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...first glance there's little sign that anything unseemly could ever happen in this city. Little surprise, then, that a few years ago Spanish author Eduardo Mendoza called his novel about Barcelona "The City of Wonders." The city seems a more cheerful but more real version of Walt Disney World...
THERE WAS POP ART. AND OP ART. NOW comes the latest postmodernist art form: Stock Art. Michigan entrepreneur Lawrence Wilsher is offering the public single shares, appropriately framed, of the Walt Disney Co. He sells the certificates not for their face value but rather for their worth as actual works of art -- replete with Walt's visage and images of such classic Disney characters as Bambi, Dumbo and Mickey. Wilsher's mixing of art and finance earned the scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission, but the agency has confirmed that he does not have to register as a broker...
...Santa Monica Boulevard by banners welcoming him to his new West Coast home. Call it Mr. Salonen Goes to Hollywood. Or maybe Esa-Pekka Does Disneyland. In four years the orchestra will move from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Music Center to the $114 million, Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall under construction nearby. Salonen's high-concept dream: "To conduct Bruckner in Walt Disney Hall -- a meeting of Bruckner and Donald Duck. Both were part of my tradition. Both are immortal." And both speak a universal language, even if it isn't Finnish...
Last June 18, The New York times reported that after the post-Rodney King verdict riots in Los Angelles, the Walt Disney company committed itself to hiring 200 young people from poverty-stricken South-Central Los Angeles...
...Tele-Communications, Inc., the country's largest cable operator. In one swoop, television's fuzzy dreams of an interactive future had acquired both immediacy and show-biz cachet. "I'm only surprised at how stupid the rest of us were not to see it," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Walt Disney Studios. Jokes CBS president Howard Stringer: "Already he's scared the Sears catalog out of business...