Article: Disney's merry marketeers are making me goofy.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: Peter Chianca

Well, it's about time somebody said it. Those people at Disney are a bunch of sons of &%$#@s.

Oh sure, they seem harmless on the surface. They're the nice people who make movies about doggies and kitties and lions, but not fierce lions - happy lions, who sing.

Of course, that's exactly what they want you to think.

I realized otherwise last week, when I was tripping over all the other brainwashed parents to get a copy of "Monsters, Inc." before it sells out or gets put into the Disney "vault." The vault is where Disney puts movies to punish parents who don't snap them up fast enough - picture a big, mouse-shaped ...

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