I'm not going to lie: I love me some Newsies. I don't remember if I saw it in a theater, but it's been a favorite at least since my dad brought home the VHS when we were kids. I've since met lots of people for whom it's a childhood favorite or at least a guilty pleasure. It came out on DVD in 2002 (not an unreasonable time frame for a film that ( Read more... )

So, apparently a bunch of people at Disney sat down in the early 90s and said, "We need to make an anti-drug advertisement to tag on the beginning of some of our videos." Someone must have piped up and suggested, "Hey, we're got all those Newsies kids under our thumb, how about using some of them?" Agreement was had ( Read more... )