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Article: The Arts: The return of Mickey Mouse He's back after a gap of 50 years. James Langton talks to the people who have breathed new life into Disney's most famous creation
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- August 29, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright 1999 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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HOLLYWOOD rarely gives anyone a second chance. In a town where
youth is not so much a celebration as a religion, the prospects of a
septuagenarian making it back to the top are as slender as a starlet
on a rocket and egg-white omelette diet. Unless, of course, the old
timer is a rodent with saucers for ears and oversized yellow boots.
Mickey Mouse is back. Given the omnipotence of the Disney
Corporation, it might seem that he had never been away. But for
almost half a century, Mickey and his gang have been little more than
global symbols of a vast entertainment empire, while a new generation
of animated stars has seized the headlines and the profits.
Now, however, Mickey has returned, and in ...