#martin-short

#martin-short

The 15-minute film screened in Epcot's Wonders of Life pavilion from 1989 to 2007. Epcot, in its earliest planning, grew from Walt Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which he called "Progress City." It was a city of the future that he imagined he would actually build one day as a technological utopia. Disney died before it came to be, but Progress City was the inspiration for the half of Epcot dedicated to innovation and science, called Future World.

He recalls being a foster child who learned to stay quiet - "If you make yourself small, maybe the family will let you stay for a while" - until the theater gave him license to be loud and himself. Then he and Loretta take the stage to deliver monologues they had once been denied: hers, a hammy, discarded SVU scene; his, a single line about moldy sausages.

Casting Short for this new revival obviously gives Match Game 2025 another well-known name as emcee, but it's also a synergistic slam dunk.