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...Farley Hackel, 46, who was meeting McCourt in Los Angeles but traveling separately on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the other tower. Hackel, a spiritual counselor, was heading to Los Angeles for a seminar with Deepak Chopra. McCourt was taking her daughter on a surprise trip to Disneyland...
...average and means the movie has to earn $400 million worldwide just to break even. But in Japan the company isn't only striving to turn a profit; it also wants to be sure it doesn't tarnish its name. Japan is a nation of Mickey Mouse fans. Tokyo Disneyland is the world's most popular theme park, and a sister site called Disney Sea is scheduled to open nearby in September. "Pearl Harbor is obviously a subject that must be approached with cultural sensitivity," says Dick Sano, who heads the Tokyo office of Buena Vista International, the Disney unit...
Disney is playing for high stakes. Japan is a nation of Mickey Mouse fans. Tokyo Disneyland is the world's most popular theme park, with 17 million visitors last year. Moreover, Japan is the world's second largest market for Hollywood films, and its moviegoers love action-packed adventures with romantic leads. They have contributed more than $200 million of Titanic's $1.8 billion global box office. But in Pearl Harbor, the villain isn't an iceberg--it's Japan. So Disney's marketing has had to be creative. "It's obviously a subject that must be approached with cultural...
...little scarier than we may be comfortable with. In June, Disney continued what's shaping up to be a less-than-stellar year by settling a lawsuit brought by Deborah Bynum, who claims she had a brain hemorrhage after a 1998 spin on the "Indiana Jones Adventure" ride at Disneyland. Last September, Brandon Zucker, now 5, suffered severe brain damage when he fell out of the Anaheim park's Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin...
...Accidents don't only happen at Disneyland, of course. Casualties around the country, including several serious brain injuries, have prompted safety advocates to urge national standards for amusement park rides. And some scientific studies have surfaced in recent months tracing subdural hematomas, or blood clots, to riding high-speed roller coasters. In June, 28-year-old Pearl Santos died of a ruptured brain aneurysm after riding the Goliath roller coaster at the Six Flags Magic Mountain park in Valencia, California...