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’1 percent’ moms hire disabled guides to cut lines at Disney
Wealthy mothers are foregoing FastPasses and hiring disabled tour guides so their families can skip long lines at Disney World. The New York Post reported on Tuesday that rich Manhattan mothers were paying “black-market Disney guides” as much as $130 an hour or $1,040 for an eight-hour day. “My daughter…
Disney to release ‘Star Wars: Episode 7′ in 2015
The Walt Disney Company announced Tuesday that it planned to release a seventh Star Wars film. Disney has acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion. The film studio was previously owned entirely by George Lucas, the creator of the iconic Star Wars and Indiana Jones series. Lucas will continue to work at…
Disney’s blonde ‘Latina princess’ draws fire from Latino activists
Once upon a time a major US animation studio crowned a character who was billed its first Latina princess. Then out came the big bad critics, and Disney ran away. Some fans were pleased that “Sofia the First” could have a Latina lead — after all, the European, African American,…
California-based group gets Disney to pledge to stop using rainforest paper
Publisher pledges to use alternative sources as activist rejoices: ‘The Jungle Book will no longer be destroying the jungle’ Environmentalists campaigning to prevent the wholesale destruction of the Indonesian rainforest scored a major victory today after coaxing the Walt Disney company, one of the world’s largest children’s books publishers, to…
Disney to ban junk-food ads on TV channels, websites
WASHINGTON — The Walt Disney Company, in a first for a US media giant, said Tuesday it will ban junk-food advertising on its TV channels and websites from 2015 to help fight obesity among US children. “This new initiative is truly a game changer for the health of our children,”…
‘John Carter’ film loses $200 million for Disney
LOS ANGELES — Critically-panned fantasy adventure film “John Carter” is expected to lose $200 million for makers Disney, dragging its whole movie budget into the red, the studio said Monday. Disney said it would take the huge operating loss on the movie, made by Oscar-winning director Andrew Stanton about a…
Obama seeks jobs boost from Chinese, Indian tourists
ORLANDO, Florida — US President Barack Obama went to Disney World on Thursday touting a new jobs-from-tourism plan, but a top Republican rival mocked his trip as new evidence he lived in a political “Fantasyland.” Obama unveiled a proposal to boost jobs in the crucial electoral swing state of Florida…
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