"Seen any good movies lately?" As a matter of fact...I recently went to a screening of the latest Disney film, 'The Finest Hours' which chronicles the true story of the most courageous small boat rescue in Coast Guard history. In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the ...
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My Visit to Zootopia
I love a good 'making of' story. (This post may or may not be one of those, but that's not important right now.) And when it involves the Disney studios, I always begin by wondering, "would this production make Walt Disney himself proud?" This post attempts to answer that question.A few months ago, as I wrote about here, I had the privilege of ...
A Peek Into the World of Zootopia
Last month I had the opportunity to visit the Walt Disney Animation Studios in their temporary home on the Tujunga Campus in Burbank. (I know. Shut up.) A group of us bloggers were treated to an entire day of being completely immersed in the creation of the upcoming Disney Animated feature film, 'Zootopia.' The booming metropolis of Zootopia ...
What’s Important Right Now – October
I often get distracted as I'm in the middle of telling a story and my go to disclaimer is, "but that's not important right now." But my life is in session and there are lots of things that are important. So I keep a list of 'present participles' or Things That Are Important Right Now. Loving my new website. Lucy has done an amazing job of ...
‘Inside Out’ Review: Pixar Touches All the Emotions
I didn't know how they were going to pull it off. I'm talking about Disney•Pixar here.I had seen the cute trailers and even watched the first 20 minutes of the new Disney•Pixar film, 'Inside Out,' and I was still unconvinced that they could pull off what they were attempting. In this brilliant animated feature, Pixar ...
The Surprising Pixar Press Event for Inside Out
Back in January when I had the sweet opportunity to visit Pixar and Skywalker Ranch (I will drop this into any conversation when given the chance, but that's not important right now), I had the good fortune to preview about 20 minutes of the new Disney/Pixar film, Inside Out. Read all about that here.This preview whetted my ...
Hello, Summer Garden! – A Giveaway
California is fickle. It can be 100 degrees one day and back down to 65 the next. It's been a relatively mild Spring and we are now barreling towards summer and that means Outdoor Entertaining Season. Can I get an "Amen?"Eric and I have been planning a Big Birthday Bash. It should have taken place this weekend. However, ...
There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Humor me for a few minutes as I time travel a bit. I'm old enough now to remember the days when Walt Disney was the visionary of our time. I remember the days when the Tomorrowland located in Disneyland Park really conceived a distant world of the future. Back then, the iconic Carousel of Progress was really a vision into a future that ...
George Clooney – Boy Genius. Talking about Tomorrowland
"Imagine a place where nothing is impossible." Of all the things that I thought that I might be writing about, never did I ever imagine that "interviewing George Clooney" would be one of those topics. But that happened and here we are. The context is that Disney Pictures has made a wonderful, oh-so-Disneyesque ...
Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron – Press Day
I should probably start with a disclaimer about how this post is going to have lots of photos (you can thank me later) and be really long and fangirly (<--is that a word?) and I'm probably most definitely going to be gushing. (Oh, no! There's going to be gushing?) I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Marvel's ...