At the top of his list that includes tax breaks, visas for animal trainers and transportation to Disney theme parks, was a request for Congress to help his company's highest priority: HR2589, a bill to extend the soon-to-expire copyright on Mickey Mouse -- Disney's most precious asset.
At the nearby Mickey's Corner, the local outlet for Walt Disney products, Mickey Mouse-style paraphernalia sucks up millions of renminbi.
Mr. Elo sent Mr. Gomes on a fidgety tear, with a selection of Franz Joseph Haydn cuing the dancemaker's Mickey Mouse-timed tics.
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While many people are agonizing over how closely kids are tracked online, tracking of the little ones in the offline world is taking a Mickey Mouse-sized leap forward.
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And as kid-skewing shows such as "The Mickey Mouse Club" were supplanted in late-afternoon TV schedules by syndicated chat-shows featuring Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin.
But exporting popular cultural totems like Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, Levis jeans, and the iPhone, is one thing.
Standout pieces include a series of faux pre-Columbian clay sculptures featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse and other Disney characters by Nadin Ospina and a time-lapse video by Juan Manuel Echavarria documenting the decay of a fine porcelain plate into a pile of white powder that looks suspiciously like cocaine.
On the other side of the ledger, Walt Disney shares shot up 6.8% after the Mickey Mouse operation booked better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on strength in its cable properties like ESPN and a steady performance from its theme park business.
Nearby is a pile of concrete samples littering the floor beside the Mickey Mouse dolls and other bric-a-brac.
On Thursday, Kinnear was charged with improper conduct after calling referee Martin Atkinson "Mickey Mouse" following a 2-1 defeat at Fulham on 9 November.
Between April and May last year he told people he was helping a sick five-year-old - Ellie Simpson from Leicestershire - go to Florida and meet Mickey Mouse.
Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, ruled among baby boomers, who tuned in every weekday afternoon to watch her on their flickering black-and-white television sets.
As for Hello Kitty, the 25-year-old character may become as durable as Mickey Mouse.
In the morning, plunge into breakfast at the Plaza Garden Restaurant, where the kids will get a kick out of the Mickey Mouse pancakes and you will enjoy the two-for-one discount.
He secured a licensing agreement with the Walt Disney Company and scored a big hit with American-style playing cards adorned with the image of Mickey Mouse.
Though he is already 32 years old he joined the cast of "The Mickey Mouse Club" at age 12 and the boy-band 'N Sync two years later Mr. Timberlake has yet to develop an approach to song that might compensate for the thin timbre of his voice.
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The ceremony followed this lead, featuring traditional Chinese drum music and Mickey Mouse dressed in a traditional, red Tang Chinese suit -- a collarless silk jacket with matching trousers, resplendent with gold accents on the embroidered jacket, toggle buttoning and trouser cuffs.
The pretty, dark-haired Funicello was 13 when she gained fame on "The Mickey Mouse Club, " a kids' variety show that consisted of stories, songs and dance routines.
If you were the owner of the KOOL-AID mark at the time, it raised what certainly was no MICKEY MOUSE trademark problem.
In 1993, Justin was singing, dancing and acting in the Disney Channel's "The Mickey Mouse Club" alongside a group who would later become a who's-who of teenage idols, including Ryan Gosling, Cristina Aguilera, J.
If these MagicBands save Disney-goers time waiting on line, they will be as big a hit as Mickey Mouse.
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Last Friday, Mickey Mouse, Winnie The Pooh, Dumbo, Snow White, and Tigger performed for Kim Jong-Un in a rather unusual concert, in Pyongyang.
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