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...core of Las Vegas. "There will never come a day when ((potential visitors)) say, 'Should it be Orlando or should it be Las Vegas?' Those are two different moods. We think of our vacation in more romantic, personal terms. We're looking for sensual, extended gratification." In other words, Disney World is about tightly scripted smile-button fun for the kids; Las Vegas, despite the new theme-park accessories, remains the epicenter of the American id, still desperate to overpay schmaltzy superstars like Barbra Streisand, still focused on the darker stirrings of chance and liquor...
...casting of Williams as an unemployed voice-over artist is obviously meant to draw on the publicity he gained as the voice of the Genie in Disney's "Aladdin." In deciding on a persona for the housekeeping job Miranda advertises, he and his make up-wizard brother (Harvey Fierstein) run through a list of accents and outfits in a ridiculous procession a la "Aladdin" 's "Friend Like Me." After ranging from a Russian babushka to Barbra Streisand, he settles down as the matronly, English accented Euphegenia Doubtfire, and the movie's triumph is that Williams is convincing in this role...
...reaching as far as South America and sub-Saharan Africa. All the major record companies have Latin offices in Miami, and dozens of Spanish-language magazines are based there. General Motors, Latin America's No. 2 automaker, moved its Latin headquarters from Sao Paulo to Miami two years ago. Disney moved its Latin American consumer-products office from Mexico City; Inter-Continental Hotels moved its base for the Americas down from New York; and Iberia Airlines left Los Angeles. Miami's success has been its ability to use its immigrant population to offer American products and business savvy...
...Walt Disney World is concerned, Michael Jackson is still a hot film property -- his movie Captain EO "continues to be one of our most popular attractions," says a spokesman. Several months ago, however, the star felt decidedly fragile discussing his film career at a dinner with some of Hollywood's biggest players: according to reports last week, Jackson at one point inexplicably laid his head down on the table and began to cry uncontrollably. Maybe he was thinking of the films he already has in development at various studios, including Columbia Pictures, corporate sibling of his record company. Here they...
...first time since Michael Eisner became chairman a decade ago, the Walt Disney Co. reported a quarterly loss. The $77.8 million in red ink was attributable to Euro Disney, which has lost nearly $1 billion in its first fiscal year. Not that the experience has driven Disney to swear off theme parks. In Manassas, Virginia, Disney announced plans to build an American- history theme park near there...