Transcript: Satire: Mickey Mouse's 75th birthday extreme makeover

MICHELE NORRIS
All Things Considered (NPR)
12-03-2003
Satire: Mickey Mouse's 75th birthday extreme makeover

Host: MICHELE NORRIS
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM

MICHELE NORRIS, host:

This week the resignation of Roy Disney rocked the board of the Walt Disney Company. Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin think the best way to boost morale is by giving the company's best-known symbol an extreme makeover.

"Unidentified Announcer": Three-quarters of a century later, and he's still going strong. That's right. It's Mickey Mouse's 75th birthday.

(Soundbite of Mickey Mouse Club theme music)

"Unidentified Announcer": But this isn't your father's Mickey, Disney fans. There's a new mouse in the house. ...

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