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...right, but who wants reality? The whole point of theme parks is to be transported to a place that's cleaner, safer and more fun than real life. If Disney's illusioners can persuade 7 million more people to double the time they spend here, they will have transformed what they like to call "the Happiest Place on Earth" into one of the busiest--and also one of the most profitable...
...Army brat who started writing stories in the third grade, Parks was nudged into theater by James Baldwin, her creative-writing teacher at Mount Holyoke. Now she has caught the attention, against all odds, of Disney, which has hired her to write a musical about the Harlem Globetrotters. "I don't set out to make statements," she says. "I like theater that comes from the guts." And theater that has guts...
...judge this park by its cover. At the front gate to Disney's California Adventure, just across the way from the original Disneyland, the state's name is spelled out in 11 1/2-ft.-high letters, widely spaced to spread across the entrance. Beyond the logo you see a clever mix of shimmering images: the Golden Gate Bridge (it carries the park monorail) above Hollywood Boulevard and, at the far horizon, a flawless Pacific sunset...
...this California? Not exactly. You will find no Road Rage bumper-car ride. No Catastrophe California with floods, earthquakes and forest fires. No halls with animatronic Mansons and O.J.s. This is "California": a dreamland built by Disney Imaginers; a G-rated makeover of the tarnished Golden State; a living movie fantasy--the reel thing...
...that's fine for a state that was established on gold fever and whose most famous exports are Baywatch, Tom Cruise...and the Disney empire. Why shouldn't a Disney "California" be Disneyfied? Walt's people invented the idea of an amusement park as a spiffy alternative universe. They perfected it. They still do it best...