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...people from the Walt Disney Co. Children everywhere know Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and the dozens of other goofy characters that make up the Disney pantheon. With a meticulosity that is a hallmark of their success, Disney executives protect and promote their patented image. But as construction proceeds on Euro Disneyland, which is scheduled to open outside Paris next spring, the French have begun to ask themselves how the presence of Disney's irresistibly American village will affect French culture. Many fear that the theme park will corrupt France's prized national identity by creating what one Parisian theater director...
...result, Mickey and Donald are developing French accents. Paris, for example, is lobbying for French names on attractions and rides, "pommes frites" instead of "French fries" on restaurant menus. Thus the centerpiece of every Disney park -- the fairy tale castle -- will be known at Euro Disneyland as Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant (although a hot dog will still...
...skirmishes are instructive examples of the resistance that American pop culture meets from intellectuals in some of the countries where it is consumed most avidly by mass audiences, but in the overall scheme of things, they are minor. Euro Disneyland is a $4.2 billion project, now nearly six years in the making. No one doubts that Mickey Mouse and his clan will claim their new home on the Continent, probably close to the April 1992 target date. Disney executives predict 11 million visits a year to the theme park, which is being built on former beet and sunflower fields...
...latest venture, Disney is orchestrating its usual mix of hoopla and down-home family fun. Euro Disneyland will feature an amusement park with 29 attractions, and six hotels with 5,200 rooms designed by such top architects as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. There will also be a 138-acre Davy Crockett campground and an 18-hole golf course, not to mention 150,000 trees sprinkled over the Disneyscape. Construction is more than halfway along. Among the park's highlights: a 60-ft.-high Swiss Family Tree House and Disney's trademark Big Thunder Mountain, a roller-coaster ride...
They used to say that Dunster House was where "geek meets chic." Nowadays, the extremes have been toned down: there are still geeks, but they're somehow less geeky. And Dunster's once-infamous crowd of the Euro-chic has magically been transformed into a forceful contingent of the radical chic. Yes, Dunsterites tend to be very liberal and frequently artistically-inclined, but thankfully, they lack the smoky snobbiness that characterizes their Adams House cousins...