Disneyland officials released details on Wednesday about a mini opening of the theme park in Anaheim next month. The limited-capacity ticketed event will be called “A Touch of Disney.” The theme park, which has been shut down for a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will reopen partially on March 18 through April 5 for the event , which will offer a chance for Disney fans to shop at stores and enjoy eateries around Disneyland, including the California Adventure Park. Much of the food will be “bite-sized” versions of fan favorites from throughout the park. The theme park’s Disney characters will also be featured in the event. A new soundtrack of “re-imagined” Disney songs will also be part of the experience as they’re played in the park, officials said. Related Story LA County Supervisors Call For Earlier Reopening Of Disneyland, Other Large Theme Parks Buena Vista Street will be closed to customers on March 15 before it becomes part of Touch of Disney … [Read more...] about Disneyland Officials Release Details About Mini Reopening In March Called A Touch Of Disney
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‘Kid 90’ Tells Story of Nineties Child Stars Through Soleil Moon Frye’s Home Movies
Punky Brewster star Soleil Moon Frye’s home videos from the Nineties are the focus of Kid 90 , a Hulu documentary about the actress’ experiences as a teenaged star — and that of other child actors — during that decade. “As a teenager in the Nineties, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She documented hundreds of hours of footage and then locked it away for over 20 years,” the film’s synopsis states. “After all this time, Kid 90 unlocks the vault and presents a true time capsule of a group of friends growing up in Hollywood and New York City.” Among the fellow child actors in Frye’s circle were Saved by the Bell ’s Mark-Paul Gosselaar, David Arquette, Stephen Dorff, Balthazar Getty, Beverly Hills 90210 ’s Brian Austin Green, and more. “The most awkward period of your life… that’s when we were in front of the cameras,” Gosselaar says in the trailer. The preview also hints at the impact being a child star has on a teenager later in life, as one … [Read more...] about ‘Kid 90’ Tells Story of Nineties Child Stars Through Soleil Moon Frye’s Home Movies
Comedy Central Picks Up ‘Daria’ Spinoff Series ‘Jodie’ As Part Of Push In Adult Animation
Comedy Central has nabbed animated series Jodie , a spinoff of MTV’s iconic Daria , with Tracee Ellis Ross voicing the main character and executive producing. The series, from creator and head writer Grace Edwards and MTV Studios, will be paired with Comedy Central’s flagship series, South Park. This is the first major move in a programming shift at Comedy Central focused on ramping up adult animated content and building an original animated slate around South Park . The major programming pivot already was in the planning stages when Comedy Central in late April laid off the majority of its senior programming team. Jodie also marks the first MTV Studios series for Comedy Central as the brads are forging closer ties now that they are part of the same ViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Group overseen by Chris McCarthy. It was one of the projects on the inaugural slate of MTV Studios when it launched in 2018 has been envisioned as one of several Daria spinoffs. … [Read more...] about Comedy Central Picks Up ‘Daria’ Spinoff Series ‘Jodie’ As Part Of Push In Adult Animation
Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Iran’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Sun Children’
Majid Majidi has been making sensitive and trenchant films about kids in Iran for three decades and he’s still doing it in Sun Children ( Khorshid ), a shrewdly observed humanistic drama about some young teens scrambling to make their way in a difficult world. Winner of the Best Picture prize at last year’s Fajr Film Festival and an official Venice Festival entry, this brisk drama focuses sympathetically on several marginalized but striving kids whose every waking moments are devoted to survival strategies. The International Feature Oscar-shortlisted title from Iran is being distributed by Strand Releasing in the U.S. Related Story Int'l Critics Line: Anna Smith On Ivory Coast's Oscar-Shortlisted 'Night Of The Kings' Freckle-faced Ali (Rouhollah Zamani, winner of Venice’s Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor) works in an automobile garage and in the opening scene leads his three good buddies in a botched attempt to steal tires off fancy … [Read more...] about Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Iran’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Sun Children’
How the Media Failed Britney Spears and Dylan Farrow
Within the last three weeks, TV’s documentary explosion has given us two damning close-ups on decades-old celebrity scandals. In one, an insatiable media-industrial complex takes a vulnerable young woman into its maw, judging her sexuality and questioning, then actively undermining, her sanity. In the other, it happens again. The main difference between them lies in who the celebrity is at the center of each public maelstrom — and how that simple fact determines who survives in its wake. Framing Britney Spears , a New York Times -produced documentary that premiered February 5th and is now streaming on Hulu , forces us to look anew at Spears’ shot-out-of-a-cannon rise as a teenager and public implosion several years later, both a function of relentless media attention. Some of that attention was courted, sure, as it would be by any young pop star, male or female. But the tenor of the media fervor, the implicit slack-jawed drooling and pawing, the pure … [Read more...] about How the Media Failed Britney Spears and Dylan Farrow