How The Heck Did They Get That Hat On Dopey?

[fj]

"How The Heck Did They Get That Hat On Dopey?", Nokia N73, Los Angeles County, 2006

I had to be on the lot today to get a security sticker for 2007. I do not remember having been there since my indcution day, as DM is in another building, some miles away in North Hollywood.

I spent last night listening to the evils of the Disney theme park experience as detailed by some smart modern people. I am glad I went to the lot today, and spent some time in the square of Disney legends, looking at the plaques and statues; sometimes I like to reconnect to the love and creativity and the massive amounts of childhood memories that lie at the basis of this company, below all the merchandising and market opportunities and cynical people deriding it.

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[fj.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't read it.

You know what, walking around the plaza I came across the plaques for Ashman & Menken. We can be as derisive as we want about facts like that the park character costumes come with their own underwear, but at the basis of the chick wearing a yellow parody of a ballgown and responding to the name Belle while she walks in the park is a piece of heartbreaking craftsmanship, and that castmember is making the children in that park happy when they get to walk up to her.

Incidentally, who knew Ashman wrote the Simpson parody of his own song?

[fj.livejournal.com]

Then again, considering he was already dead in 95, maybe he got the credit because he wrote the original music.