| New Disney bio focuses on his genius | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:09:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" (Knopf. 851 Pages. $35) ? Neal Gabler: The time is ripe for a fresh look at one of the world's most ignored geniuses who, during five decades, changed the way Americans looked at movies and amusement parks and the way the rest of the world looked at America. .... | |
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| | | Walt Disney World Desktops, Set Two | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:12:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Today we offer up another selection of dekstop photos from Frank Anzalone's recent trip to Walt Disney World. We hope you enjoy these as much as you've said you enjoyed his other sets. For those who have asked, we'll continue to offer just 1024x768 and 800x600 for today's set and upcoming sets from this trip. However, in future sets after those, we'll begin offering larger formats (including widescreen) as well. The Walt Disney World Monorail. A long shot of Mt. Everest. The Tree of Life. A sign for The Tree of Life. Mt. Everest. Dino-Rama Entrance. The monorail in Future World. Spaceship Earth from Epcot Entrance. Spaceship Earth from Future World side.... | |
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| | | Disney's Iger Talks Nutrition as Theme Parks Sell Fat (Update3) | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 11:03:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Before he became chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co. last year, Robert Iger personally responded to concerns about selling kids junk food voiced by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. ``I rarely get a call from the CEO,'' said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director of the Washington-based group, recalling the February 2005 phone call from Iger. ``He said nutrition is a concern for them and he wanted to assure me that they were looking at this very closely.'' Iger, 55, who declined to be interviewed, might start with his own U.S. amusement parks, visited by an estimated 63.3 million people a year. A nutritional analysis by a Bloomberg- hired lab found that Disney's Magic Kingdom near Orlando, Florida, serves food with more fat, salt and calories than McDonald's Corp., the usual target for criticism about making kids fat.... | |
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| | | Little Nika and her digital artvocacy | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:14:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | It was by accident that six-year-old Nika Manzano discovered digital painting in August 2005. She was navigating the family PC to watch her favorite Walt Disney movie, but instead found her little hand glued to the mouse, pointing and clicking away to what became her first work of art. After that innocent but fateful episode, life for this little girl changed from a typical bubbly school kid to some sort of celebrity in the local art community. Now eight years old, her works captivate even the imagination of serious art connoisseurs and critics. They say her pieces manifest intellectual depth and exhibit a dramatic and powerful verve, with the MS Paint and Adobe Photoshop programs, in place of an easel and brush. Her first solo exhibit of 30 paintings at the MegaKid 2006 Summer Workshop at SM Megamall proved to be another great revelation to her audience who were held in awe while she eloquently and extemporaneously delivered her opening remarks.... | |
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| | | Disney sets aside $400K in scholarships for Florida Classic rivals | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:41:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Walt Disney World announced Monday that it will commit $400,000 in scholarships to Bethune-Cookman College and Florida A&M when the two schools meet later this year in the Florida Classic at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. The contribution brings Disney's total financial investment to the two schools to $2.3 million in scholarships. .... | |
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| | | Disney chooses diverse sailing crew for race to Hawaii | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:05:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | ROY E. DISNEY is best known for making movies ? and a shareholder revolt that shook up his Uncle Walt's company. But for much of his life the role he's loved most has been performed on the water ? sailing. He has set records around the world and won the West's most prestigious ocean race. Last summer, after finishing the Los Angeles-to-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Race, organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club, he announced his retirement from competition. To quote his wife, Patty: Yeah, right. One year later, at 76, Disney is back on deck ? this time assembling the race's youngest and most diverse crew in what he calls the "white bread" sport of sailing. And he's making a documentary to show how teaming disparate individuals to race across 2,225 miles of sea is naturally more gripping than any contrived reality show.... | |
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| | | Kathleen Vogel -- April 2006 - Walt Disney World (FWC) | | Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 5:41:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Somehow, and exactly what transpired I cannot clearly remember, our local Cub Scout pack decided to host a trip to Walt Disney World in order to take advantage of the wonderful youth group program that Disney offers. Being the Disney lover I am I offered to spearhead the committee to plan the trip. Somehow the committee ended up being ME. I happily contacted Disney Youth Groups, and was sent all the required information. Since this was a scout trip we decided that we would camp, although that was not a requirement to take part in activities. Only two families ended up camping. Disney offers groups the camping option of "The Meadow", a wide-open field in which to pitch your tents. Keep in mind I had one previous tent camping experience, and it wasn’t pretty. Camping in leaky tents during a rainstorm on Cape Cod with my husband and our three children ages 1, 5,and 6.... | |
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| | | Can Disney's magic ride on stock market continue? | | Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:04:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | In his first 10 months on the job, Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger launched into a frenzy of deal making and corporate reshaping that helped drive the stock price more than 20 percent higher. Now, as the dust settles, investors have shifted their gaze to next year, and some don't like what they see, prompting a string of analyst downgrades and estimate tweaks. But while the bears have flagged a variety of concerns -- from tough earnings comparisons at Disney's theme parks to the rising cost of sports rights -- a number of swing factors in the next year could come to the rescue. Among them: a recent round of cost-cutting at Disney's movie studio, the blockbuster performance of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and a shift in the amortization of the company's deal with the National Football League.... | |
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| | | Walt Disney sells $750 mln in notes | | Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:09:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | July 13 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) sold $750 million in five-year medium-term senior notes, said joint lead manager Barclays Capital on Thursday. The size of the deal was increased from an originally planned $500 million. Banc of America Securities LLC and Credit Suisse were the other joint lead managers for the sale. BORROWER: WALT DISNEY CO. AMT $750 MLN COUPON 5.70 PCT MATURITY 7/15/2011 TYPE MTN SR NOTES ISS PRICE 99.808 FIRST PAY DATE 1/15/2007 LAST MOODY'S A3 YIELD 5.745 PCT PAY FREQ SEMI-ANNUAL LAST S&P A-MINUS SPREAD 70 BPS MAKE-WHOLE CALL 12.5 BPS MORE THAN TREAS MORE THAN TREAS © Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. .... | |
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| | | Woman Loses Consciousness After Riding Disney Attraction | | Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:01:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | ORLANDO, Fla. -- Authorities said a woman lost consciousness while getting off a Walt Disney World ride, which two people have died on in the past 13 months. Reedy Creek fire officials said the 35-year-old woman was getting off Mission: Space when she fell Monday night. Her name has not been released. She told rescue workers, they said, that she had tingling in her arms and hands and was taken by helicopter to the hospital in stable condition. A Disney spokeswoman said a theme park worker with the family told the company she was treated at the hospital and released. Mission: Space spins and subjects riders to twice the normal force of gravity. There is also a lower-intensity version of the ride that does not spin. It is unclear which version the woman was on.... | |
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