Aladdin (1992 Disney film) based on Disney workers. Beast, Sebastian from "The Little Mermaid", and Pinocchio make brief appearances, and the wardrobe of the Genie at the end of the film—Goofy hat, Hawaiian shirt, and sandals—are a reference to a short film that Robin Williams did for the Disney-MGM Studios tour in the late 1980s. In gratitude for his success with Touchstone Pictures' "Good Morning, Vietnam", Robin Williams voiced the Genie for SAG scale pay ($75,000) instead of his asking fee of $8 million, on condition that his name or image not be used for marketing, and his (supporting) character not take more than
The Flounder brilliant writing in "The Flounder". For a writer justly famous for extended humorous and grotesque scenes, Grass also has a flair for one-liners. Herbert Mitgang of the "New York Times" noted that the novel was about "women, men and the state of the world" and since all are controversial, so was the reaction to Grass' novel. It defies an easy summary, as the narrator tells of his many lives as a husband, including as a lover to 11 women cooks. The Flounder The Flounder () is a 1977 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. It is loosely based on