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Hong Kong Disneyland is taking the Walt Disney Co. to a new place: the wonderful world of China. The $3.6 billion park, scheduled to open Sept. 12, is Disney's boldest attempt to make Mickey Mouse as well known as Chairman Mao in the burgeoning Chinese market. With 1.3 billion increasingly wealthy people--290 million of them under 14, Disney's prime audience--China is the Magic Kingdom for a consumer company, and Disney wants to sell them everything from Mickey Mouse toys to animated movies to kids' magazines. "We know we have an addressable market just crying...
...your story on Mickey Mouse taking up residence in a French Disneyland [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Dec. 30], you say, "While anti-Americanism has swelled up in other areas of French life, no one ever seemed to have anything against Mickey Mouse." I have been involved in Franco-American relations for years and have never seen French and Americans, from tourists to government officials, from cultural leaders to businessmen, so much on the same wavelength. Edmund van Gilder Consul General of the U.S. Marseilles...
...mistake in choosing the Marne-la-Vallée for the company's first European Disney theme park. Bad weather in that region will keep this amusement park closed at least four months a year. My prediction: Eisner will lose "his" $1.8 billion and will be forced to pack Mickey's bags and run to Spain begging forgiveness. Anthony Mantykowsky Carrouges, France...
...Handle. In 1984, three days before British Director Adrian Lyne (Flash-dance) was scheduled to start 9½ Weeks, its original backer, Tri-Star Pictures, decided to pass. Eventually, MGM/UA took a chance, despite rumors that some kinky scenes of the obsessive love affair between Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke would mean an X rating. But last week word came that 9½ Weeks will hit theaters in February. Will the final edited R version live up to the flick's overheated reputation? Well, it seems that Lyne's cooler instincts prevailed. "I wasn't anxious to make an art film...
...became the phantom of the Royals Stadium training room. Whenever the team was gone, he was there tormenting his patellar tendon, the worst "ball of spaghetti" his doctors had ever restrung. "Occasionally he'd call me up and say, 'I didn't go to the park today,'" smiles Mickey Cobb, the trainer, "but I knew by looking at the room that he went every day." A small, bald man of 44, Cobb began life at 2 lbs. in rural Georgia, polio-ridden and without benefit of physician. He started limping at four. "I couldn't play when my friends were...