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Honey, load the Winnebago! Proprietors hope the gargantuan Mall of America, opening in Bloomington, Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
James presents white racism as equally laughable in a scene in which Walt Disney calls for the extermination of Blacks. Disney's gruesome speech combines echoes of Pinocchio, Martin Luther King Jr. and the KKK: "I wished upon a star--that one day wondrous shopping mall, beneath the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slave owners would dine on the sons of former salves, secure in the knowledge that their silverware was safe from theft...
Studio boss Jeffrey Katzenberg has promised his new producers total artistic freedom. In Hollywood, though, where Disney is notorious for tinkering with every aspect of production, cynics wondered when the honeymoon would sour. And what films might the Merchant Ivory team make for Disney? The Importance of Being Ernest Scared Stupid? Three Men and a Portrait of a Lady? Howard the Duck...
...deal made sense from two angles: quality and quantity. Katzenberg, / who thinks today's movies are worse than ever, was truly touched by the art and heart of Howards End. He also knows that Disney, like any big studio, needs product, and Merchant Ivory is the most prolific of boutique moviemakers, producing over 30 films during their 30-year partnership...
Their first Disney venture, Jefferson in Paris, will be out next year. If the role of Thomas Jefferson is given to, say, Merchant Ivory veteran Christopher Reeve and not, say, Pauly Shore, even Hollywood insiders will agree that this dangerous liaison could also be the beginning of a beautiful marriage...