Fox is developing a contemporary take on Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.The project, which is tentatively titled Georgia and the Seven Associates, will be produced by ABC Studios, written by Chris Brancato, David Weissman and David Diamond, and directed by Office alum Ken Kwapis, says The Hollywood Reporter.The hour-long dramedy, is set around a modern Snow White character — a young lawyer named Georgia Burnett. She's been banished from a law firm run by her stepmother and must team up with seven quirky lawyers at a storefront legal office.Producer Chris Brancato told The Reporter, "It is L.A. Law vs. the little engine that could." The associates at the firm will have the personalities (no word on if they will have the physical traits, like a allergy prone Sneezy) of the Seven Dwarfs: Doc will be an ambulance chaser who carries neck braces in his trunk.Adding to the fairy tale theme, some of the legal cases will be modernized fables, like one about three people ...
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Because nothing is sacred at Walt Disney Pictures anymore, the studio is developing Snow and the Seven, a live-action take on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in which an English girl trains for battle with seven Shaolin monks. Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) has just come aboard to direct.... Disney Pictures has also bought the rights to the upcoming graphic novel — and, judging from the title, merchandising bonanza — Pet Robots.
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Question: I know the Oscar statuettes are about a foot tall and weigh 8 pounds, but what are they made of, and is it true that they got their name because someone said it looked like their Uncle Oscar? That sounds like a made-up story.
Answer: Last part first: The official story is indeed that Margaret Herrick, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' first librarian in 1931 and its executive director from 1943 to 1971 (and for whom the Academy's Los Angeles library, where I've done my share of research, is named), saw one of the statuettes (designed by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons for the first ceremony in 1929) on a desk and exclaimed that it looked just like her Uncle Oscar. Which is sort of alarming in that it implies that her uncle was a bald nudist with a thing for (perhaps compensatory) swords. Many people prefer the slightly ruder version in which Bette Davis sugge
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