See Walt Roll Over
If the turrets of the golden castle on The Little Mermaid video
box look vaguely, er, masculine to you, you're not alone. On
Burbank, Calif., radio station KPWR, the gossip team known as the
Hollywood Kids recently reported that a disgruntled Disney animator
drew in phallic symbols as vengeance for being fired from another
Disney project. ''We had listeners who had the box at home call in,''
says Bob Gifford, producer of KPWR's Morning Zoo program. ''Most of
them would say, 'I don'' see anything phallic about it,' then they'd
pause and say, 'Oh, wait a minute!''' A Disney Home Video ,
spokesperson says, ''We won't even honor that with a comment. A board
of animators reviews everything very carefully. I think the whole
thing was just faaricated (by the Hollywood Kids) to get airplay.''
Says Lance, one of the Hollywood Kids: ''All we will say is, look at
that castle.''
Title Of The Week
Robo-C.H.I.C. (A.I.P.; $79.95), starring Playboy playmate Kathy
Showers and Burt Ward (Robin on TV's Batman series).
According to the box, she's ''Part Cop, Part Machine, ALL WOMAN.''
Video Run-Off
A new study commissioned by Macrovision, a company that produces
anticopying devices for videotape, claims the video industry loses
$500 million a year to consumers who copy pre-recorded tapes for
themselves and their friends. The study, by a New York research firm,
says 41 percent of all VCR owners have either tried to copy tapes or
had friends make copies for them. Single VCR households average 3.9
bootleg copies each, while multiple VCR households have an average of
15.3 renegade copies. — With additional reporting by Steve Daly
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