Disney Wonders if a Mermaid Can Follow a Trail Blazed by a Lion
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While âThe Lion Kingâ on Broadway took everyone by surprise, âThe Little Mermaidâ comes with one question: Can Disney ever do that again?
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By Jane Roberts robertsj@commercialappealcom  Northwest Airlines is beefing up service from Memphis to Orlando, Las Vegas, Seattle and Denver, doubling frequent flier miles and reducing fares enough and that someone might want to alert Disney.
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HONG KONG -- While  Western pirates are a familiar feature of Hollywood movies, Disney is introducing a Chinese sea bandit in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End."
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The Walt Disney Co. is hoping a fractured fairy tale that swaps Manhattan for a magic kingdom, a divorce lawyer for a prince, and roaches and pigeons for wholesome forest creatures will turn into its newest film franchise.
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A forest of golden lions line the red carpet leading to the Cinema Palace at the Venice Film Festival. Picture:Reuters. The Venice Film Festival amps up the star power, reports Stephanie Bunbury.
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Sporting a trunk-like nose and a jet-black rump, a new species of a bizarre furry mammal was caught on film as it scuttled along a forest floor in Tanzania.
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The loudest roar of the  evening didn't come from any of the lions onstage at the  Pantages on opening night, it came from an audience grateful to  have "The Lion King" back in town. Six years after Julie  Taymor's brainchild debuted in Los Angeles and nine years after  it lit up Broadway, the show still works a special kind of  magic unlike any other.
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At Lake Eola park, there is much beauty to behold: robust palms, beds of cheery begonias, a cascading lake fountain, clusters of friendly egrets and swans, an amphitheater named in honor of Walt Disney.
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A fossil found in Wyoming resolves a puzzle over when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food.
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The animated sea animals of DreamWorks&#39; latest project have been out for blood since they first dove into the box-office waters, and they still haven&#39;t had their fill.
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Tourists flock to Fisherman's Wharf for the seafood and the stunning views of San Francisco Bay, but for many visitors, the real stars are the dozens of playful, whiskered sea lions that lounge by the water's edge, gulping down fish.
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For campers at Isle Royale National Park, sighting a gray wolf is a rare and thrilling experience. At least, it has been. But some wolves have gotten a bit too familiar this summer, wandering into camping areas and showing little of their customary fear of people.
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WASHINGTON -- The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics...
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Researchers will visit the Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the legendary creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch."
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The Darjeeling Limited star is still to get a lead but she is certainly going places, having been cast in plays by Royal Shakespeare Company. She is in The Taming of the Shrew as well as The Merchant Of Venice.
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Disney Enterprises may have to sell its trademarks in South Africa to pay for damages if a poor family wins a lawsuit claiming it lost millions in royalties from the hit song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
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Water striders do what few other animals can: They walk on water. How the freshwater insects pull it off has baffled scientists&#151;until now.