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Successful surgery has been performed on Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner, pitcher Jeff Sellers and first-base coach Walt Hriniak, the club said Thursday...
...Ghermezians were looking for ways to lure retail shoppers in a thinly populated region where the winters are long and temperatures often dip to -40 degreesF. Much of their concept is blatantly borrowed from Disneyland -- right down to the name of their amusement park, which they have dubbed Fantasyland. (Walt Disney Productions is suing over use of that name.) But the Ghermezians view the delights of their pleasure dome unsentimentally. "We do not make money on the entertainment," says Eskandar, fortyish, one of the less secretive of the brothers. "We make money on the retail sales...
...worked as an assistant to legendary showman Walt Disney, eventually working his way up to director of entertainment at Disney. After 12 years at Disney, he founded his own independent production company, quickly becoming known for his ability to provide live-entertainment spectaculars that worked like clockwork. Earlier this year Tommy Walker Productions was bought out by Radio City Music Hall...
...Rutger Fury, and take part in the Great Lemming Run to Disney World with the rest of the American press establishment. Apparently there was to be a big party celebrating the 15th year of the Magic Kingdom and the 200th of the U.S. Constitution--in that order, presumably--and Walt was covering all the bills...
...dessert is not very nourishing. Captain EO is sugar but no spice, coating an audio-animatronic gridwork. What can be exhilarating and depressing about Walt Disney World is true of Captain EO: it is a triumph of the artificial, of high-tech wizardry and secondhand emotions. All of which makes EO just fine as a "total three-dimensional experience" but only the fourthbest film at Epcot. In the travelogues of China and France, and in Emil Radok's enthralling documentary about, yes, energy, the imagination is served, not dominated, by the special effects. These films evoke intense feelings for people...