On Friday night, Disney became a man. Disney Channel aired a gay character’s bar mitzvah for the first time in the network’s history. Not only did the popular kids’ program “Andi Mack” feature an hour long special dedicated to a bar mitzvah, but in addition, the character having the bar mitzvah was the same character…
Disney’s impending takeover of 20th Century Fox film studio feels like a death in the family. Why? Because I carry Wurtzel blood. Three generations of my family toiled to make Fox a Hollywood powerhouse. Just over 100 years ago, New York Jewish movie mogul William Fox dispatched my great-grandfather Sol M. Wurtzel from the Lower…
They call it The Magic Kingdom for a reason. When Robert Leibowitz, the 60-year-old single father of five who has suffered from chronic kidney problems since he was 12, became desperate for a new kidney, his teenage daughter had a bright idea. “In need of a kidney. O Positive,” Leibowitz printed on a t-shirt before…
‘Tis the season of cheery beverages, twinkly lights, and female power anthems about transcending social constructs. “Let It Go,” is the painfully catchy ballad that promoted snow-based self-acceptance when it debuted in the movie “Frozen” in 2013. Now that the temperature is dipping, “Let It Go” is once again gracing our airwaves and, perhaps, our…
[JTA] — Marty Sklar, who served 54 years as an “Imagineer” for the Walt Disney Co. and led the creative team behind the company’s theme parks, attractions and resorts, has died at age 83. The company announced his death in Los Angeles Thursday night. Sklar served as principal creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, turning…
Sarah Silverman: creator of “Jesus Is Magic”, lover of fart-jokes, author of autobiography “The Bedwetter”, and princess? The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction—even fiction made up by Disney. In the upcoming animated movie “Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck It Ralph 2”, every living woman who has voiced a Disney princess will unite for a…
Washington D.C. isn’t the only swamp that’s swamped with drama right now. After news broke last week that Disney had fired Steve Whitmire, the man who has voiced Kermit the Frog for the past 27 years, The Hollywood Reporter sat down with him for an interview and it’s quite clear that bygones are not bygones…
For those who can’t bear to wait over two years for the next “Frozen” movie, Disney has sated us with a short film featuring Olaf, the snowman played by Josh Gad in the original movie. In a short film that will air before Disney/Pixar’s “Coco” this November, Olaf will spend 21 minutes searching for the…
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