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...spirit of the place, Universal and Disney studios also double as playgrounds where tourists can experience "real" versions of screen phantasms. Universal offers a bumpy encounter with a robotic King Kong, whose breath is banana scented. Not to be outdone, Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park has created participation shows like the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, where visitors pretend to be extras along with actors who pretend to be extras on sets that pretend to be sets...
...Kelley's account, a cold and uncaring parent, a manipulative social climber and an acquisitive arriviste -- who was nonetheless so cheap that she would recycle old gifts and send them to friends. In her Hollywood days, the book contends, Nancy Davis got parts because she was sleeping with MGM's head of casting. In Washington she was a ruthless Marie Antoinette who was the real power behind the President. She rejected her natural father, spied on her kids and lied about her age. In short, she was the Wicked Witch of the West and East coasts. "Believe...
...Disney expects to spend an additional $3 billion to build a convention center, a second golf course and several more hotels with 13,000 rooms. The company also plans a Disney-MGM movie studio and possibly a European science park like Florida's Epcot Center...
...Panther films and the James Bond films -- too cheaply. In January a court in Italy upheld an old conviction for fraudulent bankruptcy that Parretti has been fighting for nearly a year. The entrepreneur has also been shamed in Hollywood's most public court, the box office. All the films MGM has released since the acquisition (including Rocky V, Not Without My Daughter and Desperate Hours) have been disappointments or outright flops...
Counting Parretti out would be a mistake. After all, he bought MGM from Kirk Kerkorian for $1.4 billion despite deafening gossip that he would never come up with the dough. He has a long history of being dismissed and then, as an MGM insider puts it, "pulling a rabbit -- even a roaring lion...