* Walt Kowalski, the protagonist, a traditional Korean War veteran in a changing world, in the 2008 film Gran Torino played by Clint Eastwood

Other notable roles include The Stranger in High Plains Drifter, Philo Beddoe in Every Which Way but Loose and its sequel Any Which Way You Can, Preacher in Pale Rider, William Munny in Unforgiven, Frankie Dunn in Million Dollar Baby and Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino.

In addition to the auditory effects of spatial location and metaphoric notions of space, Reynolds has responded to various architectural spaces, creating works explicitly for performance in various buildings, including Arata Isozaki's Art Tower Mito and also his Gran Ship, Kenzo Tange's Olympic Gymnasium in Tokyo, Louis I. Kahn's Salk Institute, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, Christian de Portzamparc's Cité de la Musique, Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, and the Great Hall of the Library of Congress.

: On November 11, 2008 The Walt Disney Company released a limited pressing of 39, 500 issues of The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh in DVD format for the first time as a part of the Disney Treasures collection, and was now called Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.

DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics ( currently owned by Time Warner's main rival The Walt Disney Company ) together shared over 80 % of the American comic-book market in 2008.

The second cousin to be introduced was criminal scientist Portis ( Plottigat in the original Italian version ; English name first used in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 695, 2008 ).

On November 11, 2008, the eighth wave of Walt Disney Treasures was released.

From September 2006 to September 2008, Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar appeared together for meet-and-greets in Town Square at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.

Squinch's most recent United States appearance was in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 689 ( 2008 ), published by Gemstone.

From September 2006 to September 2008, Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow appeared together for meet-and-greets in Town Square at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.

Dench became the voice for the narration for the updated Walt Disney World Epcot attraction Spaceship Earth in February 2008.

Parks worked with Inara George on a record released in 2008, An Invitation, and they performed two songs together on 8 January 2008 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, as part of the program Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City.

On the 2008 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade special on ABC, Disney announced that a Tinker Bell float would be added to the classic Disney's Electrical Parade at Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort, the first new float to be added since even long before the parade ended its original run at Disneyland in 1996.

* 2008 – " Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Four " ( DVD )

In 2008 – 2009, James Shortt, Director General of the International Bodyguard Association, claiming SAS and Parachute Regiment service, was outed as a " Walt " by the British Army Rumour Service ( ARRSE ) website and subsequently reported on by Private Eye and The Sun.

The Seasons of the Vine attraction was closed in March 2008 and replaced by Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar.

* October 20, 2008: Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar opens, replacing Seasons of the Vine Theater.

The area is home to the Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar, which opened in October 2008.

These include Disneyland ( 1954 – 1958 ), Walt Disney Presents ( 1958 – 1961 ), Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color ( 1961 – 1969 ), The Wonderful World of Disney ( 1969 – 1979 ), Disney's Wonderful World ( 1979 – 1981 ), Walt Disney ( 1981 – 1983 ), The Disney Sunday Movie ( 1986 – 1988 ), The Magical World of Disney ( 1988 – 1996 ), then finally back to The Wonderful World of Disney ( 1997 – 2008, 2012 – present ), and The Magical World of Disney Junior ( 2012 – present ).

* In 2008, another new orchestral arrangement of " When You Wish Upon a Star " ( the theme from the current Walt Disney Pictures logo, orchestrated by Mark Mancina ) and a brand-new opening title sequence ( depicting a montage of the company's work ) were shown.

Chang had her recital at Carnegie Hall on April 7, 2007 with British pianist Ashley Wass, and continued to perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen and make appearances with the former at both the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall throughout 2008.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the film on DVD ( again, this time with an anamorphic transfer ) and on Blu-ray Disc ( for the first time ) in August 2008 as a two-disc digitally remastered " collector's edition ", but still containing the same special features.

Esquire magazine endorsed Simpson for Idaho's Second Congressional District in the 2008 elections, but endorsed Democrat Walt Minnick for Idaho's First Congressional District.

A June 2008 press release for the Walt Disney Treasures line revealed Destino was being excluded from a 2008 Treasures release.

Capp is often associated with two other giants of the medium: Milton Caniff ( Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ) and Walt Kelly ( Pogo ).

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).

These skillfully rendered paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks (" A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By ", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 108 by Barks ).

Often slow-moving and overbearing with " cuteness ", Jones ' early cartoons were an attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney's shorts ( especially with such cartoons as Tom Thumb in Trouble and the Sniffles cartoons ).

During this interim, Jones found employment at Walt Disney Pictures, where he teamed with Ward Kimball for a four month period of uncredited work on Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).

* Foreign rights to the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, are currently owned by ABC through Walt Disney Pictures but Paramount still owns North American rights ( both Paramount and ABC share copyrights ).

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).

Unlike his prior films ( or any that would follow ), The Straight Story was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures after a successful debut at Cannes, was given a G rating by the MPAA and is the only Lynch film for which Lynch himself did not have a hand in the screenplay ( although it was co-written by his recurring associate, Mary Sweeney ).

Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination ( 2006 ).

They soon turned over creative duties to married collaborators Louise Simonson ( writer ) and Walt Simonson ( artist ).

The Walt Disney Studios released the animated feature films Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ), Fantasia ( 1941 ), and Bambi ( 1942 ).

At the presentation, Walt Disney explained the plans for the site, including EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which was to be a futuristic planned city ( and which was also known as Progress City ).

Disney CEO Michael Eisner took an especially keen interest in the development of the new town in the early days, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to " make history " and develop a town worthy of the Disney brand and legacy that extended to Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ( EPCOT ).

The name Epcot derives from the acronym EPCOT ( Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney ( sometimes using the word " City " instead of " Community " when expanding the acronym ).

" from Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), substituting the name of the celebrated English author ( 1882 – 1941 ).

The poetry of Walt Whitman also had a profound effect on Holst, as it did with many of his contemporaries, and he set Whitman's words in " Dirge for Two Veterans " and The Mystic Trumpeter ( 1904 ).

In 1982, the critics moved to a syndicated commercial television show named At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and in 1986 they left to create Siskel & Ebert & The Movies with Buena Vista Television ( part of the Walt Disney Company ).

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

The documentary, created by Iwerks ' granddaughter Leslie Iwerks, was released as part of The Walt Disney Treasures, Wave VII series ( disc two of The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit collection ).

After the merger with Disney, ABC became sister company to a record label group once again, the Buena Vista Music Group ( which includes such labels as Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records ).

As for the ABC-owned Selznick films, distribution is now the responsibility of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ( Disney Enterprises currently owns ABC ).