Word: storyland
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...thrilled by a relatively new holiday event, Celebration in the Oaks, in City Park. Driving and walking tours lead guests by majestic oaks and lagoons adorned with 2 million tiny lights. The celebration features enormous puppets, a live Nativity scene, horse-drawn carriages and a miniature-train ride through Storyland amusement park...
...seems well in storyland, but even the best-laid plans of mice and men.... Gino accepts an important internship at Stanford but comes to realize that Nicky cannot take care of himself or cope with the California lifestyle. The appearance of Jennifer Reston, Gino's love interest (Jamie Lee Curtis), complicates matters. Egged on by a co-worker, Nicky begins to fear that Gino will leave him for Jennifer. A series of more serious problems then confront the pair, but finally, all is resolved, and the love between the brothers is renewed in an utterly predictable ending...
Then the bubble bursts. Pomme's husband becomes possessive and she is torn, wanting her baby and wanting her freedom. For a moment it seems Varda might be getting down to serious business, facing up to a problem common to contemporary women. But within the moment we return to storyland. Pomme proposes a solution to her husband: "Give me another child, that way we'll each have one." Such an extraordinary proposition is not out of place in this whimsical context of child-mothers and doll-babies. It is a viable solution in Varda's guilt-free world...
...have come full circle with the lion-burgers to be served at the proposed Bible Storyland. Now we are throwing the lions back to the Christians...
...Bible Storyland represents the vision mainly of Promoter Nat Winecoff, who cut his teeth at Disneyland, now humbly admits: "I guess the Lord just took me by the hand." The idea was originally suggested by a Roman Catholic priest who wanted an adjunct for his parish church, roughly in the $75,000 range. Winecoff outgrew the parish quickly. With private financing from such angels as Comedian Jack Haley and Donald F. Duncan, the parking-meter and Yo-Yo king, the project has now reached the $15 million stage. Promises Angel Haley: "Bible Storyland is not going to offend the sensibilities...