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This arrogance, if such it is, flows from the challenge Disney believes it can uniquely meet: to entertain everyone, of every age, from every land. Walt Disney proved that this was possible with his first cartoon features and his first theme park. To aim for every taste is to sacrifice tang -- the movies and parks can lack edge; the thrills may be as flat as the main courses in some of the specialty restaurants. But it is a noble goal, beyond commerce or compromise -- especially today, in an age when every form of pop culture has at least as many...
...parade since 1884. Conductors: Michael Eisner, Frank Wells. We work, while you whistle." In fact, Eisner, Disney's CEO, and Wells, the company's president, have headed the procession only since 1984, when they turned Mickey's mausoleum -- a slumbering empire of tranquil theme parks and tepid movies -- into Walt II. Or, rather, Walt 2, for Disney has expanded exponentially, its ambition and energy personified by the two bosses. At 4 a.m. one day last week, each man could be seen wandering the park like a parent wrapping a beautiful new toy for his child on Christmas Eve, or like...
...Walt Disney World in Orlando is a theme park with hotels attached. Euro Disney is the reverse: a spectacular sprawl that confirms the company as a premier force in modern architecture. A decade ago, as architects began to shrug off their Modernist doldrums, they saw in Disney's park designs an attractive blend of wit, glamour and function. Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan...
...might have said on seeing Disneyland, Walt is in the details. The spirit of Walt hovers over Euro Disney too. Mice with sewing needles and birds holding ribbons in their beaks adorn the capitals in l'Auberge de Cendrillon, the park's only French restaurant (try the dessert they call Cinderella's Slipper: chocolate mousse in a white-chocolate shoe mold). Dumbo snouts serve as the spouts for fresh water in man-made Lake Buena Vista. At the Hotel Cheyenne's Chuckwagon Cafe, which has antlers in all of its decorating, plastic horseshoes hold the condiments, and nailed...
After seeing Walt Disney's Mary Poppins for the first time, every American child between the ages of three and ten wants a nanny. Someone who doesn't need public transportation because she had her umbrella. Someone who hangs out with chimney sweeps. Someone who breaks into song every five minutes. Someone, in other words, who is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...