Walt Disney World has an official policy that prohibits guests from dressing up in adult costumes "that can be viewed as representative of an actual Disney character" so as to not confuse children looking for "the real deal."
This week, The New York Times Style section discovers yappy dogs. "There's a bull market in bad dogs right now," reports Bob Morris, who goes on to compile a compendium of terrible stories about rich people's obnoxious dogs. A sample:
This is something you don't see every day. Or ever, really. A rat, named Tinkerbell, shampooing herself in her owner's sink and—someway, somehow—actually looking cute while doing so. Rats being cute? Buh? The surprisingly adorable video is inside.
Forlorn that her state is overrun with abandoned chihuahuas, Katharine Heigl is contributing to a mass export of the trembling, bug-eyed creatures from California animal shelters to Middle America on airplanes.
[United Nations Under-Secretary-General Kiyo Akasaka was tripping balls yesterday when he named Tinkerbell an Honorary Ambassador of Green at the U.N. Image via Getty]
Because not quite enough of your childhood dreams have been throttled and trampled by culture's unending descent into l'inferno, Paris Hilton would like to be Tinkerbell in a new movie. Yes! She's heavily lobbying for the lead in a Disney project about what would happen if the Peter Pan fairy's life got flipped turned…
The Village Voice has gotten a good look at Disney's new straight-to-DVD Tinker Bell (now in 3-D with speaking capabilities!), and declares the 2008 version of the spritely heroine—the original of whom is wrongly rumored to be modeled on Marilyn Monroe—to be a platitudinous pixie snore. They also find her extremely…
Two years after Disney executives nudged Brittany Murphy before a roomful of gathered press, then detonated a confetti-filled landmine which left one Reuters photographer legless from the knees down, comes news that the once white-hot Hollywood Was-Girl has been replaced by order of Disney animation head John…
