Category: Misc
From bostonherald.com:
Sharon Stone’s suggestion that her 8-year-old son get Botox injections to rid him of smelly feet is just one of her many parenting overreactions detailed in court papers released the other day.
The 50-year-old actress was shot down last week by a San Francisco Superior Court judge when she sought to modify a 2007 custody decision that gave primary parenting duties for Roan to her ex-hubby, Phil Bronstein.
The court contended that Stone is a drama queen of a mother who has gone off the deep end over and over, and refused the “Basic Instinct” star’s request to move her son to Los Angeles for “better medical attention.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on October 1, 2008 at 1:46 pm · Permalink
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From orlandosentinel.com:
In this undated Metropolitan Police handout, x-ray images show how a teenage boy cheated death when a five inch knife was plunged into his head. The 16-year-old and two other young men were injured when they tried to stop a friend being robbed at a bus stop. He was rushed to hospital with the kitchen knife still stuck in his forehead after the attack in Walworth, south London.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on September 30, 2008 at 9:16 am · Permalink
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From metoperafamily.org:
Gerard Mortier, New York City Opera’s general-manager and artistic-director designate, announced today that the company has commissioned Philip Glass to compose a new opera based on the life of Walt Disney. The opera, titled The Perfect American, is scheduled to open the City Opera’s 2012-13 season, and will honor Philip Glass’s seventy-fifth birthday.
Based on Peter Stephan Jungk’s novel Der König von Amerika, in which a fictional Austrian cartoonist recounts the unseemly final months of Walt Disney’s life, The Perfect American will be staged in a production by the Improbable theater company, which took part in the Metropolitan Opera’s recent presentation of Glass’s earlier opera Satyagraha. The Perfect American will be Glass’s twenty-fourth opera.
“The story of the last days of Walt Disney, American icon and creator of perhaps the most pervasive fantasy world on our planet, is surprisingly gripping and at times disturbing,” Glass said in a statement issued today by City Opera. “But, on the face of it, how could it be anything else? The pulse of his life has to be the pulse of our own American culture. And, like other aspects of life here, it is unimaginable, alarming, and truly frightening. I am looking forward to beginning these collaborations with Gerard Mortier at the New York City Opera.”
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Posted by Dr. Disney on September 29, 2008 at 12:17 pm · Permalink
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www.davidblaine2009.com
Now that David Blaine has hung himself upside down for 60 days, immersed himself inside a water ball and has caught a bullet in a metal cup in his mouth, he feels he is ready for his most amazing feat of self-abuse yet. He has decided to run for President of the United Sates.
“I am going to train hard, but I don’t know if my body can take the constant criticism and mental anguish — I am only human after all, ” Blaine responded when asked about the challenge in a press conference in Washington DC. Always trying to make any stunt as difficult as possible, Blaine said he would ask Larry Craig to be his vice-presidential running mate.
Medical experts have advised Blaine not to run. “It could kill him,” said Dr. Thomas Reid of the Mayo Institute. Blaine reported that he will prepare for the challenge by banging his head against the wall of his training gym for eight hours a day. “I hope it is enough, ” Blaine said.
(Ok…Ok…not true — but you have to admit that would be abusive.) Dr. Disney
Posted by Dr. Disney on September 25, 2008 at 5:41 am · Permalink
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From orlandosentinel.com:
The person who died in this morning’s fatal accident involving two tractor-trailers, including one that spilled $182,000 in nickels on Interstate 95, was a 61-year-old man from Maryland, the Florida Highway Patrol just announced.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on September 17, 2008 at 6:26 pm · Permalink
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From star-ecentral.com:
Hayao Miyazaki with actress Tomoko Yamaguchi, who voices Sosuke’s mother, Lisa, at the screening of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea at a Tokyo theatre on July 19
Not since his masterpiece My Neighbor Totoro has Hayao Miyazaki even attempted a film aimed almost entirely at young children. But now, with Gake no Ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea), the auteur brings us a fun, simple and lighthearted tale of love and family.
Very loosely based on The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, Ponyo, which was released in Japan in July, tells the story of a young fish girl who is rescued by a five-year-old boy named Sosuke (Hiroki Doi) after she is trapped inside an empty jar while sunning herself on a jellyfish. She and the boy, who promptly names her Ponyo (a Japanese onomatopoeic term meaning soft and plump), hit it off, and Ponyo (Yuria Nara) decides she loves him and wants to be human.
The feeling is mutual, leaving Sosuke in a funk when Ponyo’s father, a sorcerer named Fujimoto (George Tokoro) who gave up on humanity to live in the sea, takes her home and tries to convince her to give up on becoming one of those horrible humans.
But the young Ponyo is smitten, and thanks to a little magic she has picked up – and Sosuke’s DNA, which she got by licking a cut on his thumb – she sprouts two legs and two arms, and turns herself into a five-year-old girl.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on September 15, 2008 at 12:48 pm · Permalink
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From printfection.com:
Perfect shirts for your day together at the park!
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Posted by Dr. Disney on September 12, 2008 at 5:14 pm · Permalink
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Congratulations to Target staff for their willingness to conduct extensive grocery bag stress testing. Their dedication to making sure grocery bags are tested and strained to their limits insures guests of a quality experience. My wife came home tonight with groceries which I took out of the car and brought in — only then did I realize how far Target’s crackerjack team would go to test the paper tolerances of their grocery bags.
One bag contained:
Taco chips, spaghetti sauce, applesauce, taco shells, ranch dressing, nutrition bars, baked beans, two 24 oz peaches, mushrooms, three tuna salad kits, salsa, 2 mac/cheese, oatmeal, vanilla and vegetable oil.
It weighed in at 20.6 pounds. Way to go Target team!
But they don’t stop there! They also test the capacity limits of their bags – not content to just restrict your purchases to the rectangular shape of the bag, they pack it until it becomes round. Amazing!
Congratulations Target for letting your team experiment with my groceries for the good of all Target shoppers everywhere. (And just think of how you are helping the elderly guests with their core muscle training with those 20 pound bags to lift!) Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Posted by Dr. Disney on September 11, 2008 at 8:48 pm · Permalink
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Category: Misc, Movies
From beststuff.com:
“ BodySound Technologies, Inc, today announced a unique product concept at CEDIA, which allows users to personalize their sound space and create a movie theater experience at safe sound levels. The BodySound chair infuses the user with full-spectrum sound by placing the user at the source of the sound. This enables them to hear better and feel more. Users feel a pleasant, stimulating audio-induced vibration as the sound resonates throughout their body.
The BodySound chair is a high-end entertainment system containing an embedded, wireless amplifier with six strategically placed audio speakers. Multiple users in close proximity can experience very different sound levels and feeling intensity. Three features allow users to customize the sound in their immediate space. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on September 9, 2008 at 9:50 am · Permalink
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From orlandosentinel.com:
The Disney Magic cruise ship will get a splash pool themed around the movie “Fantasia,” new 22-inch, LCD television sets in cabins and a series of other upgrades during a nearly three-week stay in dry dock later this month.
Disney says the 385-square-foot “Mickey’s Splash Zone” will be added onto the Mickey Pool on the ship’s deck nine. Themed around the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” segment in Fantasia, it will feature star- and moon-shaped fountains and splash areas (including, Disney says, an area for “children not yet toilet trained and in swim diapers”).
The new televisions, meanwhile, will be mounted on swivel arms so they can be watched from different spots in a stateroom.
Other upgrades to the 2,700-passenger Magic, according to a release Disney issued earlier this week, will include new waterfalls from a pair of hot tubs in the pool at the adult-oriented “Quiet Cove;” plush new chairs at the nearby “Cove Cafe;” and new registration areas to allow “radio frequency identification” at the kid-focused “Oceaneer Club” and “Oceaneer Lab” that will ultimately allow children to check in and out by tapping a sensor with with tag-embedded wristbands.
Disney also plans to apply a new hull coating during the dry dock in Norfolk, Va., that is designed to reduce surface resistance in the water and improve fuel efficiency.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on September 8, 2008 at 9:03 am · Permalink
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