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EVER SINCE SIX FLAGS BEGAN RUNNING TV COMMERcials last year touting its theme parks over Disneyland, Disney chairman Michael Eisner has been steaming. He complained to Gerald Levin, chairman of Time Warner, which owns 50% of Six Flags. When the commercials kept running, Eisner pulled Disney's planned advertising (worth about $6 million) out of Time Inc. magazines. Six Flags refused to back down. A subsequent ad portrayed two dogs: a happy pup whose family had gone off for the day to visit Bugs Bunny at the local Six Flags park, and a lonely pooch whose owners had left town...
...best movie tradition, a self-effacing young man from a small, socialized country is being hailed up and down Santa Monica Boulevard by banners welcoming him to his new West Coast home. Call it Mr. Salonen Goes to Hollywood. Or maybe Esa-Pekka Does Disneyland. In four years the orchestra will move from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Music Center to the $114 million, Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall under construction nearby. Salonen's high-concept dream: "To conduct Bruckner in Walt Disney Hall -- a meeting of Bruckner and Donald Duck. Both were part of my tradition...
...attend their annual convention, which was held in Washington, because they carry the AIDS virus. Ironically, most of them had been infected by American blood products exported to their countries. Under current rules, even a child dying of AIDS could be barred from crossing the border to visit Disneyland. "Let them go to Disneyland in France," DeLay says. "You've got to be hard in situations like this...
...ILLUSION THAT YOUTH IS happy," said W. Somerset Maugham. "An illusion of those who have lost it." That illusion has been fading especially fast in one of the most prosperous and conservative corners of the country, home to the fantasy capital of America, Disneyland, and to a host of quieter fantasies as well. For residents of Orange County, California, the most perishable myth would seem to be that honor students, computer geniuses and star athletes would make headlines only for their remarkable achievements, never for their ruthless crimes...
...completes our entrancement. He has -- no kidding -- a vision of New York City, a nicely dislocating blend of charm and grunge. It's not quite real, not entirely fanciful. It is a child's-eye view of the place, full of glamorous shimmer and eerie shadows, a haunted Disneyland...