11.18.2009 5:05 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
My colleague Ted Rodgers shares:
Disney reportedly will start showing the Michael Jackson 3-D movie “Captain EO” at its theme parks in January. Jackson spent $30 million to make the movie and persuaded Francis Ford Coppola to direct, George Lucas to produce and Anjelica Huston to co-star in it. Disney played the movie at the parks in the 1980s and ’90s, then pulled it.

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06.25.2009 7:45 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Now here’s a blast-from-the-past TV theme song you’ll have stuck in your head all day.
When I was a kid, I always wondered how Scrooge McDuck managed to dive into his money pit and swim around in the opening titles of “Duck Tales.”
Well, I guess that was just Disney’s way of shielding youngsters from the harsh reality that you cannot do either of those things.

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04.12.2009 4:37 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Troy Bolton has a few words of wisdom for the new graduating class at East High. Namely: No one sings in college. Gasp!

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04.06.2009 2:44 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This video highlights a number of similarities in some animated Disney films. A little poking around on the Interwebs revealed that reusing animation and characters was a common tactic for keeping costs down, especially during an animator strike.

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10.24.2008 12:01 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Oct. 24 — finally! (Can you hear me over the screaming?) It’s been marked on our calendar for quite a while, and we’re probably not alone. “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” opens in theaters today.

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10.10.2008 3:53 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Halloween approaches. And what better way to get in the spirit than by watching these scenes from “Mary Poppins”?

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09.25.2008 5:56 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“From the makers of ‘The Mighty Ducks’ and ‘Syriana’ comes a comedy you legally have to see”:
We typically strive to be a nonpartisan blog. But this is an election year, and most of the good viral stuff is election related.
But it’ll all be over soon, and we can get back to watching videos of cats.

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