Walt Disney's Annette and the Mystery at Moonstone Bay

Walt Disney's Annette and the Mystery at Moonstone Bay



Remember the Titans: An Original Walt Disney Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000 Film)
Denzel Washington stars as a black football coach hired over a white coach at a recently racially integrated Virginia high school in the early 1970s. Director Boaz Yakin (A Price Above Rubies, Fresh) has a baby boomer's heart in mind with a stylistic array of early 1970s sounds supported by Trevor Rabin's orchestral score (one seven-minute excerpt, "Titans Spirit," finishes things off here). Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's "Express Yourself" is, perhaps, the greatest surprise, while oddball favorites such as Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," and Eric Burdon and War's "Spill the Wine" match up with country star Buck Owens's "Act Naturally." Covers include a fiery version of Sly Stone's "I Want to Take You Higher" and Leon Russell's laid-back barrelhouse-piano take on the doomsday anthem "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." Cat Stevens's "Peace Train" rolls into the station in its original version. Creedence Clearwater Revival (who appear with "Up Around the Bend") are outswamped by the Hollies' imitation of their sound with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)." --Rob O'Connor
Customer Review: Great compilation of older classics
Even if, by some odd reason, you didn't love the movie, the soundtrack is an excellent compilation of great tunes. Not one bad song on the CD. Great CD for your car if you drive a lot. M :)
Customer Review: AWESOME MOVIE!
This movie is SO GOOD!!! It's a true story about a white coach and a black coach in 1950's America who join forces and coach a high school football team who just began integration. It is about racial equality and handles this subject in a wonderful manner. I love this movie so much, I can watch it over and over and over. It is a heartwarming movie and it really makes you think about racial issues, too, in a very good way. Also, the soundtrack is awesome!!


The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Culture and Education)
Henry Giroux shows how Disney atempts to hide befind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, while simultaneously exercising its influence as a major force on both global economics and cultural learning.
Customer Review: So poorly written that I couldn't get past chapter 2...
I have a number of advanced degrees and am generally considered to be intelligent and extremely well read. This point is relevant only in so far as the fact that I could not get past chapter 2 of this book makes me wonder just what audience this author intended the work for. I found the ideas interesting and provocative, although I think he makes some significant leaps in his conclusions regarding Disney's attack of social justice. However, I just couldn't stomach the dry, hubris filled sentences that are laced with 4 syllable words. This book reads like someone's dissertation and really, who reads though for pleasure. Disapointing!
Customer Review: A cool breeze of hot air
I bought this book at Disney World, while working at Disney World because the clutter of commercialism and profiteering that was abusing my preconceived version of Disney as innocence and imagination was truly starting to make me detest everything Disney. I bought this book to back up what I felt in my gut was becoming a serious problem with the Disney Corporation. However while I enjoyed sections of this book I found it to be mostly full of academic fluff. I expected it to be academic, and I bought it for that reason, but unlike other authors such as Neil Postman who can fill pages upon pages with words to make a point that could be made in one paragraph....Giroux cannot pull off the same feat. His points in the book are relevant and at times incredibly insightful...but everything in between is drivel. He seems to ramble on and on in between points with irrelevant examples and arguments that are never ending and repetitive. Most of the time the examples and arguments aren't nearly as insightful as the original point which kills his overall argument because he shoots his own credibility in the foot. Good social/culture books on Disney are hard to find because they're typically dipped in a bias of some sort. The one thing I can say about this book is even though I don't buy some of Giroux's face critiques of Disney....his stance as more of a social critique is more appealing than simply a Disney lover or a Disney hater (although, obviously this book leans more in the hater direction). This has been a great book as a reference because his arguments are good, but it's dreadful to read though as a whole.