A collaboration between Disney and Blue Cross and Blue Shield to help teach kids to "fight bad habits," the Epcot attraction and tie-in app and Web page featured buff, virtuous characters Will Power and Callie Stenics squaring off against nemeses like the lazy, grotesque "Lead Bottom" and the self-explanatorily named "Glutton." Apparently, when a company famed for its meticulous crafting of exactly what children want and one of the largest health insurers in the nation pool their talents, they come up with "Fat people are bad."

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The movie -- which takes place far from "Cars's" Radiator Springs, in the Scottish Highlands -- brings us Pixar's first-ever female protagonist: a flame-haired princess called Merida. Entertainment Weekly has more:

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"America's Got Talent" contestant Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., a car washer from West Virginia, was chided by Piers Morgan for chewing gum onstage. Then he opened his mouth so the ghost of Frank Sinatra could come out singing "I've Got You Under My Skin." Goosebumps!

2. A tribute to Ryan Dunn that will last a lifetime

"Jackass'" Wee-Man, (aka Jason Acuna) cuts through all the anger and flame wars surrounding his friend's death and gives him a uniquely touching memorial.

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Sometimes you're just the victim of a bad situation, like when those hackers leaked racy photos you took in 2008 for Joe Jonas, and posted them all over the Internet. Or when this happened again in 2010 and the FBI was called in.

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Disney's intentions were misunderstood, according to a person familiar with the entertainment company's plans. Disney, which owns the ABC television network, is considering a TV show about the elite squad, similar to other fictional dramas about real-life arms of the military, such as "NCIS" and "JAG."

Plans for Disney's SEALs show remain tentative, the person familiar with the matter said. The other potential uses listed on the application didn't necessarily reflect products the company intended to create, this person said.

Good for Disney for realizing that it's probably crass to try to trademark SEAL Team 6 for snow globes and a new character named Navy the SEAL (he's a giant seal) posing for pictures with the kids in the Magic Kingdom.

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Anyway, in normal American speech it was once called "the prom" or "the senior prom"; these days "Prom" seems to have become a trademarked proper noun, and also a subset or metastatic offshoot of the corporatized girl-culture that brought us the princess craze. I suppose if my daughter (who is 7) had heard about Disney's "Prom" and wanted to see it, I'd let her go, with kind of a sinking feeling just below my solar plexus. First of all, it wouldn't make much of an impression on her because it's so boring, and second of all, it would strike her as a story set among a Stepfordian alien civilization, one with similar artifacts to our own but entirely different folkways and hairstyles.

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Which is why, when Robert Zemeckis (the man behind all the movies above) declared in 2008 that he was going to remake The Beatles' 60 psychedelic cartoon "Yellow Submarine" using his trademark digital filmmaking style, it bordered on sacrilegious. We already had those creepy simulacrums of John and George playing in Beatles: Rock Band, and we hadn't heard anyone clamoring for more money to be made off of faux-sincere tributes to the band.

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It has not been a great year for the elder Cyrus. In October, he filed for divorce from his wife, Tish. Less than a week later, video of his daughter enthusiastically enjoying a bongful of what was later reported to be salvia surfaced. She turned 18 in November, ended her "Hannah Montana" Disney series to record-breaking ratings in January, and is now, by her father's account, living a life that's "a train wreck."

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As the New York Times reported earlier this week, in the past month, Disney representatives have quietly moved into 580 maternity hospitals around the country, offering new moms a free "Disney Cuddly Bodysuit" with assorted beloved Disney characters, and encouraging them to sign up for e-mail alerts from Disney Baby, where "Disney Momgineers have been weaving their magic to create the softest, most huggable, cuddliest designs that are also cute as a button." Apparently the talking mice and sparrows they'd originally contracted to do the garment work wanted to unionize. The full new Disney baby line rolls out in stores and online in May.

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As a mother of two young Barbie-loving daughters myself, I was riveted by Orenstein's blend of self-deprecation and outrage -- and eager to talk to her during the New York City leg of her book tour about baby princesses, the insidiousness of pink and, of course, Hannah Montana.

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And then there's "Tron." The science fiction flick about a hacker who gets sucked into the virtual world was a modest success when it was released in 1982, but its digital special effects and ahead-of-its-time storyline quickly made it legendary in nerd circles. I was a high school student and massive dork (not necessarily in that order) at the time, in a town whose domination by Stevens Institute of Technology made it fertile soil for lots of "Tron" obsession. Today, movies about vaguely heroic computer dweebs get nominated for Golden Globes. Back then, "Porky's" was more the order of the day, and "Lawnmower Man" was still a decade away.

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The chief executive of Tutor-Saliba Corp. confirmed Friday that the group of investors he leads completed its deal to buy the award-laden studio Miramax Films from The Walt Disney Co.

Disney said the sale to Filmyard Holdings LLC was for $663 million, subject to certain adjustments. Filmyard's investors include Tutor, real estate investment group Colony Capital LLC and its CEO Tom Barrack and Qatar Holding LLC, the Middle Eastern country's investment firm.

The deal was announced in July, but its closing was delayed amid concerns about bank financing.

Tutor on Friday told The Associated Press that Barclays PLC was the lead bank in the financing.

"Everybody's smiling," he said. "We're excited, moving forward."

Mike Lang, a former business development executive at New Corp., has been hired as Miramax's new chief executive, Tutor said. He added that he would be more at liberty to talk about plans for the studio next week.

Miramax was founded in 1979 by Harvey and Bob Weinstein and named after their parents Miriam and Max. The studio is behind a string of Oscar winners including "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), "Chicago" (2002) and "No Country for Old Men" (2007).

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While Lovato first made headlines last week for allegedly being treated for an eating disorder, the reasons for her entry into rehab could be a little more complicated than that. A Texas college student claims he saw the pop princess doing "line after line like a pro" at a house party. Oh, it gets worse: Someone claims to have caught the whole thing on video. Money quote: "F**k all of you, I'm famous, I don't care what any of you think of me the whole world loves me!" Lovato was 17 years old at the time.

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After "Zoey 101" star Jamie Lynn Spears became a mother, my daughters and I had numerous conversations about how you don't have to be married – or even a grown-up – to have a baby.  Miley Cyrus has prompted discussions about sexy dancing and how sometimes, creepy people take pictures of girls' underpants. And believe me, it's a challenge to explain why you're implementing a strict "no Googling Vanessa Hudgens" policy. Just yesterday, my kids were begging me to stop under the big sign with Demi Lovato's face on it in the clothing department of Target, where racks of extra small sequined tank tops beckoned. Today, they're asking why the 18-year-old star is going to a treatment center. And what's a treatment center?

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday that 22-year-old Noor Abdallah was told she couldn't wear the hijab while working as a vacation planner at a Disneyland Resort Esplanade ticket booth. She declined to take another job away from the public.

Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown says the park worked with Abdallah to design a covering to match her costume and meet her religious needs. She's been wearing a blue scarf topped with a beret since early this month.

Brown says the case is separate from that of another Muslim Disney worker who refused to accept a costume headpiece and filed a federal discrimination complaint.

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Tinker Bell and her mischievous crew of fluttery scamps have been familiar to little girls – and their parents – ever since Disney rolled out the fairy franchise in the mid 2000s. They're a clever way of keeping girls who've outgrown the whole princess thing locked in the Mouse's clutches a little longer, and the closest thing Disney has to Bratz. And from the day the company launched its online community Pixiehollow.com in 2008, kids have been able to reinvent themselves as their own sparkly fairy avatars – as long as those avatars were girls.

But children are pretty resourceful little gender warriors. The open secret around the Hollow has long been that if you make your fairy tall, with short hair, and give her an ambiguous name like Jamie, she can pretty quickly establish a reputation as a he. Hey, Mom and Dad, we've got your rigid gender roles right here.

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I want to entice you into seeing a movie that you are not allowed to see. Rest assured, I do not take this lightly. But you should be frustrated, because the reasons why you aren't allowed to screen the second half of this double bill is why the first half got made.

When word of the production of "The Princess and the Frog" got out, the controversy began. How would it get around the racial issues of a black would-be princess, living in the South in the 1920s?

The answer turns out to be easy. By doing what the Disney organization has always done best.Inventing reality. Ducking controversy. And making money. Case in point.

Released this week on DVD, "The Princess and the Frog" is a marvel of neo-classic animation and cultural avoidance. Set in New Orleans, the plucky Princess Tiana's traditional "I Want" song outlines the plot in all the detail we need. She's "almost there" to her dream of running her own restaurant, but not so fast. Her destination is changed by an encounter with an evil voodoo man and a hunky and oddly hued prince who apparently hails from the same "Pseudogravia" much beloved in Marx Brothers movies.

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But why would you stop at, say, not making another movie with 'princess' in the title, when you could do even more to protect your business from the damning effects of girl cooties? There's more!  "Concluding that it had too many animated girl flicks in its lineup, Disney has shelved its long-gestating project 'The Snow Queen,' based on the Hans Christian Andersen story." And just to be on the safe side, the studio has also "renamed its next animated film with the girl-centric name 'Rapunzel' to the less gender-specific 'Tangled'" and beefed up the male lead.

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