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Universal Studios Florida announced a $3 billion expansion of its Orlando theme park, 12 miles from Walt Disney World. The new venture will feature a Jurassic Park ride and other Spielbergian creations...
...last week it was also a good deal more real. The city announced it would pony up $35 million to acquire the last private buildings on the block (since 1990, $185 million has been spent buying up all the others), and officials confirmed that the Walt Disney Co. is all but recruited to renovate and stage live performances in the New Amsterdam Theater, the grand Art Nouveau landmark where Ziegfeld had his Follies. "It is the deal that we all dreamed about," says one of the project's masterminds. "When somebody like ((Disney chairman)) Michael Eisner comes in, everybody follows...
...fortuitously, for the real estate crash to kill it last year. Because the developers still dream of building their high-rises around the turn of the century, they have acceded to the new vision for 42nd Street grudgingly, and insist that it is only a temporary recasting. But if Disney and other entertainment big boys become entrenched, if cash flows are positive, and if Americans fall in love with a reanimated 42nd Street, will New York permit dreary office hives to come in and spoil...
Arquette, in great shape these days, radiates the strain of a desperate coquette. Anderson, with all the charisma of the guys you knew back in shop class, is an ideal stud-schlemiel. But this is Lithgow's spotlight. His shambling gait and open shirt give him the look of Disney's Brer Bear. But Mills is a slyer oaf, muttering obscenities and worn wisdom, capable of evil . and love; Lithgow's dilapidated face tells you both are curses. He knows that noir is a chase with death at the end, and he makes it a hell of a ride...
...KNBC-TV. "It was a big bed." In his TV interview with Oprah Winfrey last February, when asked what he missed in his own childhood, Jackson said, "Slumber parties." He had them with the 13-year-old who made the allegations; indeed, Jackson traveled to Monte Carlo and Walt Disney World with that boy, his half-sister and his mother and, according to the complaint, slept with the boy. Reports indicate that the boy told his therapist that in Monaco Jackson had told him masturbation was "a wonderful thing," lured him into a bathtub and performed oral...