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...shortage of enchantment is beleaguering the Magic Kingdom. Annual profits of Walt Disney Productions have fallen 30% since 1980, when it earned $135 million. Disney has failed to charm audiences with films like Tron, a write-off of $10 million. Even its fantasy lands have lost some of their drawing power. During the first quarter of fiscal 1984, attendance at Florida's Walt Disney World fell 8% from the previous year...
...Disney's troubles have kept its stock price low enough that some Wall Streeters believe the company (1983 revenues: $1.3 billion) could soon be a takeover target. Last week Reliance Financial Services, a company headed by New York Financier Saul Steinberg, announced that it had quietly bought a 6.3% stake in Disney. Reliance described its move as simply an investment, but some observers think Steinberg may try to gain control of Disney by teaming up with other large buyers of its stock...
...classic that starred Judy Garland. Based upon three of the books by Oz Creator L. Frank Baum, the $20 million "live-action adventure fantasy" promises to be something of a Star Woz, with veterans of that more modern epic creating special effects and producing the movie for Walt Disney. ("Toto, I really don't think we're in Kansas any more.") Dorothy will be played by Fairuza Balk, 9, a Vancouver schoolgirl who emigrated to Canada from her native California. There will be a host of new characters, including Tik Tok the robot and Billina the talking...
...vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia (see following story). The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken often about doing a movie musical of Peter Pan. The parallels are as obvious as they are misleading...
...affecting of late. Whatever their significance may be to Michael, gloves neatly, wittily?and, one hopes, consciously?deflect seriousness and reflect two of Michael's most publicized obsessions. A glove, even one with 1,200 rhinestones, suits Astaire-style topper and tails; it is also standard issue for many Disney cartoon characters...