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Main Street U.S.A at the new Hong Kong Disneyland looks exactly like the one most Americans remember from their childhood, but it won't taste the same. The classic Disney thoroughfare of quaint buildings and gas streetlights has been lovingly re-created from the original theme park Walt Disney built in Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century...
...park's success isn't a sure thing. Disney faces a special hurdle in China. Until a few years ago, hardly anyone knew Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck even existed. Disney characters were banned for nearly 40 years after Mao's takeover. Now Chinese kids are familiar with the classic characters--in part from pirated DVDs--but their knowledge of Disney lore is limited. "This is the first market where we've opened a park in which we don't have a long-term relationship with our guests," says Rasulo...
...there is so much more. There is a hardness and a romanticism to his work." To showcase those signature qualities, many designers would have recreated the kind of 1950s couture salon setting that recalled the glory days of founder Hubert de Givenchy. Tisci's return to what he called classics went further, banishing scenery, seating, even the runway. A throng of fashion press and buyers meandered through the dusty salons of Givenchy's Paris headquarters to view models in chiffon dresses and embroidered fur jackets posing as if in an avant-garde art installation. Tisci may be haute couture...
...production itself is a little less straightforward. For tax reasons, the Isle of Man is standing in for Yorkshire, while, for reasons clear only to Classic Media, holder of the rights to Lassie, everyone on the set is required to stick to the fiction that Lassie is being played by a single dog named Lassie. Actually, three collies named Carter, Mason and Dakota share the part. "We have the stunt dog, the running dog and the picture dog," trainer Mathilde de Cagny whispers. "We do a little bit of makeup on the picture dog to darken...
...deal with the pressures of remaking what some feel is a classic? Did you see the original series of films before starting? What did you think of the originals...