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Meet the talent behind Disney’s Tangled

 

Alan Menken w Mandy Moore 

The highlight of my press junket to Disneyland Paris was meeting some of the talent behind Disney's new animated film Tangled. Press junkets are a whole experience in themselves; I could write an entire post about them. I was the lone blogger amongst a large group of European press, and a guy from one of the mainland nationals kept eeking in all his questions before anyone else could breathe! I did my job though and managed to get in a few parent-focused questions.

Who would you cast for The Help?

The helpukI was so excited to hear that Kathryn Stockett's The Help is being made into a film, as we speak! Apparently it is the most excitement Mississippi has seen in a long time.

Last Spring I suggested that my book club read The Help, and everyone really liked it. The group is usually split, but the general consensus was that it was a good read and it sparked a whole evening of interesting conversation (sometimes we only spend a half hour on the book and then go on to more meaty subjects such as school gossip).

The Help takes place in Mississippi in the 60's and is about the relationship between women and the almost exclusively black maids that cleaned their homes and helped to raise their children.

Kids grow up. Even Miley.

Disclosure - I received free tickets to this event.

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I could hear the sobs from where I was sitting (in the loos at the O2). It was an hour into a Miley Cyrus concert and I needed a "nature break"; my cohort NixdMinx and I had treated ourselves to some much needed glasses of wine. If you are not familiar with Cyrus, she is better known by her Disney manufactured alter ego, Hannah Montana: a squeaky clean teen girl who is secretly a pop star in the hit television series and movie. She is so popular that her 10-date "Wonder World" concerts in the UK sold-out in ten minutes.

The sobs sounded like they were coming from a little girl about my daughter's age, perhaps six or seven. Her mother was trying to console her.