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It's Monday! If You Want the Box Office Figures, Try Yahoo

Monday, December 22nd, 1997

Next studio on our Hot Button Web tour is Disney. Ah, Disney! The sweet siren of kids entertainment. If you click here, you’ll find the whole parade of Disney kids stuff. But oddly enough, Eisner & Co. have ripped the adult movies off the site. And I don’t mean porno. I mean anything for anyone over 12. To find Disney’s other product, you have to go to movies.com, which would appear to be a site dedicated to Disney only, but with no name attached. The conspiracy continues! If you want to go international, sneak over to Disney’s international site where they are running a Starship Troopers contest right now. (Yes, it was a Sony movie in the U.S.)
Despite themselves, Disney has made one of the smartest investments in art films possible by buying Miramax. Great studio and great marketing. You’ll find the hits and Oscar contenders to be Jackie Brown and Good Will Hunting.
The freaky site of the day should tweak the nose of Disney even more than Mouse Hunt did last weekend. The Natalie Portman Countdown To Legality counts the moments — down to the second — to moment when Hollywood’s sexualization of a teen turns men from pedaphiliacs to stalkers.
E-mail works though the holidays. Try it. You’ll like it. The Whole Picture is all new for the holidays. But if you’re good boys and girls, you will unwrap each section as the appropriate holiday comes around. Too much Whole Picture at one sitting will rot your teeth.