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...Bhutan, by contrast, had no television then, no daily newspapers, only medieval buildings. Its capital, Thimphu, basked in a stainless quiet in which everyone wore traditional, medieval clothing (as they still do), and fewer tourists arrived in a year than pile into Disneyland in an hour. The young King Jigme Singye Wangchuk was pursuing a policy of "Gross National Happiness" which said that peace was as important as plenty, and immaterial needs were at least as important as material. There is a point of diminishing returns in development, he was suggesting (in terms that more and more people now heed...
Iger recognized his problem at the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland last fall, as he watched old Mickey, Goofy and Donald parade by and realized that if he wanted new characters--for video games, theme-park rides, live stage plays--he needed the whiz kids in Emeryville. "Animation films are such a driving part of our company," says Cook. "We just said, 'Wow, this is where it all starts, and this is what we've got do.' It hit home...
...Trouble is, he is one of those annoying people who don't seem to care much about more money. In 1998 he told TIME he was staying at Pixar because that was where his friends and toys were. Investors should hope he will find new friends and toys at Disneyland...
...last week, but only an estimated 60,000 people are spending the night in New Orleans these days, compared with about half a million before Katrina. The city that care forgot is in the throes of an identity crisis, torn between its shady, bead-tossing past and the sanitized Disneyland future some envision. With no clear direction on whether to raze or rebuild, the 300,000 residents who fled the region are frustrated--and increasingly indecisive--about returning. If they do come back, will there be jobs good enough to stay for? If they do rebuild, will the levees...
...Disney employee, even though I continue to work for the company on numerous projects. They include a test with Roger Rabbit animated in CG to prove we could do a squashy-stretchy character, a stereoscopic CG version of Aladdin's genie and, most recently, CG animation for Disneyland's 50th-anniversary TV spots. Is my first love hand-drawn animation? Absolutely. Am I going to continue animating and directing in hand-drawn whenever possible? You bet. But resisting the switch to CG? Puh-leeze. Eric Goldberg Glendale, California...