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Before construction on the EuroDisney project was even completed, the theme park had already been condemned as a "cultural Chernobyl." And the self-proclaimed cultural critics have apparently won: Disney's venture on the outskirts of Paris currently loses $1 million...
...content to hog the huge kids' home-video market, Disney wants to get families out to the theater. Beauty and the Beast opens on Broadway in April, and the company plans to renovate a Times Square movie house for stage shows. That seedy neighborhood was no place for a theme park...
...acknowledge the existence of gays? "We're not asking Hollywood to make Gone With the Wind or Jurassic Park. They don't have to bankrupt the company or defraud the stockholders. We're talking $10 million or $15 million -- less if you try hard. To Matsushita or Sony or Disney, $10 million is toilet-paper money...
...proceed into the fleecing pen. The MGM Grand has gone further: it spent hundreds of millions of | dollars extra to build an adjacent but entirely separate amusement park, cramming seven rides (three involving fake rivers) and eight "themed areas" onto 33 acres, less than a 10th the size of Disney World...
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: Tickets to a Bette Midler concert, Disney on Ice or a Sharks hockey game...