Just as in the Disney movie "Dumbo," elephants in the past have been dressed up as people and trained to do a range of tricks: play baseball, ride bicycles, play musical instruments, wear wedding ...

5. The name: Submarine pilots gave the octopuses their nickname because their fins resemble the ears of the cartoon character “Dumbo, the Flying Elephant.” Vecchione has seen many videos of ...

The original includes a sequence in which Dumbo accidentally drinks champagne. While drunk, he hallucinates a number of pink elephants marching and singing a psychedelic tune. The nearly five ...

There’s a peculiarly 19th-century sensibility at work in Dumbo, both the 1941 Walt ... when he sees a cartoon fantasia of dancing pink soap-bubble elephants (Burton’s suitably semi-sinister ...

The annual Dumbo Drop returns Friday, May 30, bringing with it thousands of toy elephants parachuting from ... New this year: a high-energy dance party led by Life Time’s star trainer Joseph ...

Burton knows he’s got to have some kind of “Pink Elephants” bit, but he can’t let baby Dumbo get drunk, and he can’t think what else to do to replicate the surreal quality of the original.