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...Disney company hopes to follow its Tracy flick with a new musical version of the classic comic strip. Oscar-winning screenwriter Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) will pen the script...
Steven Spielberg wants to be Walt Disney. Jay Stein wants to get even with the Walt Disney Co. So the movie director, who in the past decade has created a boutique industry of family films in the grand old Disney tradition, and the president of MCA's recreation division, who believes his idea for a movie- studio theme park was filched by Disney Chairman Michael Eisner a decade ago, were just the fellows to devise Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, ten miles up the road from omnipotent Walt Disney World...
...they will come." That rallying cry, from Universal's hit film Field of Dreams, embodies the sentiment that inspired Stein and MCA to develop 444 acres of snake-infested swamp into the largest U.S. moviemaking complex outside Hollywood and a handsome leisure world nearly twice the size of rival Disney-MGM Studios. With a partner, Britain's Rank Organization, and $640 million worth of muscle and imagination, MCA was ready to pose a serious challenge to Disney, on its own terms, for the hearts, minds and discretionary income of the 13 million tourists who visit Central Florida each year...
...delays were one more obstacle in Stein's Sisyphean journey to realize his dream park. He had first proposed the idea two decades ago. In 1980 he pitched a partnership to Paramount, where Eisner was president before taking over Disney. (Eisner says he was not at the meeting.) Last year Cineplex Odeon backed out as co-sponsor. And still Stein pursued his vision, like the Jaws shark searching for fresh kill. In the weeks before the opening, he walked dozens of journalists through the unfinished attractions. So beguiling was Stein's spiel that some reporters obligingly described the experience...
...what do you want for $30.74? And what, eventually, will you get? An anti- Disney World, as far removed in spirit from the Magic Kingdom as gray (the dominant color) is from glitz. Both parks have strolling characters, but instead of Mickey and Minnie, Universal has Frankenstein, Marilyn Monroe, Beetlejuice. Both places will sell you plenty of food, but Universal's is spicier, tastier, more sophisticated. In movie-ratings terms, Disney's rides are G (for Gentle), Universal's PG (for Pretty Grisly...