Displaced Disney.It's not exactly the happiest place on Earth -- or the most convenient. But if you want to see "Fantasia/2000," Disney's much-bally-hooed sequel to the 1940 animated classic, be prepared to step off the beaten path. The movie, which is formatted for Imax theaters, is screening at only a single venue in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- a temporary theater on Howard Hughes Parkway off the San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. (405) Freeway north of LAX. The theater is situated between the on-ramps to the freeway, forcing patrons arriving from the south to drive past the building, make a U-turn and then leave their cars with a valet at the curb. The valet parking valet parking n. Parking arrangements provided by a commercial establishment, such as a restaurant, whereby patrons leave their cars at the entrance and attendants park and retrieve them. Noun 1. area is located in a structure that's still under construction. Disney had to settle for the site after trying to make a deal to screen the film at the Imax theater at the California Science Center The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State . But the center balked balk v. balked, balk·ing, balks v.intr. 1. To stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump. 2. at Disney's insistence that "Fantasia/2000" be the only movie shown there for four months. So Disney built the temporary venue instead. "There was no other facility in L.A. that could handle the production," a Disney spokesman said. "We were determined to have a presence in L.A." |
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