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...used to permeate the block, a calling card for its unwholesome diversions. If all goes according to plan, their place will be taken by, among many other things, the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (a new megatheater for musicals combining two of the street's original stages), vast multiplex movie theaters and more tourist lures like Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum...
...stand in line outside a Santa Monica multiplex on a Monday afternoon waiting to see The First Wives Club is to see women climbing the movie Stairmaster and getting someplace. The queue is long and homogeneous. Nearly everyone is female; these are the ladies who lunch taking a movie aperitif. Inside, the audience laughs along with the gags about women's fear of aging ("If I give you one more face-lift," Dr. Rob Reiner warns Hawn, "you're gonna be able to blink your lips") that make the movie a more genteel version of the misogynistic She-Devil...
Movie stars who will do anything for love! And the audiences that encourage them! Next on Ricki Lake? No, right now at the Stygian Acres multiplex...
Others are following the same script. DreamWorks--the fledgling entertainment company founded by Steven Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and former Disney studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg--originally planned to release three films in 1996 and five in 1997. But don't go running to the multiplex: DreamWorks has put only one film in production. "It's a very, very crowded marketplace, where films are going to be pushed out of theaters," Geffen says. "It's sane to make fewer films...
MAGIC JOHNSON, multiplex mogul, investor and sometime coach, is coming back to basketball. Maybe. Rumors of Johnson's return have been rebounding since he retired in 1991. But this time the omens are promising. Johnson has talked to the nba and practiced with the Lakers over the past two weeks. As long as Magic transfers his 5% share of the team to someone else, the nba would have no objections. Nor, oddly enough, would Lakers coach Del Harris. The call rests with Johnson, who is not about to spill any beans: "Let's just say I haven't decided...