When most people hear the word Disney they think of singing mermaids and talking mice- all the cute, G-rated fun from our childhood. These only cover a small portion of Disney's vast empire. Aside from those full-length, musical cartoons that came out every year, Disney produces many more "real" movies than it does cartoons. Oh sure, some of them are produced under different names, but they're Disney's all right, as in the movie Kids. It's an X-rated movie about a full day in a bad boy's life. Did you know Disney owns more than 40 TV and radio stations, including ABC (one of the six major networks) or that Disney Magazine is a very popular, national, children's subscription which comes out monthly. How many languages will The Lion King be translated into, anyway? Have you heard Disney's buying 42nd Street in the City? Beauty and the Beast is already playing in the Palace and The Lion King just opened. They made a musical version of King David, at Radio City. Everyone's been to the Disney store in the mall carrying a fraction of the millions of Disney merchandise available today. Then the four giant theme parks they have are certainly the pinnacle of their immense holdings- Disney World, Disneyland, Euro-Disney, and Tokyo Disney. That's not even all of Disney's huge holdings. Why does Disney owns so much? May there be some sort of conspiracy for Disney to take over the world? You may say, "That's ludicrous! Disney stands for all that is good and decent in this world!" Oh really? So what's the deal with the X-rated movie? Ever since Walt died, Disney's gone totally commercial. Recently, they've stopped using fairy tales for the full length cartoons and are now using other sources.

Pocahontas is the greatly embellished story of an Indian princess who saved Captain John Smith from death. First of all, she was twelve at the time Secondly, she wasn't in love with him, but did marry another Englishman later in life. I seriously doubt that her only friends were a raccoon and a sparrow, and no Indian would honestly wear that outfit- clothes were made for comfort and practicality, not for style or to made the wearer look more attractive. If they were going to use that story they should have been more true to life. They've Disney-ified it.

Making Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame a children's cartoon was one of the stupidest things Disney has ever done. The novel was written to show the horrid treatment of the deformed and ugly and to show medieval Christianity in its glory. Instead, in the Disney version, Quasimodo was created into a cute and huggable bell ringer who happened to have a great tenor voice. In the novel, Esmerelda was hanged at the end, but in the movie she marries Phoebus and they live happily ever after. Victor Hugo wouldn't appreciate having three singing and dancing gargoyles (one with the voice of comic Jason Alexander) named after him and helping Quasimodo in his quest. I won't see it unless someone pays me enough money to suffer through two hours of Disney's distorted version.

I think by now most people have heard of the "Disney sex scandals" or the little provocative episodes hidden in The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Lion King. In The Little Mermaid, while Eric and Ursula the Sea Witch (disguised as Vanessa, a beautiful maiden) are about to be married, the priest says, "Dearly beloved" and has an erection. In Aladdin, while he's on the balcony trying to convince Jasmine to take a magic carpet ride with him, Raja her pet tiger comes out and he says, "Good kitty, good kitty...take off your clothes." The second part is quieter than the 'real script' but if you turn up the volume on your tv you can hear it loud and clear. In The Lion King, Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa are talking about what they think clouds are. Simba plops down on some dead leaves, which then float into the sky, and stay there for five seconds and spell something, and float off. It you look at it in slow motion you can see the word 'sex' written clearly. So maybe the Motion Picture Association should revoke the "G" rating for these movies; these were not meant for children's eyes. Obviously, some depraved cartoonist (probably a male) decided to sneak these in for his amusement, knowing millions of children throughout the world see these movies.

Disney isn't a pale shade to what it used to be. Values are forgotten and making money (not the children) are Michael Eisner's god. As the CEO of Disney you'd think Eisner would care about following in Walt's footsteps to help make the world better for children, not spend all his time figuring out how to enlarge his already substantial paycheck. One of these days Disney is going to try to infiltrate the government and why not? They can lie with the best of them and that would bring them MORE POWER! I shudder to think of what a Disney dictatorship would be like, but that should never happen. After all, it's the children who are Disney's primary customers, but none of them are old enough to vote. Most adults have had more than their share of talking mice in their lifetime.