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The Advocate, Newark, 0., Wed. Dec. 24, 1986-Page 19 Amusements wood East Molly Disney, Universal plan Florida studios ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) The Orlando area is about to become Hollywood East the result of a hardball game of orie-upmanship between Universal Studios and the Walt Disney Co. 'By 1989 two major studio production-and-tourist complexes will be opening their doors to filmmakers and millions of paying customers hungering for tours behind the scenes.

MCA, the parent company of Universal, joined by Canada's Cineplex Odeon announced Dec. 9 that it wasn't going to let Disney's ongoing project interfere with its own. Disney began building a $300-million attraction last year, but MCA says it first devised such a plan in 1981. 3WCA President Sid Sheinberg wanted financial backing frpm Florida sources and didn't get it. So the project languished.

Two years ago, Sheinberg convinced Florida Gov. Bob Graham to support a proposal for a $150-million loan to be made from the Florida Retirement System Pension Fund. This was to be matched by MCA. jThat idea fell through, and the plans were again'put aside. jtfeanwhile, Michael Eisner became chairman of Disney and Frank Wells took over the company reins as president.

They ordered a study for such a project in Florida. After nothing came of MCA's plans, they moved boldly ahead. Sheinberg then said that Eisner had appropriated his idea. Eisner denied it. He and other Disney officials said it had long been considered.

Apparently still trying to dissuade Disney, Sheinberg said he didn't think the market could sustain two such attractions hi the same area. Disney's Eisner was emphatic: "We will not be intimidated," he said. both MCA and Disney are downplaying the rivalry. "I don't think two studios in Orlando would create a capacity problem," said Jay Stein, president of MCA's Recreation Services Group. "The studio activities should attract business from all over the United States." Stein added that Disney's project "looks very similar to what we had proposed in 1981." "We look to every new attraction that draws vacation and convention visitors to central Florida as an ally because it brings more people to the Orlando area in general and to Disney World in particular," the Disney company said in a prepared statement.

Other tourism officials were not as sure about the compatibility of the two projects. Tourism expert Abe Pizam of the University of Central Florida said he found it difficult to imagine how both could succeed. "I'd like to get my hands on the feasibility study, if there is one," he said. Universal Studios Florida expects to draw 6 million visitors a year when it opens to the public in 1989 on a 414-acre site five miles south of downtown Orlando. Studio production activities may begin in 1988.

Eventually, MCA officials said, their Florida complex will be surrounded by hotels, restaurants, motion picture theaters, a concert hall, office buildings and high-density residential housing. Disney's studio-tour, another dozen miles down the road, will be its third attraction, along with the Magic Kingdom and Epcot Center, at its vacation kingdom. It also will open to the public in 1989. Like MCA's studio, motion picture production also may start in 1988, Ridgway said. inavell Mi.

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Legends Streisand, Townshend sparkle in TV specials for a ticket to Barbra's big do at her place last Democrats for the Senate. A couple of politicians, like Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and Senate candidate Tom Coleman of who eventually lost, appear in cutaways, but the show avoids making any specific political pitch. Instead it concentrates more on a simple, straight-on view of the concert spiced with glimpses of pre-concert setup and arriving celebs, including Jack Nicholson, Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau and Chevy Chase. 5 BvKATHRYN BAKER 5 AP Television Writer jJEW YORK (AP) A couple of legends from different music worlds take to cable television over the holidays pop singer Barbra Streisand in an HBO taping of her first live performance in 20 years, and rock star Pete Townshend on Showtime in a rare television appearance.

Barbra Streisand For those who didn't have $5,000 to shell out this is. other singers such as Bette Midler, Sheena Easton and Whitney Houston tell us so in interviews on the way in. Messages "Streisand: One Voice," is a cozy, pleasant diversion, a holiday package of lovely music wrapped in a little trip to balmy Malibu on a winter night. Peter Townshend Over at Showtime, it's time to crank up the volume. "Pete Townshend's Deep End" made its debut last weekend and is repeated through mid-January, including airings on Christmas and this Sunday.

Occasionally guitar slashing like in the good old days with The Who, Townshend offers up classics from the '60s "Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday. Then I get on my knees and pray we won't get fooled again" and more recent solo hits like "Face the Face" that show why he's still around after all these years. September, Home Box Office offers a Christmas present. The 70-minute music special "Barbra Streisand: One Voice" will air Saturday and on 1 New Year's Eve. Streisand performed Sept.

6 at her estate in Malibu, before an invited audience of 500, mostly celebrities, to benefit anti-nuclear causes. The concert raised $1.5 million, which the Hollywood Women's Political Committee forwarded to the election campaigns of six Just to make sure we know what a Big Event Wednesday evening Murphy film glows HOLLYWOOD (AP) "The Golden Child" starring Eddie Murphy kept its glow at the box office, pulling in $7.9 million last weekend and proving it doesn't have lead feet despite unfavorable reviews. Second place went to "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," which moved up one spot with $5.8 million in ticket sales. The movie, flying at warp speed, has grossed $54.4 million in four weeks of release. The top seven films grossed more than $30 million last weekend, about 3 percent better than last year's leading movies.

Enterprise crew bumped "Three Amigos!" from second to third place. The comedy, starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short as silent film stars doubling as saviors of a Mexican town threatened by a Bandit, earned $4.3 million. Debuting in fourth place was "Little Shop of Horrors," a musical remake of the Roger Corman comedy about the relationship between a mousy shop clerk (Rick Moranis) and a man-eating plant. The film earned $3.65 million list weekend. Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge" fell one spot to fifth place with earnings of $3.5 million in its third weekend.

It has grossed $20.9 million so fir. "In sixth place was the reissue of Disney's animated "Lady and the "iramp," the love story of two dogs from different sides of the tracks. The flm earned $2.8 million its first weekend out. Australian import "'Crocodile' Dundee" has turned a "g'day" at the box office into 13 weeks of success. The movie, which dropped one spot to seventh place with $2.3 million in tickets last weekend, has grossed a total of $106 million.

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Then she proceeded to bug John about it for the next year. "She prayed for me when I was sick. She's spiritual in my book. Spiritual means you get down on your knees and say, 'God, I have a friend who needs help' and God listens. Religious is man-made; spiritual is God-given." And there's another special friend former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal.

The two met years ago at a golf tournament and became best friends. It was Royal who encouraged him to seek help for his drug dependency, met him in Fort Worth on a December day two years ago and accompanied him to the California hospital. into drugs, but quit in deference to him two years ago. Some even tried to straighten him out as his dependency began affecting his performance in 1984. There was the time he mooned an orchestra on stage; the time he went five days without sleep, so high on drugs he didn't know whether it was day or night.

"I thought everything was just fine," Gatlin recalled. "You don't realize that what you're doing is absolutely bizarre." Gatlin, 38, and his brothers, Steve, 35, and Rudy, 34, began singing as preschoolers in the mid-1950s, drawing 10 cents a week on a Sunday morning radio program in Abilene, Texas. Gatlin credits the prayers and caring of some special friends with turning his life around. There's also his wife of 17 years, Janis. "I put her through hell on Earth.

I wounded her a lot of times. But she stuck by me, prayed for me." There's daughter Kristin, 14, and son, Joshua Cash Gatlin, 10, the namesake of a special couple in Gatlin's life. During their recent Caesars Palace engagement, the Gatlins shared billing with Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. They also share a very special MMA. it To Breslin, every word, every sentence he writes is what marble was to Michelangelo, something to be sculpted with love and care.

the nuder think he writes his columns as Central Ohio VCR Service easily as he spills drinks in a bar." -Miduel (Weill free estimates-most service overnight 31 N. 4th Newark 345-6424 LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) Larry Gatlin shuddered as he recalled the night two years ago when he crawled around a Dallas hotel room picking up lint, hoping to find pieces of free-based cocaine that might have spilled. He and the Gatlin Brothers had rocketed to the top of the country-wKstern world with Grammy-winning hits, but the accompanying fame and fortune was taking its toll. Dec.

9, 1984, he checked into an Orange County, Calif, hospital to con-fcont a drug dependency problem. "I was a sick puppy," he said, stretching his legs in a poolside booth as neon lights began to flicker along the nearby Las Vegas Strip. was crawling around the floor of a Dallas hotel room, picking up lint, hoping it was free-basing we had dropped, putting it back in a pipe. It looks like gum or lint. We were so loaded I couldn't tell the difference.

was zonked," he recalled. "I was absolutely insane. We spent every penny we had. Five of us walked into that room with $2,000 or $3,000. When we crawled out the next morning, nobody had a dime.

We'd been to every drug dealer in Dallas, Texas, we could find. It gives me the shakes to think about it." Gatlins gained national attention id 1976 with their Grammy-winning "proken Lady," followed by their hit single, "All the Gold in California," in 1979. Other hits have included "Houston (I'm One Day.Closer to You)," "The Lady Takes the Cowboy Everytime" and this summer's release, "She Used to Be Somebody's Baby," which climbed to No. 2 on the charts. "Talkin to the Moon," also from the LP "Partners," was released in early December.

Gatlin took his first cocaine 10 years ago in the dressing room of a Strip resort. "Before long, the tail started wagging the dog and I was addicted to the stuff, physically and mentally," he recalled. "It's insidious. It's the only disease that tells you you don't have a disease." With a new start and a new perspective, Gatlin worries about the impact of drugs on America. "This country is awash in drugs," he said.

"Everywhere you turn, it's incredible. The country is drowning in its own ignorance. If we don't immediately begin to educate our kids and adults as well to the evils of alcohol and drug abuse it's going to overtake us." Gatlin been straight for some 700 days, "by the grace of God, one day at atime." 'Some members of his band were also Mike Royko Mike Royko is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Charge your classified ad or your Advocate subscription to your VISA or MASTERCARD! Cal the classified advertising department for details! 345-4053 And Jack Anderson Jack Anderson has the AUTHORITY: His experience includes more than three decades of expose's on major scandals and cover-ups. Jack Anderson has the ACCESS: His breadth, depth and speed have made htm a living legend in the world of journalism.

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