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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…was a result of the good reception I got at Disney from [Mickey, Donald, Goofy:] The Three Musketeers score. Brian Pimental, the director, attended some of the Musketeers sessions and… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…previsualize the film before shooting draws its roots back to the late 20s and the 30s in the world of Disney animation (going back as far as Mickey’s debut in… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…with the best of composers, since animation, be it for emotion or because of the trickiness of Mickey-Mousing, demands the most elaborate of scores. As John Debney once told me,… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…lent her vocals to the title ballad, and a flood of animation favorites provide voices, including Mickey Rooney, Rene Auberjonois, Nancy Cartwright, June Foray, Kathleen Freeman, Michael Gough, Sherry Lynn,… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…live-action approach in mind, helping the music play along and support the events on screen, rather than “Mickey Mousing” the action. But with BIA, he goes flat out Looney Tunes,… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…is essentially a trailer any longer! Other previews, also accessible from the Sneak Peek menu, include the Aladdin PE, The Incredibles teaser, Mickey’s Three Musketeers, the upcoming Mary Poppins SE,… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…well. The songs are great, but the score remains Menken’s blend of musical motif and often heavy-handed “Mickey Mousing” the action. He won another Oscar for it, so can’t have… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…the superb Mickey And The Gang book, plus Don Rosa Scrooge collections, and a new book on Carl Barks all worth a mention. Other classic comics receiving the deluxe treatment… |
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Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!
…see that, although it didn’t manage to garner any Oscar nominations (I’d have swapped Superman Returns‘ visual effects contender in a heartbeat), the Ben Stiller-Dick Van Dyke-Mickey Rooney triple-hander Night… |
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Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?
…and the park’s president describes Mickey as a cat with big ears! The best thing? The place has been operating for over 20 years! Unbelievable… Lastly today we’ve got a… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…including dramatic live-action, musicals, animation (including, of course, Zemeckis’ Roger Rabbit pal Richard Williams’ version and Disney’s own Mickey-take) and even an all-around applauded Muppets movie. Now rubber face Carrey… |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…year before Mickey tooted his way across the screen in Steamboat Willie in 1928), but the three-disc set will come packed with a collection of period cartoons, early sound era… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…Making the connection with Disney’s earliest success – in this case Mickey’s famous whistle from Steamboat Willie, his sound debut in 1928 – shows the kind of “back to the… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…Mickey’s Christmas Carol to the same trick of recreating the old Scrooge story with the Looney Tunes gang, with Yosemite Sam as the miser, Porky as Cratchitt, etc. Friz Freleng’s… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…This ethos is carried over into Ron Goodwin’s bombastic musical score, full of intentional Mickey Mouseing, heroic stabs, wobbly brass for Frobe’s perpetual misfit and slinky strings for the boo-hiss… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez on the Walt Disney Family Museum: a flame more alive than ever
…of his artists, Fred Spencer, were members. It was a series of comics published in their newsletter featuring Mickey and other prominent Disney characters that were never re-published, most of… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…Mr. Cherrywood (voiced by Mickey Rooney), then arrives and agrees to tell the children a story. The story is about the Care Bears, and it starts out with Wish Bear… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…adventure story devoid of any crassness or unnecessary pop culture references (though you may spot a Mickey head or two if you look!). Is This Thing Loaded? Note that the… |
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Princess winners, and a Curious new contest!
…the start of November. To win such titles as Lilo And Stitch, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and a stack more, head on over to Contest Corner to submit… |
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Prep & Landing
…by Disney. Sure, there was 1983’s Mickey’s Christmas Carol and there were certainly some good Winnie the Pooh Christmas specials, but none that made as much of a mark on… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…to complete the special from start to finish. While the featurette itself is interesting, I wish they could have had more interviews with the voice actors. Only Mickey Rooney (Santa… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…Penguin, but during his Mickey phase in the Rocky movies, plays his world domination-planning professor as a combination of Balboa’s boxing coach and, often in the same scene, as someone… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
…the freedom of his also kidnapped girlfriend, Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford, who had previously played a similar role opposite Mickey Rooney in his Andy Hardy series) and his radio sponsor’s… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…be Judy Garland singing with her siblings the Gumm Sisters. Comics Mickey Rooney, Harpo Marx, Keaton, Leon Errol and Charley Chase provide the laughs, Andy Devine turns up as a… |
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Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics
…being able to boast two bona fide legends such as Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney in your cast is no mean feat, especially when Astaire’s caricatured animated persona is also… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…comedies, not to mention voicing characters for Hanna-Barbera cartoons and other studios. Giant-sized Mickey Morton plays Solomon Grundy, making him the only one in the cast to be in both… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…the Epic Mickey video game, Disney Channel’s Phineas And Ferb: Across The 2nd Dimension and the latest in the Studio’s successful video premiere series, Spooky Buddies. The Main Menu is… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…from the Mickey And The Beanstalk sequence of Fun And Fancy Free, though even here they resort to none other than Joe Pesci’s shtick from Goodfellas! It just all feels… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…of Pooh featurettes, but by now the characters were as much a part of Disney as Mickey and the gang. Finally, all three films were combined as Walt originally envisioned… |
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!
…a multitude of direct-to-video productions including Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas,Pocahontas II: Journey to the New World and Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas. In 1999, he left Disney… |
