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Hi everyone! I have some bad news that I want to share with you all. At Walt Disney World, it appears that they are laying off show entertainers, casts a dark shadow on popular Disney attractions such as ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Monsters Inc.’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ were affected, among others. The Orlando Sentinel first reported that entertainers of some of its most popular live shows, including “Festival of the Lion King” or “Finding Nemo: The Musical,” were let go on Tuesday.
Performers on Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom park and entertainers of the Citizens of Hollywood at Disney’s Hollywood Studios were reportedly also included in the cuts. The Disney website lists the aforementioned shows as “temporarily unavailable” but it’s important to note those statuses have appeared on the website for months, as a majority of them had already been shut down due to social distancing requirements.
Disney World is also laying off 720 performers because of the pandemic. Only 60 Equity performers are working or returning to work at the Orlando, Florida-based theme park resort, the union said in a statement.
The performer layoffs come weeks after The Walt Disney Co. announced it was eliminating 28,000 jobs in its park’s division in California and Florida because of restrictions and costs from the pandemic. Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involve part-time workers.
“Our hearts go out to all the cast members at Walt Disney World,” said Kate Shindle, president of Actors’ Equity Association. “Disney has made it clear that our members would face work reductions since they announced layoffs of nearly 28,000 employees. That does not make this news any less painful.”
Across Florida, the numbers of those testing positive — while still way down from the state’s summertime peak — have begun inching up over the past week, prompting a school in Orlando to return to virtual classes and the mayor of Jacksonville has extended a mask mandate through Thanksgiving Day.
On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said during an appearance in central Florida that he has lobbied President Donald Trump to loosen travel restrictions from critical travel markets like Brazil and Europe, in hopes of jump-starting tourism into the state’s tourist attractions and beaches.
On Wednesday, Florida health officials confirmed 4,115 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the statewide total since the pandemic began to 790,426. The state also confirmed 66 new deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll from COVID-19 to 16,775.
There were 2,336 people being treated for the disease in Florida hospitals in the late morning Wednesday, according to a state online census of hospital beds. That figure reached nearly 10,000 in late July, then declined steadily until late September when it began hovering between 2,000 and 2,200 for several weeks.
In Fort Lauderdale, City Manager Chris Lagerbloom is among a dozen city employees to test positive for the coronavirus, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. Listed among those employees who are quarantining are 10 police officers and eight firefighters who may have come into contact with an infected individual while responding to calls.
Disneyland Paris is closing on October 30 which is this Friday due to the Covid-19 lockdown and it may last through December 1, but it will reevaluate every two weeks.
All of this information came from the Disney news I look at.
So, what do you guys think about this Disney information?
I would like to hear some comments, thoughts, or opinions down below.
Stay tuned for more Disney updates.
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Writer: Justin Richards / Artist: Val Halvorson / Vault Comics
Content warning: domestic violence
It’s hard for me to believe it, but eight months ago I sat down to read Finger Guns #1, and I found myself endeared to Wes and Sadie after their introduction. Two teenagers who inexplicably found themselves with the power to manipulate emotions with a point of the finger, just trying to do the best they can. The magical realism premise was solid, and the story felt like it a lot of different directions it could go in. And in those intervening eight months, it kinda fell off my radar until a couple weeks ago when I saw that the series had been collected into a trade back, and lemme tell you, Richards and Halverson have apparently been doing a lot of incredible this year.
Given that it had been several months since I’ve read the first issue, I had forgotten that the first chapter ends with the reveal that Sadie’s father was abusive, and after seeing out how her story unfolds, it makes me appreciate how Richards structured the story even more. One of the memorable moments in the first chapter is Wes using his newly found powers on a stranger and its unintended consequences, and this moment acts as a brilliant moment of foreshadowing and thematic resonance.
Finger Guns is a story about teenagers reckoning with their emotions, and specifically, about teenagers with difficult home situations trying to find solace during a confusing time. Wes is still reeling from the death of his mother and Sadie is an actively bad situation and just wants to protect her own well being and her mother’s. And the arc is structured in such a brilliant way that it explores the different coping mechanisms and reactions. The duo have the ability to change emotions with a literal point of the finger, so of course they experiment and in the process learn that you can’t avoid your problems with blissful ignorance, but that you can’t lash out either.
The recurring thread through this collection is Sadie’s struggles with domestic violence and Wes’s attempts to be there for his new friend. And one of the things that I wasn’t expecting was how violent Finger Guns was capable of getting, but the violence was done with a specific purpose and intent.
Richards and Halverson depicts the realities of domestic abuse with a simple and direct approach, further pronounced by Esposito’s lettering. It makes the story difficult to read at times, but it makes it a poignant read and the way that it interfaces with the magical realism of the finger guns is incredibly fascinating. The heart of the story is poignant. The friendship that grows between the main characters is endearing, and the ending provides a much needed catharsis, and I was constantly impressed by how tight the story telling was.
This book covered an entire spectrum of the teenage experience, and encapsulates its high and lows in a very memorable way. It’s a book that will likely need to skew to slightly older readers given the mature topics that the book covers, but it’s a book that approaches the topic in an accessible way that gives an honest perspective. As I turned the last page, I found myself thinking that the story had reached an appropriate conclusion, but that I would instantly revisit the lives of Wes and Sadie, and I definitely think Finger Guns is gonna stick with me for a while.
9.1 “Gestures” out of 10
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