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...gold-medal victory, she returned to her rounds at the hospital. Or at least tried to. The hospital held a congratulatory press conference; the USC band serenaded her outside the hospital; and she got a standing ovation at Dodger stadium. The celebration continues this week with a trip to Disney World, a visit with President Clinton and an appearance on David Letterman. "It's been a whirlwind," says Richardson. "But going on my rounds, I realized it's not the end for anything, it's the beginning...
...scenery and special effects of the ruins of Los Angeles are fabulous and make for some good one-liners. In one scene, Snake and Map To The Stars Eddie (Steve Buscemi) come upon the remains of Disney Land. Eddie points to the park and utters an incisive one-liner: "It's a shame. That thing in Europe really killed...
Others are following the same script. DreamWorks--the fledgling entertainment company founded by Steven Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and former Disney studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg--originally planned to release three films in 1996 and five in 1997. But don't go running to the multiplex: DreamWorks has put only one film in production. "It's a very, very crowded marketplace, where films are going to be pushed out of theaters," Geffen says. "It's sane to make fewer films...
Katzenberg was part of Team Disney when the studio began to ratchet up. At the time Disney did not own a network or any other pipeline into viewers' living rooms. The company calculated that it needed to become a dominant supplier of programming so that it wouldn't be squeezed out by rivals like Fox and Time Warner, which owned cable systems or other outlets for their own movies. Once Disney stepped on the gas, some of its rivals followed suit. Soon a glut of pictures was fighting for screen space. The result: opening-weekend carnage...
Paramount boss Jon Dolgen says studios will make more films together to share costs and spread risks. TriStar is teaming with Disney, for example, on Starship Troopers, an expensive sci-fi epic directed by Robocop's Paul Verhoeven that is taking the same July 4 slot occupied so successfully this year by Independence...