Archive for July 13th, 2008
A small world after all, but not how Disney meant it
Sunday, July 13th, 2008The beautiful but ultimately disillusioned stories in this book share a theme with variations on the nature of home, displacement and exile. It is billed as a novel only because characters whom we meet as protagonists in one chapter visit two or three others either in secondary or peripheral roles. In structure, the book is […]
Disney without tears
Sunday, July 13th, 2008The Magic Kingdom was packed with a record number of visitors sweating in long lines amid 100-degree temperatures on July 5, 1976, when I visited for the first time. My most vivid memory of that trip to Walt Disney World is the sobbing of children who were tired, hot, miserable and begging to go back […]
Redrawing Disney for the canvas, not the cel
Sunday, July 13th, 2008For the last four months, Orlando-based fine artist Tim Rogerson has been emulating the style fostered by the late animation maverick, painting Mickey, Donald and Goofy and adding a twist all his own. His 24-by-19-inch oil on canvas, “Micasso,” which he executed in March, is a playful, modernist rendering of Mickey Mouse as Pablo might have […]
Accidental Shooting at Downtown Disney
Sunday, July 13th, 2008The Orange County Sheriff’s Office received a telephone call in reference to a shooting in the parking lot near a theater complex at Downtown Disney on Saturday. The call apparently was made by the 12 year old son of a man who accidentally shot himself. According to investigators, it appears as though the man was […]
