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The Buffalo NewsSunday June 25 1995 Page 5 An idealized natural beauty BE fl PART MOVIE HISTORY! Continued from Page Gl WI IMS! Tlie best bi i Bihus inuiim III Glen Keane was responsible for the design of fci'i OR STORE NEAR YOU CALL 1 8OO 4 WARNER any definition a sweet deal Junket: By tncludtno BEST MUSICAL! Continued from Page Gl CLINT EASTWOOD MERYL STREEP 1 WYRKpresenfc BRUCE HANGEN NOW SHOWING i YESTERDAY 5 THE LETTERMEN CQZE33 PRODUCED BY ICONCERTS Ts UM BURKIN BATMAN MOVIE POSTER 51 WITH MINIMUM PURCHASE AT WARNER BROS STUDIO STORES TBfWAUVWMLCOMPAIirS Mltllll mm Alt THE UVENT LINE THE COMl tfonter BRAVEHEART Visit the BRAVBMEAT WiarLt jt MtpiwwWparatviount met Mel NOW SHOWING NOW SHOWING A AMC HOLIDAYS sounded so beautiful in you sing to your husband? I bet it would be so wonderful to have someone with your voice around the St Paul asked one of the direc tors if the scene of Pocahontas running past a fence is inspired from a scene in and the director said) During a brief break Arkansas asked me if I was attending the Central Park screening I After all it was two days away with Disney scheduling nothing in the interim it seemed foolish to keep me in town on my bill to watch a movie I had already seen But Arkansas was going paid for my she said nonchalantly editor have a problem with it And not like going to af fect my Then 1 noticed the watch on her wrist got it on the jun she explained went bowling with Disney executives This is what the winning team ford Centre City ol No0 Vf MAPLE gVD MAU GENERAL CINEMA UNIVERSITY 8 MAPLE ML LOP BLVD MAU GENERAL CINEMA mckinley 6 McKinley a mile strip ri 824 3479 7 GENERAL CINEMA WALDEN GALLERIA4OEXfT52 Ml 4550 GENERAL CINEMA MARKET ARCADE DOWNTOWN THEATRE DISTRICT 855 3022 my limited edition chocolate bar while sitting at the screening later that evening a woman behind me shouted across the theater a few minutes before showtime the story on know I heard there was Jim replied Soon the theater was buzzing about upcoming non ani mated film Dumbo Apparently the junket date had been moved and all the seasoned junketeers wanted to know if the flick was in trouble and whether the new date would interfere with any of their other trips That night after the film I wondered how many fellow press members actually had let Disney foot their bills Before embarking on this odyssey I have thought that many It take a journalism ethics class to teach you that putting a $200 a night room on your Visa might be considered a touch squishy Leafing through my press pack et I came across a form from Buena Vista marketing department order to insure mkiec egg his window's Disney gives you the red carpet treatment dinner in Central Park transportation to and from events limited edition milk chocolate bars so you' egg its movie If you look up the noun the dictionary provides the expected definitions: festive so cial and trip or tour es pecially one taken at public ex pense or by a person who is the guest of a business or an agen cy seeking favor or Then the lesser known first definition: dessert of sweetened fla vored milk set with Rennet used to curdle the con coction is the mucous membrane of a calfs stomach I know if the first defini tion inspired the second or third But this primary ingredi ents a sweet animated film that is trademark and a com nauseating (and surely suc cessful) drive to sell it tasted like junket to me In an attempt to purge the taste from my palate I devoured joined them was important that she look like someone who was beautiful but know he says of first character based on a real person be truly beautiful you be something just on the outside As soon as someone knows beautiful and acts like it they're no longer Because Keane has broached the topic of looks a reporter help but ask: Why is his creation so well so stacked? Keane grins He knew Pocahon cup size would come up soon er or later said to create the finest creature the human race has to offer So why not create an ide alized form? She should be an ideal and a different era may have a different ideal But since that was my job what I In her first job as an animated character Bedard faced acting challenges she had never before encountered Because she said her lines alone in a sound booth she had to imagine the setting and characters Because she never the voice behind Smith Gibson she had to inspire her self with statuettes and sketches When Bedard finally saw Poca hontas on screen she was struck by how much they looked alike: the raven hair the chiseled cheek bones the almond shaped eyes Pocahontas even had her ears (Pocahontas acquired her perfect pitch however from Tony nomi nated actress Judy Kuhn the char singing voice) was Bedard says shaking her head and stirring her coffee I saw the expres sions on her face I thought: is really scary so But the magic of to a 17th century portrait of Poca hontas which looked to him as if the painter was to make her He wandered the Vir ginia forests imagining the spot the Native American girl and the Englishman first crossed paths While strolling through the woods he met two of descen dants know how to speak to he recalls know if I should say or Then I realized maybe this is how John Smith The women became his muses He kept their picture near his work table Snaps of Christy Tur lington and other supermodels THE LETTERMEN July 29 8:00 pm After 20 million records and 7500 sold out shows as popular as ever hear such favorites as Your Head On My Shoulder and I all in Love i fl II Za mt that you are properly reimbursed for any incidental expenses you might incur on the 1995 NEW YORK JUNE ILM PRESS JUN it began ask that you itemize those expenses and submit this form by June 23 In the corner of the letter Mickey Mouse grinned I could al most hear the castrato pitch in his rodent voice: ahead: Put the $1250 room service turkey burger on The next day as I was en route to interviews at the Stanhope Ho tel an elderly woman leaned over my seat on the press bus and in spected my neckline you get a she asked Before I had a chance to realize she was referring to the plastic press ID necklaces she grumbled: the deal? I only go on these things if I get a At the Stanhope interviewees spent 15 minutes at each of a dozen or so round tables occupied by the press I sat with reporters from Georgia Arkansas St Paul and I think England Georgia gushed over everyone particularly Judy Kuhn Pocahon singing voice WARNfR GINT EASWOOD MfM S'EEP 'Inf BADGES Of MADISON COUNTY" lENNIE N'AUS AVE Nt SE JAW WAUt Uirei twnwunwran fl cartoonist Bil Keane will draw himself off the 1 page spending a sabbatical in Paris studying sculpture art and the fine art of relaxing At 27 Bedard has no desire to slow her pace A Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Mary Crow Dog in last TNT production of Woman: Siege at Wounded upgraded her sta tus from struggling actress to hot property With a cast of virtually all Na live Americans and the highest proportion of American Indian crew members to work on a speaks to new found need to re pent of its good cowboy bad Indian history and points to more choice opportunities for Bedard than earlier generations of Native American actors ever had the past) been veiy much portrayed as savages bad guys ugly Bedard says were being portrayed by Italian guys in wigs who had no idea about our The actress recalls crossing paths with a few Native American role models on the small and large screens while growing up in An chorage There was Sheldon Wolf child on She cheered on Will Sampson in lew Over the When children in the audience 'do the same for it be the first time Bedard is linked to Chief daugh ter a child) I was called Poca hontas as a derogatory thing You know: out of here Pocahon Keane first connected with Po cahontas four years ago when for mer Disney honcho Jeffrey Katz enberg handed him his toughest RM IHE MOST SPECTACULAR ENTERTAINMENTS IN YEARS!" 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SUUfwIW ALBUV AWJtC ih AND (ASSETIfS assignment yet: Reanimate a legend early drawings were of Pocahontas at 14 a couple of years after she actually met John Smith But as writing team began crafting a star crossed cross cultural romance a scenar io many historians dismiss he aged her from girl to young wom an just play right to have a 14 year old girl in a romance with a 30 ycar old man We had the choice of being historically ac curate or socially responsible so we chose the socially responsible or inspiration Keane turned ICail 1 800 663 7229 and asii tot the special i hen in Toronto stay at the Boulevanl" room and ticket padiages I VIENNESE NIGHT 3 July 7 8:00 pm Bruce Hangen conductor Katherine Terrell soprano Robert Tate tenor An evening of beautiful waltzes marches and operettas including the "Blue Danube Waltz" and selections from "Merry Widow highlighted by the vocal radiance of Katherine Terrell and Robert Tate ML JL IMh I 'A tjv 4 a 1 IP' 5 11? 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