When we walked around the new Times Square Disney Store, which opens today, we were taken by an overwhelming feeling of "meh." Perhaps our expectations were just too high, but when the Disney Store finally arrives to place the pink polyethylene crown atop already Disneyfied Times Square, one at least expects something a little epic, or at least a state of the art soul-crushing monument to crass commercialism. Reverend Billy, this place isn't worth the effort. It's just a big store.
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Times Square Disney Store Wants to Slip You a Mickey
Disney Store Finally Coming to Disneyfied Times Square
After closing a Disney store on Fifth Avenue last year, Mickey Mouse is marching back to Times Square to occupy the space vacated by Virgin Records last April. But forget everything you've ever wanted to forget about Disney stores—since taking back control of its retail operation from Children's Place, whose subsidiary had run the chain, Disney has planned a major revamp. The company is promising a grand, interactive store with theme park attractions and children's exhibits, with a design emulating the Apple stores. (Apple CEO Steve Jobs has a hand in this because he sits on Disney's board.) The magic starts this fall, giving Reverend Billy plenty of time to prepare his counterattack.
Writers Guild Strike Heads into Second Week
Members of the Writers Guild of America have been striking in Los Angeles and New York this past week over details of a basic contract between writers and producers - one of the biggest sticking points is the amount of residuals writers get from DVD and new media distribution. The NY Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd asked Seth Meyers (who we spoke to on Tuesday) to give her a weekend update about the strike:...
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