It's Sunday. You have questions about last night's Saturday Night Live. We have answers.

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Dreamworks Said To Be Headed To Disney

New York Times | BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY | Posted 03.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Walt Disney, Dreamworks, Disney, Steven Spielberg, Business News

Steven Spielberg seems headed to the Walt Disney Company after a surprise parting of the ways with Universal Pictures, with whom he signed a deal jus...

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Economic Downturn Hits Disney

Reuters | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Walt Disney, Disney Company, Disney, Walt Disney Profits, Disney Profits, Business News

The global economic downturn hit Walt Disney Co's quarterly results harder and faster than Wall Street expected, with the company on Thursday reportin...

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Sex and the Story

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 07.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Walt Disney, Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw, Stories, Sex and the City, Movies, Entertainment News
Lisa Dale Norton

It doesn't matter to me if gasoline reaches $5.00 per gallon, which I'm sure it will shortly, movies are in my life to stay. I can't live without story.

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Dubailand Lead Parade Of New International Theme Parks

Los Angeles Times | Kimi Yoshino | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Dubai, Universal Studios, Walt Disney, Busch Entertainment, Mideast, Abu Dhabi, Six Flags, Far East, Theme Parks, United Arab Emirates, Dreamworks, Dubailand, Business News

From the Los Angeles Times' report on the growth of theme parks abroad, particularly in the Middle East: Twenty-five years after Walt Disney Co. bega...

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Christian Filmmakers Accuse Disney's Heirs Of Flouting "Biblical Values"

Reuters | Gina Keating | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Walt Disney, Christian Filmmakers Academy, Religious Filmmaking, Christian Filmmakers, Media News

Hundreds of Christian filmmakers gathered on Monday in Texas to study entertainment pioneer Walt Disney and how they believe his corporate heirs at th...

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