Loading ...It’s a Disney world, after all
By Nadine Kam
On “Project Runway,” what do you think? I think eight people could go home right now and we would not miss anything at all. Given the trouble they take to weed out designers, you have to wonder how so many of them got through.
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Rachel Weisz is Snow White in a photo by Annie Leibovitz.
Disney’s so pervasive. A while back I did a story on Disney wedding gowns for that fairy-tale wedding. In today’s paper is my interview with Mona May, who created the costumes for the fluffy family film “Enchanted,” that opens the day before Thanksgiving.
Now, I’m reading at Radaronline.com that Disneyland Paris has signed up Vivienne Westwood, Azzedine Alaia, and Luella Bartley, among others, to create updated dresses for the Disney princesses to celebrate the park’s 15th anniversary. Dresses will be auctioned off later this month to benefit UNICEF.
It’s so unbelievable to think how much power those fairy tales and their happy endings have shaped our world view as mostly positive-thinking Americans. At times I think those repeated happy endings do a disservice to children, setting them up for disappointment in life when they realize things happy endings are not written in the stars. Some of my friends still totally buy into the Prince Charming myth.
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The other fluffy family/girly film debuting the same day is “August Rush.” The premise is just as hokey as that of “Enchanted,” but “August Rush” is nicely told, and it doesn’t hurt that Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is perfectly good eye candy. It’s great that he can speak with his own Irish accent in the film. Thanks to the film, I have a new screen saver:
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