'Horton' writers pitch their films with song

IT'S an unfortunate occupational hazard that a pitch meeting can sometimes take on the strained air of a prison visit. So you have to wonder whether it was surprised delight or embarrassed horror that Disney executive Kristin Burr experienced when a pair of white Mormon guys pitching their take on a rewrite of a comedy script suddenly broke into a spirited rendition of Frankie Smith's 1981 funk classic "Double Dutch Bus," complete with the rap bridge between Frankie and the girls:Shillzu-gillzar! Willzeye-nilzot, bilzzaby? Willze illzare plizzayin' dizzouble Dizzutch!

By Jay A. Fernandez

March 12, 2008