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Ashley Tisdale In Santa Monica

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High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale walks around in Santa Monica.

Philip Glass Doing Opera Based On Walt Disney’s Life

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“Famed composer Philip Glass has been comissioned to compose an Opera based on novel ‘The Perfect American’. That novel by Peter Stephan Jungk examines the last few months of Walt Disney’s life as seen through the eyes of a fictional animator who worked for him.” [Link]

Miley Cyrus Makes Disneyland Shut Down During ‘Gay Days’

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“Disney is throwing Miley Cyrus a huge 16th birthday bash at Disneyland during the same weekend as the traditional Gay Days, which brings tens of thousands of gays and lesbians to the amusement citadel. Despite the fact that Miley’s actual birthday isn’t until November, the park will be shutting down early” [Link]

“The Rock” Dwayne Johnson To Star In Disney Tomorrowland Movie

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“Disney is circling an entire segment of its theme park — Tomorrowland — as inspiration for a space movie that will star Dwayne Johnson. The studio has set scribes Jon Lucas and Scott Moore to draft an epic-sized action adventure set in space. The film is being designed as a vehicle for Johnson, who starred for the studio in family hit ‘The Game Plan’ and most recently completed ‘Race to Witch Mountain.’ ” [Link]

Walter Marino Used Buzz Lightyear Catchphrase With Son During Sea Ordeal

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“Lost at sea with nothing to hold onto amid a dreadful darkness, Florida resident Walter Marino continually called out some of the few words his 12-year-old autistic son Christopher responds to. The pair, swept out in a late-afternoon current near Daytona Beach, had been treading water in shark- and jellyfish-infested waters throughout the night, slowly floating apart. ‘I’d be screaming, ‘To infinity … and beyond!’ ’ Marino said, referring to the Disney character Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase in ‘Toy Story,’ one of Christopher’s favorite movies. ‘Then I would hear him and it would be more and more and more distant, until finally I couldn’t hear anything.’” [Link]