Guests are reportedly committing acts of vandalism on Walt Disney World property.
This is why we can’t have nice things anymore.
LW Ghost
LW Ghost is a writer, director, producer, designer, and former officer and contract negotiator within the entertainment guilds and a contributor on many of the shows you recall with vivid detail. Mr. Ghost now enjoys retirement and writes, when so inclined, about all things modern and past Hollywood on back, front, and even sidelots he once roamed. Having grown up literally with Disneyland, he has now decamped the SoCal madness and resides in the not-quite-so-mysterious Southeast. He shares the philosophy about attention and fame of his namesake seen in the photo who famously advised "Stay out of the spotlight--it'll fade your suit."
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Bob Iger Oscar Campaign Backfires as Academy Snubs Disney Boss After Kennedy Push
Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy was reportedly lobbying for an honorary Oscar for Bob Iger, but The Academy had other plans. LW Ghost breaks down the who, what, and why of these special Academy Awards.
What’s In A Word? Too Often Online A Whole Lotta Malarkey — An Editorial By LW Ghost
I dunno about you folks, but I’m into language, words, and meaning. And THAT means that I get constantly po’d about how words are either abused or over-used or just plain stupidly employed online, in particular in YouTube videos.
Unions, Guilds, Contracts, AI, And Things That Go SAG/AFTRA In The Night, By LW Ghost
We’ve seen a lot of talk about AI and the effect it will have on entertainment in general and actors in particular. We hear about, for just one of many examples, James Earl Jones and his family making the deal to AI his voice resulting in some more-than-interesting stuff going on in Fortnite if you ask the right (or is it wrong?) questions. And we’ve seen the SAG/AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Actors as they once were and merged) efforts to enforce their contracts get represented as affecting those bigshot players and their deals.
Shark Jumping Media Execs: How To Know When It’s YOUR Time To Go — An Editorial By LW Ghost
Once upon a time, a long-running and highly successful TV sitcom featured one of its popular leather-jacketed characters quite literally jumping over a shark at sea and a new expression was born in medialand. “Jumping The Shark” meant taking a process/idea/concept/plot/series one step beyond the most strained artistic rationality and was symbolic of the end of any further worthwhile creative endeavor and a signal that it was time to do something else.
Blood and Turnips: The Essential Equation Josh D’Amaro Pretends Not To Know — An Editorial by LW Ghost
Disney CEO-Of-The-Near-Future Josh D’Amaro, currently in charge of the company’s only money-making division (albeit less and less of it all the time) involved with “Experiences” is an experienced man, business man, and manager. So he’s got to know an age-old adage we’ve all heard since childhood: “You can’t get blood out of a turnip.”
OPINION: Let’s Go Out To The Movies!!!! (Or Maybe NOT!)—Confused Movie Theaters Just Got More Confused
Believe it or not, in their misguided quest to find new ways to entice customers back into movie houses the exhibitors are getting more and more crazed and deluded.
I mentioned in my previous piece how it wasn’t the “aeroplanes” of screen size, sound, or “exclusive windows” before they go online or other enhancements that killed the movie biz but the lack of “beauty” in the crummy movies themselves.
But now, it seems, something new has been added to the mix of mayhem: MINECRAFT is spurring a whole new round of in-theater antics thanks to that dubious ChiCom gift to the world called TikTok.
Opinion: Tariffs, Toys, And Retail Joys: A Cold, Hard Look At The Reality Of Today’s “Chynah Syndrome”
So yeah, we’re raising massive tariff’s on Chinese manufactured goods, and yeah, a lot of them have to do with toys and park merch (and popcorn buckets) and it means such things will cost more to get to these shores. But DOES that obligate a huge price rise where your...
Disney Ends Lease On The Historic Fox Studios in West L.A. Where Hollywood Classics Were Made — A Reflection by LW Ghost
The Walt Disney Company bought “Fox” in the now-considered-infamously-expensive deal that brought them a lot of IP, both used and ignored, but did NOT buy their real estate—the huge studio located just west of Beverly Hills that had been home to 20th Century Fox for decades. Now, with the lease they took on that lot expiring, Disney has announce no plan to renew the deal, which was costing them an estimated $50 million a year.
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes: A “What If?” Ponder About Snow White’s Massive Fail by LW Ghost
When Pro contacted me about being on The Pro Show this week (which as you read this you know I happily agreed to do), I innocently asked him “So what’s up?” and what I meant by that was “Hey, we KNOW the stockholder call was garbage, we KNOW Snow White is a goner, so is there any NEW outrageous dumbness from the Mouse coming up?”
But before we move on from here, I thought maybe, just maybe, you’d not be utterly surfeited (is that a word?) with the no-business-like-Snow-business story to join me on a little journey into the “What if?” universe and consider what could have been (and this is NOT yet another review of the awful film because I famously HATE reviews that tell you what the reviewer WOULD have made instead of dealing with what is there on the screen).
First, Do No Harm—The Bare Minimum Oath All Disney Imagineers SHOULD Take But No Longer Do, An Editorial by LW Ghost
I’ve spent the last hour or so listening to some wonderful music from the past—not the Mozart kind of past, but the EPCOT past, and it made me think more than just warm, nostalgic, and happy thoughts of good times back in those yester-decades called the 1980’s which, I know, many of you were not blessed to be around in.
The Urge To Surge: Pricing Strategies Old, New, and Constant, What the Disney Surge Pricing Strategy Really Means – An Editorial By LW Ghost
There’s a great hullaballoo going on about the Disney news that park admission prices may implement a “new” “Surge Pricing” formula designed to follow crowd patterns, making the cost of tickets go UP when demand is high (and, the implication—ONLY an implication with ZERO actual statement of this) and, go DOWN when demand is slack.