Mike Wazowski
Mike Wazowski James P. Sullivan’s monster friend in Monsters, Inc.; voiced by Billy Crystal.
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Mighty Joe Young (film)
Mighty Joe Young (film) Zoologist Gregg O’Hara is exploring the remote Pangani Mountains in Central Africa when he comes upon an incredible discovery–an awesome 15-foot gorilla. Fearsome and dangerous when provoked, he is tame in the hands of Jill, the 21-year-old orphan who raised the gorilla and named him Joe. When Joe’s life is threatened …
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Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off (video) Animated movie, tying together television episodes, released on video on April 8, 1997. The evil Lord Dragaunus returns to Puckworld, a peaceful planet of hockey-loving ducks, from a distant galaxy to take revenge against the inhabitants who once banished him. A special strike team of six young …
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Mighty Ducks (television) Animated television series; premiered on September 6, 1996 in syndication and on ABC the following day. The ABC run ended on August 30, 1997. A combination hockey team and band of superheroes, part-duck and part-human, show off their hockey prowess at the Anaheim Pond rink. Elsewhere, they use their high-tech tools and …
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Mighty Ducks, The (film)
Mighty Ducks, The (film) A competitive, aggressive trial lawyer, Gordon Bombay, is sentenced to community service—coaching a peewee hockey team full of clumsy misfits. Bombay, who formerly played hockey himself, finds his work cut out for him, as he has to teach the team to skate, to score, and to win. The reluctant coach becomes …
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Midnight Madness (film) A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one another while trying to locate and decipher various cryptic clues planted ingeniously around Los Angeles. Released on February 8, 1980. Directed by David Wechter and Michael Nankin. 112 min. …
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Mighty Ducks, The Disney’s first entry into the realm of professional sports. In 1992, the company founded the Mighty Ducks hockey team, named for the team in Walt Disney Pictures’ The Mighty Ducks, as an expansion team in the National Hockey League. They were ready for league play in the 1993-94 season, and their first …
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Midler, Bette Actress; appeared in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Barbara Whiteman), Ruthless People (Barbara Stone), Outrageous Fortune (Sandy), Big Business (Sadie Shelton/Sadie Ratliff), Beaches (C. C. Bloom), Stella (Stella Claire), Scenes from a Mall (Deborah), and Hocus Pocus (Winifred), and provided the voice of Georgette in Oliver & Company. She also starred in …
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Midget Autopia Fantasyland attraction at Disneyland; opened April 23, 1957, and closed April 3, 1966. Walt supposedly did not like the attraction because only children could ride it. When he had it removed from Disneyland, he donated it to his boyhood hometown of Marceline, Missouri, where it was installed in the Walt Disney Park (though …
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Midnight in a Toy Shop (film) Silly Symphony cartoon; released on August 16, 1930. Directed by Wilfred Jackson. In its exploration of a toy shop, a spider has unnerving experiences with various activated toys, a lighted candle, and firecrackers.
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