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...also be the Disney World of the 21st century. Scrubbed (or at least whitewashed) of its reputation as a Mob town infatuated with scuzzy strippers and sleazy comics, Las Vegas today is a leading family-resort destination, with theme parks, water parks and high-tech arcades in nearly every new hotel. And where families go, wholesome entertainment follows. That's one reason the Flamingo Hilton, the house that gangster Bugsy Siegel built, hired the Rockettes, whose high kicking and higher kitsch remind us that their brand of dance is as much a part of 20th century culture as anything choreographed...
...more banks with his new Beau Rivage resort next year. The Grand's Kirk Kerkorian, when he's not plotting his takeover of Chrysler, looks at plans for his new hostelry, New York-New York, whose facade will be in the shape of the Manhattan skyline. Even the Walt Disney Co. is rumored to be looking at Las Vegas property-though Disney chairman Michael Eisner denies any interest in bringing Disney to Vegas...
When Spielberg formed DreamWorks with Geffen and former Disney movie czar Jeffrey Katzenberg, he realized both his value to MCA (he had kept Universal profitable with such hits as E.T., Back to the Future and Jurassic Park) and his personal debt to Sheinberg, whom he calls a mentor. So DreamWorks said some of its products could be distributed by MCA-in a deal that could be worth $1 billion over the next decade-if Matsushita would keep Sheinberg and chairman Lew Wasserman aboard. The Japanese never responded to the offer...
DreamWorks SKG could become a nightmare if there are creative differences among the trio. The result could be similar to what happened when Katzenberg dramatically departed from the Walt Disney Co. One important difference is that the trio will be competing with other entertainment firms in Hollywood. These companies have been in business long enough to know the environment well. However, the director (Spielberg), the musician (Geffen) and the animator (Katzenberg) will not realize the threat that other companies pose until they are fully operational. The three will go their separate ways after establishing DreamWorks. But for now Hollywood...
Priest, then, is no Going My Way. And Good Friday was perhaps not the ideal day for Miramax Films to schedule Priest for wide release. Small wonder that a few of the faithful were miffed. The Catholic League threatened a boycott of Miramax's owner, the Walt Disney Co., before Miramax moved the date back. Disney hardly needs the aggravation; last week it told Miramax that the studio could not distribute Kids, a scalding and graphic film about an HIV-positive teen. If Kids receives a proscriptive nc-17 rating, Miramax may be obliged to sell the film (with...