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Only naive Americans would invest so much money in a country where anti-Americanism is spreading. President François Mitterrand openly attacks the U.S., and Premier Laurent Fabius blames America for every French ill. Disney Chairman Michael Eisner has made a mistake in choosing the Marne-la-Vallée for the company's first European Disney theme park. Bad weather in that region will keep this amusement park closed at least four months a year. My prediction: Eisner will lose "his" $1.8 billion and will be forced to pack Mickey's bags and run to Spain begging forgiveness. Anthony Mantykowsky...
...Carol & Ted & Alice, also a nervously ambiguous but hilariously etched caricature of the bourgeois at self-improving play. In his desire to back away pleasantly from some of his tale's more critical implications, he relies too much on reaction shots of Matisse for easy, innocent laughs. Well, Disney did produce the film (its first with an R rating), and on the basically farcical level where it chooses to stay, it is a funny and likable movie. --By Richard Schickel...
...what has been a bumpy start to the summer scream season. In April a teenager and her 11-year-old cousin were stranded for more than an hour atop the new Insanity ride above the Las Vegas Strip when high winds caused the ride to shut down. At Disney World in Orlando, Fla., a 4-year-old boy died after passing out on Mission: Space, a turbulent motion-simulator ride. (An investigation is under way; no safety problems have been found.) And the new Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., billed as the fastest...
Eons ago, Walt Disney cornered this market with cartoon features that comforted parents and scared kids with the same implied admonition: Get home before dark. Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo, for all their craft and wonder, were essentially horror films that exploited the separation anxiety that children felt on their first day of school. The noise you heard back then from kids in the theater was a primal scream...
...Germany's Radio Bremen to create a new work for soprano and orchestra, and the febrile Voodoo Child (1989) was born. A flood of commissions followed, climaxing last year with her most ambitious work, Ecstatic Architecture, for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's inaugural season at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall. Inspired by Frank Gehry's gravity-defying architecture, the piece saw Lim's musical standing soar. In November, the Festival D'Automne in Paris will premiere three new pieces, continuing a French love affair with her work. "It's a bit of an empire thing for them," Lim explains...