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...demand for that type of skill has made the growing industry even more attractive to giant corporations, since they already have valuable experience in those fields. CBS, Walt Disney Productions, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. have all entered the software business within the past year. CBS and 20th Century-Fox are producing software for games, while Walt Disney makes educational programs. Dow Jones is turning out packages for stock-market analysis...
...save Walt Disney, matches the creativeness of George Lucas [May 23], the originator of the ceaseless wonders of the Star Wars universe. If anything is retained from Lucas' magical movies, it should be the concept that peace and good will always triumph...
...atmosphere of Walt Disney's nearby Fantasyland. In the dome-shaped main hall, robots caromed around the floor. Overhead, a single-engine plane circled, dragging a sign announcing COMPAQ IS HERE. At one booth, a man dressed up like the Red Baron demonstrated a program that enables a personal computer to accept voice commands. Apple Computer rented Disneyland for an evening to entertain 12,000 of its most intimate customers, employees and friends. For the more serious, discussions were held on topics like "Surviving Success-an Industry Dilemma...
Besides making money, the Star Wars pictures changed the way moviemakers look at film and created a new vision of ancient mythological themes that has deeply affected a whole generation of children. What Walt Disney was to the children of the '30s, '40s and '50s, Lucas is to those of the late '70s and '80s. "George has been able to hook into some very basic universal images," says Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote the Jedi script with him. "Tying into these images isn't always conscious, and part of George's gift...
...Tokyo park is making its debut during the 60th anniversary year of the founding of Walt Disney Studios, and at a time designated by the United Nations as World Communications Year. To the chairman of Oriental Land, affable Masatomo Takahashi, 69, that seems fitting. The park, says he, "should serve as another bridge for mutual understanding between the U.S. and Japan." And between the U.S. and all of Asia. Mickey Mouse is likely to be greeting folks from all over the Pacific basin, as tourists flock to Tokyo Bay. Like his U.S. counterparts, the Japanese Mickey is instructed never...