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...limited-run hits, including Driving Miss Daisy, The Heidi Chronicles and Falsettoland, have moved on to greater fame on larger stages. The latest gift, to Broadway, is this musical folktale about love and magic on a mythical Caribbean isle, with a calypso-flecked score that may remind some of Disney's The Little Mermaid...
...Pickup Lines ("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles (always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want; that phony British accent), and the Top 10 Least Popular Attractions at Disney World (Oprah Mountain; Peter Pan's All- Male Cinema; Muggyland). For connoisseurs, there's the very first list (Top 10 Words That Almost Rhyme with Peas); for doubters, a list on the back cover explaining the Top 10 Reasons to Buy This Book (No. 5: you're mentioned on page...
...amusement. MCA's Universal divisions have produced such blockbuster films as The Sting, Jaws, E.T. and Back to the Future, as well as such TV programs as Major Dad and Murder, She Wrote. Universal Studios Tour in California is the third most popular amusement park in the world, after Disney's two U.S. attractions. MCA Records is a hit factory with platinum stars that include Tom Petty, Bobby Brown and Fine Young Cannibals. In book publishing, the company owns G.P. Putnam's Sons, which has had best sellers with Tom Clancy's The Cardinal of the Kremlin...
...could have made a huge return shorting the stodgy Dow Jones average, which fell from 3000 to 2500 between July 17 and Aug. 23. But that was the least of it. Most stocks dropped much more than that. Boeing was down from 60 1/4 to 42 1/2. Disney was down from 131 1/4 to 95 1/8. Golden Nugget, from...
...rising cost of travel will inspire many people to spend their vacations at home instead of heading to places like Florida's Walt Disney World. "People are afraid," says Fred Wright, a Houston travel agent. "If travelers don't get the fares they want, they're not going." The jump in gas prices has forced Wright to change his own travel plans. He said he will make fewer trips to visit family members in Oklahoma City, a distance of 450 miles, because the price of a tank of gas has jumped from about $8 to $12. "It makes you think...