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...reaffirm the differences between the Lampoon's Carnival and other commercial carnivals such as Disney World, Ehasz and his staffabandoned the pretentious patterns of celebrationcharacteristic of the last few years and insteadfilled the street with Coco the Monkey, clowns,singers, psychics and belly dancers. "These arenot famous people, never superstars, but they areall great, " added John J. Abbott, Jr. '96, Ibis."You don't pay them 10 bucks to see their show.You just walk down Mt. Auburn, and boom, you getentertainment from them...
...course) last month. Solomon, who separated from his first wife in 1993, has said in the past that he and the Olympic skating medalist drew closer after she was clubbed on the leg in January 1994. Wedding details are still unclear, but afterward they're probably not going to Disney World...
...want to control your creative product, you have to also control all its downstream commerce--as Disney does, building The Lion King into a $300 million North American box-office hit, then topping that with $450 million in only two weeks of Lion King video sales. And the hit album and toys and theme-park tie-ins. S, K and G don't have their own theme park in mind just now (for which Disney and Universal must be grateful), but they have big entrepreneurial eyes, and peripheral vision for all those ancillary markets...
...years, until their rancorous divorce last summer after Eisner refused to name Katzenberg his second in command. Now the lads must come of age--be ready to play daddy, not dutiful son, and do their own mentoring. The bet here is yes. Katzenberg was a paternal nudge to the Disney animators. Spielberg has nurtured the careers of director Robert Zemeckis and Amblin exec Kathleen Kennedy, now an independent producer...
...that wisdom, Katzenberg was getting ready to release The Lion King, and even then, before the $315 million rolled in (not to mention the record $450 million in home-video sales it has racked up in the past two weeks), it didn't look like a high-stakes gamble; Disney animation has been a sure thing ever since Beauty and the Beast. At the same time, Spielberg was preparing to send forth The Flintstones (domestic gross: $135 million), and that was a pretty sure thing too. Lesser men than he had observed that the boomer market was about to turn...