Disney refuses to step down

By Azad January 3, 2000 7:25 AM

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It looks like Disney is still trying to fullfill the greedy fantasy of showcasing their Imax feature, "Fantasia/2000" for a four month monopolizing period in Imax theatres.?And of course, the theatres refuse to do so, because a four month period of only ONE movie playing in ALL screens would bore the crowd to tears after awhile.?So what's Disney going to do about it? Rebuffed by operators of the only Imax theater in central Los Angeles, Disney is taking the extraordinary step of building a temporary theater to showcase "Fantasia/2000." The new theater, a steel and fiberglass tent constructed at a cost approaching $4 million, opened on New Year's Day in West Los Angeles, off the 405 Freeway near Howard Hughes Parkway.?The theater includes 622 stadium-style seats, a 12,000-watt digital sound system and a 56-foot-tall, 80-foot-wide screen that builders say is as large as any Imax screen in Southern California.?But the theater's most impressive feature is its short life span: The entire facility will be broken down and cleared away just four months after it opens. I suppose if you had that much money, you can get away with pretty much anything.?Read more.

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Posted by cmaraschino (cliff@DO-NOT-SPAM-ME.justcreated.com) on January 3, 2000 10:41 PM

1.) There is a rumor going around that there will be a temporary Krispy Kreme Donuts shop at the same location as the temporary IMAX theatre in Westchester (405@Howard Hughes Parkway). 

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Posted by cmaraschino (cliff@DO-NOT-SPAM-ME.justcreated.com) on January 3, 2000 10:47 PM

For all of those people who live in Westchester and all of my favorite undergrads at Loyola Marymount University, BE WARNED:

There is no LEGAL entrance from Sepulveda and Howard Hughes Parkway. YOU WILL be ticketed if you try to make a U-TURN from the 405 South entrance on Howard Hughes Parkway. People in Westchester will have to take Jefferson to the 405 South and exit Howard Hughes Parkway *OR* People in Westchester will have to take Manchester to 405 North and exit Howard Hughes Parkway. 

Learn from my mistake. 

Cliff
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