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Show SECTION SUNDAY. DECEMBER 9. EDITOR Elyssa Andrus 2007 eandrusheraldextra.com 344-255- - Can you spot the Disney references in 'Enchanted'? Robert W. MCCLATCHY MB r. Donny Osmond Butler NEWSPAPERS calls five If you've seen "Enchanted" you know that the new Disney movie references dozens of classic anifilms. mated and Just how many references are buried in the story became clear e when the studio issued a breakdown of all the hidden (and overt) homages to earlier m live-actio- n scene-by-scen- movies. These range from the first images of the film, when a storybook pops open (a parody of the storybook openings of "Snow White," "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty"), through individual scenes. For example, the scene in which Prince Edward (James Marsden) does battle with a bus in Times Square is packed with references: An old woman on the bus with a bag of birdseed is an homage to the bird woman and the song "Feed the Birds" in "Mary She appears later feeding the pigeons in Central Park. The bus driver's hairdo mimics the contours of a Mickey Mouse Pop-pins- ." hat. The scene plays out against billboards for the Broadway shows of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Tarzan," both of which began as Disney animated features. There's plenty more: The troll hunted by Prince Edward in the opening animated segment wears a loincloth made up of pieces of dresses worn by past animated Disney princesses: Snow White, Belle (from "Beauty and the Beast"), Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. He also wears as earrings shells worn by Ariel in "The little Mermaid." Robert's assistant Sam is named after Prince Philip's trusted steed Samson in "Sleeping Beauty" and is played by Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in "The Little Mermaid." And that's just the beginning of the madness. SNOW WHITE: A law firm's name pays homage to "Snow White's" songwriters, Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J.Smith. SLEEPING BEAUTY: The set of a "Rapunzel" performance has square trees, like those in "Sleeping Beauty." (Disney is planning an animated "Rapunzel" for 2009.) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: TV soap opera characters are named after "Beast" voices Jerry Orbach (Lumiere) and Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts). CINDERELLA: Look for a pumpkin-shape- d coach, a missing glass slipper and a clock that chimes 12. MARY POPPINS: A divorcing couple is named Banks, like the troubled parents who hire Mary d old Poppins. A man at a reception danced as a yellow-jackete- "Poppins" chimney sweep. Logan Molyneux DAILY documentary Frazier Moore THE Osmond family - Donny Osmond left and . brother Alan Osmond "It's certainly nice to be riding this wave again," he said. "But age 50 brings a whole different mentality. I don't know, take this the right way, but I really don't need to prove anything anymore, particularly not to myself." He said his 20s were horrible because he was trying to break imaway from his teeny-boppage, and he was constantly trying to transition to being a serious entertainer as an adult. But now that the transition has passed and he's comfortable with both his past and current roles, it's all gravy. in the 1970s. "Hey, look at Tony Bennett," Osmond said. "He's still going. He's 107 now, isn't he?" , The good-oldays started with Donny's first appearance on "The Andy Williams Show" in 1961. He was preceded on the show by older brothers Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay, who had made a name for themselves as a singing quartet. The boys' father, George Osmond, had taught them how to sing barbershop harmony. Donny performed with them for years before starting to perform as a solo artist in the '70s. Two of his biggest hits were "Go Away Little Girl," which topped the Billboard charts, and "Puppy Love," which rose to No. 3. He and Marie started their own variety TV program in 1976, "The Donny and Marie Show," which aired on ABC d . untU 1979. Osmond has said he would never want to relive the '80s (that transition period), but started making a comeback at the end of the decade with "Soldier of Love," a single he recorded with Peter Gabriel. He was the star of Broadway's "Joseph and the Amazing DONNY, C4 I' Ifem III ii Donny Osmond in 2002 at the "This is the Moment" album photo shoot. XOsmond 200 words or less, and submit it with your name, age, city of residence and profession. Please also include a daytime telephone number where we can reach you (this will not be published). Submit entries to: Traditions, Daily Herald, P.O. Box 717, Provo, UX 84604, or to dhnewsSheraldextra.com with subject: traditions. The dwdllrw is Dec. 14. - "It was a lot of fun," says Michelle Phillips, the sylphlike former member of the Mamas and the Papas. Even 40 years later, there is no nor does consensus on 1968 Tom Brokaw seek one in his new documentary, "1968 with Tom Brokaw." Airing tonight on the History r flashback Channel, it's a to a year so laden with events and messages "we're still working our way through it," as Brokaw summed up during a recent interview. The year began with the Tet Offensive, a major Vietcong assault against South Vietnam that shattered many Americans' faith that the war could ever be "won." The year ended, mercifully, with the Apollo 8 mission that sent three Americans orbiting around the moon and inspired a nation that badly needed it. In between ... the assassinations of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy; riots in cities and uprisings on campuses, plus the violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; a peace movement flourishing while the war claimed the lives of 16,500 U.S. military (almost twice as many as the previous year); Nixon narrowly winning the presidency, sealing a remarkable political comeback. Plus sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. "I remember thinking that I was living in so many Americas," said Brokaw, marveling that when his journalism career had brought him to Los Angeles' KNBC two years earlier, "I saw Reagan get elected (governor) on the one hand, the counterculture rising on the other hand." He also remembers how the media had trouble accepting the complexity of events as they untwo-hou- folded. family Holiday Traditions How do you celebrate the holidays? Please share your favorite Christmas tradition, whatever beloved ritual you observe each year. Write It up in ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK The year 1968: Was it groovy? A bummer? "I think 1968 was probably the worst year in this nation's history," says conservative com- mentator Pat Buchanan, a former speechwriter for Richard Nixon who coined the term "silent majority." Growing pains See i Tom Brokaw year 1968 for has-bee- reached at bbutlerkcstar.com. , y tumultuous 1 I Robert W. Butler can be . section of San Francisco, where the counterculture flowered (and where he, a neatly groomed young correspondent, is seen in archival footage reporting from the same intersection) in The History Channel's "1968 with Tom Brokaw." Haight-Ashbur- revisits the HERALD onny Osmond is not slowing down. At all. The former teen idol turns 50 today, and is trying to show that he's anything but a He just finished a European tour and has since been reporting for "Entertainment Tonight" on his sister Marie's performance on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." His latest CD, "Love Songs of the 70s," went gold in a week, and he says his phone is ringing off the hook. Maybe that's because by now, he said, he has turned from avoiding his past to using it to sustain his entertainment career. "I have embraced the fact that I did wear purple socks, I did sing 'Puppy Love,' I did do all that, and I'm cool with it," Osmond said in a November phone interview with the Daily Herald. "As a matter of fact, I just did a stint in Vegas and one of the biggest numbers in the show was 'Puppy Love.' And it's actually fun to go back and embrace it." Having been in the public eye since age 4, Osmond called his life "a wild ride, man." Showbusiness, exhe says, is about extremes treme ups and extreme downs and it's like he's never been off the roller coaster. Lately, though, he's glad to be on one of the ups. 1 decades on roller coaster offame a 'wild ride' The History Channel Tom Brokaw revisits the s When an NBC News bigwig asked Brokaw, new at the network, for his thoughts, "I said, 'California has a much broader vein of important cultural contributions to the country than it gets credit for.' And he said, 'I don't want to hear that. I love the kook-inesThat's what we want out of California.' There were these stereotypes in play." Now 67, the former NBC News anchorman covered many of the major events of that decade, while experiencing them as a member of the generation at their core: baby boomers. He stayed busy. "I've led a pretty f life. I've not taken a lot of time to be contemplative," Brokaw said. "But this was an opportunity that . s. ast-pac- See BROKAW, C2 . |