Hey, Marie and I met Cubby and Sharon yesterday at the amazing Walt Disney Family Museum. (It would be even more wonderful, incidentally, if its gift shop sold books such as Mike Barrier’s The Animated Man, Jim Korkis’s The Vault of Walt, and Didier Ghez’s Walt’s People volumes.)
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Okay, now this is getting even more weird and depressing. First, a playwright stages a work depicting Walt Disney as a Nazi sympathizer, and claims that Walt’s hatred of Jews and Blacks is well-documented. And now a Norwegian museum official is claiming that he’s found drawings of Pinocchio, Bashful, and Doc that were done by [...] I’m not going to bid on this, but would understand if you decide to enter the frenzy. (Thanks to my sis for the link.) Normally, I think of this blog as a refuge from controversy, not a hotbed of it. But John J. Powers, author of the play about Walt Disney and Hitler I reviewed recently, has written to me and Mike Barrier to protest our posts about his work. (I first learned about the play over at Mike’s [...] SPOILER ALERT! If you plan on seeing Disney in Deutschland at San Francisco’s Next Stage Theater–or simply have a weak stomach–read no further… I’m just a slave to temptation: After reading about John J. Powers’ play at MichaelBarrier.com, I spent my Saturday night sitting through it. (The theater, incidentally, is in a church about a mile [...] |
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