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...Walt Disney himself had the original idea for a Disneyfied utopia, built under a giant dome, where residents would be whooshed from skyscraper to skyscraper on a high-speed monorail. As Walt envisioned it, no retirees would be allowed to live in his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and nobody could own property. It was to be a paradise of young renters, a notion that surely would have been vigorously opposed by the senior-citizen lobby. But Disney died in 1966, before the plans were drawn...
Somewhere along the line, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow got turned into the epcot theme park, where people could visit the future, but only from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Walt's idea of a utopia with residents was put on hold for a quarter of a century. Only then did the Disney Co., realizing it had more acres than it would ever need for theme parks, put the dream town back on the drawing board...
...dream town of the 1990s doesn't need Walt's domes, skyscrapers or monorails. By offering good schools, clean streets and grass around the edges, Disney is creating a fantasy world so far removed from common experience that people are amazed at the prospect...
...Walt Whitman said, "I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name." Thanksgiving is one of those signed letters. Anyone can open it and see what it says...
Once the news spread, so did a lot of other people. When the acquisition is complete, Time Warner will regain its rank as the world's largest media company, ahead of the newly combined Walt Disney and Capital Cities/ABC. "This is far and away the dream deal," boasts Levin, who called the merger with Turner "a sublime combination." The deal brings together a vast collection of brand names in Time Warner's movie, music and publishing divisions (including TIME magazine) and Turner's cable and TV news operations...