Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill.

It's me, Lynn Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, December 20, 2021.

Happy Christmas, everyone. On the show today, news surveys including one where Universal asks

about Genie Plus and maybe some listener questions. In our main segment, Jim Hill gives us the history of holiday overlays at Walt Disney World.

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that when Sleeping Beauty spends all day in bed,

she's a beautiful princess, but when he does it, it's all, ooh, clinical depression.

It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going?

Oh, it's going well, then. I wonder, though, did you notice earlier this week we lost Anne Rice.

Oh, she's the interview with a vampire author among other things.

That's right.

But like Stephen King, she was putting out a lot of books.

You know how Stephen King actually used the Richard Bachman name?

An Rice did a series of books under a pseudonym as well.

An Rochler.

And these were four books about the story of Sleeping Beauty.

We have the claiming of Sleeping Beauty in 83, Beauty's Punishment in 85,

followed by Beauty's release and also in 85 and then final book of the series

Beauty's Kingdom in 2015 and Len the only polite thing to say here is

Sleeping Beauty is not awakened with a kiss. This is the R-rated version of the... Oh no no way, this is NC17

Len. So the parents out there, not something to get the children to this holiday but yeah she worked the

sleeping beauty side of the street and in fact it's interesting you mentioned interview

with the vampire because there was the film version in 94 and I want to say that

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