Word: disneyland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, Heritage USA was about as inspiring as Disneyland. Witnessing the thousands of sincere believers (a.k.a. naive rednecks) who filled this South Carolina Christian retreat, I was treated to a much better performance than watching the PTL Club...
...MODERN state makes order out of all things. Passion gives way to reason, chaos to structure. Play, to the extent there is such a thing, is to be regulated. Disneyland is the supreme expression of this ethic. In that pre-fabricated funland, the funhouse attendant can tell you exactly how long you will be waiting before you are allowed to enter. Even fun can be planned right down to the last second...
...Disneyland can be an enjoyable place to visit, but the spirit which guides Disneyland--that play can be managed--is an invidious one. It's also a philosophy beginning to hold such sway over the minds of officials of the state that more spontaneous displays of public enjoyment are starting to seem dangerous...
After graduating, Costner married his college sweetheart, Cindy Silva, a former Snow White at Disneyland and the only woman he had ever really dated. He also took a marketing job in Orange County. "It was a disgusting thing," he says. "I quit after 30 days. Cindy said to me, 'What are you going to do now?' 'Act!' I said. 'What else?' she asked. 'I'm working on a screenplay. I'm a writer,' I said. 'A writer!' she screamed. 'You can't even spell!' She cleared the table, and papers flew up in the air like in a cartoon...
...stuff? Well, I don't think he's funny. In fact, he's so unfunny . . . he's funny!" But the act was largely the one he had honed for years in other venues. He developed Happy Feet in his living room. He learned juggling from the court jester at Disneyland; Steve practiced at home with croquet balls and badly bruised his fingers. Or take the hat-with-the-arrow routine (please). "It was a thing we used to sell at Disneyland," Martin says. "It goes back to the theory, 'God, these gags are so dumb...