American - Critic | December 18, 1950 -
Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.
Leonard Maltin
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Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
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The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
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Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.
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Quality survives.
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While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
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Timing in life is everything.
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Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
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NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
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I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
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