Studio hit creative apex in `Mermaid' BEAUTIFUL ... OR BEASTLY? Studio hit creative apex in `Mermaid'.(Arts)(Movies)

From: The Washington Times | Date: November 23, 1997| Author: Arnold, Gary | Copyright information

The continuing appeal and influence of Walt Disney animation would have been difficult to ignore in New York City last weekend. Along with the opening of "The Lion King" at the renovated New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street, numerous area movie theaters - not to mention a couple of thousand others around the country - were participating in the first revival of "The Little Mermaid."

That instant classic of 1989 confirmed a rejuvenated sense of creative promise and confi...

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