Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 2, 1995 TAG: 9509050057
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: BURBANK, CALIF. LENGTH: Short
The American Life League maintains there is the audible message ``Good teen-agers, take off your clothes'' in ``Aladdin'' and, in ``The Little Mermaid,'' a wedding official becomes visibly sexually aroused.
The anti-abortion group, based in Stafford, Va., wants the Walt Disney Co. to remove ``The Lion King'' from video stores. It says it was alerted to the appearance of the word by a woman who said her 4-year-old son noticed it.
Disney spokesman Rick Rhoades said Friday that the league is imagining things in all three films and that the company is not recalling video tapes of ``The Lion King.''
The group did not ask that Disney remove ``Aladdin'' and ``The Little Mermaid'' from video stores.
The segment in ``The Lion King'' occurs about midway through the movie when Simba, the hero, plops down and a cloud of dust rises above him. As the dust begins to trail off, it forms the letters S-E-X, with each letter fading as the next becomes clear, the group says.
The league also claims that, in a scene near the end of ``The Little Mermaid,'' a man performing a wedding is shown in profile and gets an erection as the bride and groom approach.
In ``Aladdin,'' the objectionable words are allegedly spoken in a whisper when Prince Ababwa calls on Princess Jasmine in the scene before the magic carpet ride.
by CNB