Salt Lake Tribune - Peter Behn of Park City has been a husband, a dad, a grandpa, a home builder and a real-estate broker. But to some people, he’ll always be best known as someone else - someone he became almost 70 years ago.
A rabbit.
Behn was the voice of Thumper in the Disney animated […]
The Sunday Times UK - It is often said that popular cinema was infantilised by the birth of the blockbuster in the mid1970s. But this diagnosis fails to take into account one striking fact: if adult-oriented film-making has suffered from dumbing down, children�s films are more sophisticated and, well, grown-up. Nowhere is this more […]
NY Daily News - The Disney Channel will turn into the Rock Channel for a night.
Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson will appear on episodes of Disney’s “Cory in the House” and “Hannah Montana,” Sept. 21, just days before his new Disney film, “The Game Plan,” hits theaters.
Johnson will be first seen at 8 p.m. in […]
Hollywood Reporter - Disney Channel has lined up a slew of name talent to voice recurring and guest-starring roles in its new animated series “Phineas and Ferb.”
Malcolm McDowell, Allison Janney, John O’Hurley, Jane Carr and Barry Bostwick have signed on for recurring roles in the music-heavy, 2-D animated comedy, while Sandra Oh, Steve Zahn, […]
Broadway World - With its final performance this Sunday, September 9, Disney’s pre-Broadway engagement of The Little Mermaid has sold-out its entire seven week run at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Featuring the Oscar-winning score and music from the 1989 film, eight-time Academy Award-winner Alan Menken has […]
New York Post - September 10, 2007 — THE bosses up at ESPN may not realize it, but tonight is one of the biggest in ESPN�s history. Tonight is when ESPN conclusively proves that it gets it or that it just doesn�t care, and whether it considers you a valued and intelligent customer or […]
The Hollywood Reporter - TORONTO — Commercial director Joseph Kosinski is in final negotiations to develop and direct “Tron,” described as “the next chapter” of Disney’s 1982 cult classic. Sean Bailey is producing via the Live Planet banner, as is Steven Lisberger, who co-wrote and directed the original film.
Kosinski, who last month signed on […]
Variety - Walt Disney Television is axing its femme-skewed U.K. daytime web ABC1.
Company topper John Hardie said the two-year-old net couldn�t generate enough advertising coin because it was available only during the day on Freeview, Blighty�s digital terrestrial platform.
�While ABC1 successfully found a strong audience in daytime, the inability to get access to a […]
Disney Television
* Mickey Mouse Club Scrapbook by Keith Keller (Grosset & Dunlap, 1975)
* The Official Mickey Mouse Club Book by Lorraine Santoli (Hyperion, 1995)
* The Wonderful World of Disney Television by Bill Cotter (Hyperion, 1997)
Lost to end in 2010
Lost Image PromoAnyone who listens to the official Lost Podcast knows that the executive directors have always wanted the show to end on their terms. In fact, they have been lobbying to choose an end date so the show won’t get cut abruptly. Their rationale is simple, the show can’t work […]
