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Harry Potter attraction to come with Universal Studios expansion
Goodbye Hogwarts, hello Universal Studios. After a bumpy 17-year process that once proposed developing thousands of homes on its famous Hollywood back lot, NBCUniversal won unanimous approval Tuesday from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors...
Tags: Jason Song, NBCUniversal, Fiction
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County supervisors to vote on NBCUniversal park expansion
Los Angeles County Supervisors are scheduled to vote Tuesday on zoning regulations that would allow NBCUniversal to expand its Hollywood theme park and add more movie and television production facilities. The company has proposed spending nearly $1.6...
Tags: Jason Song, NBCUniversal
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Disney unveils first image of Shanghai Disney Resort
Walt Disney Co. unveiled the first computer rendering of its Shanghai Disney Resort at the company's annual meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday morning. Disney Chairman and CEO Robert Iger told the gathering that the theme park would open at the end of...Tags: Travel, Robert A. Iger, The Walt Disney Co., Theme Park Vacations, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Universal Studios fire out at site of closed Terminator 2 ride
A two-alarm blaze reported at the closed Terminator 2: 3D ride at Universal Studios Hollywood has been mostly extinguished, park officials said. The fire was reported about 1:15 p.m. Several dozen firefighters responded to the fire to help protect other...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Andrew Blankstein, Fires
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Son of electrocuted Good Samaritan: Mother was 'always trying to help someone'
The son of a Burbank woman who was electrocuted Wednesday when she tried to save a crash victim in Valley Village called his mother a hero. David Aguilar, 21, said when he got a call about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday that his mother, Irma Zamora, had been...
Tags: Providence, Google+, Heroism, Los Angeles Fire Department
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NBCUniversal scraps plan to build housing on Universal back lot
NBCUniversal has dropped controversial plans to build thousands of residences on its famous back lot and hopes instead to add movie and television production facilities and expand the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park. The new $1.6-billion...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Tom LaBonge, Los Angeles Times, Roger Vincent, Tour Operations Industry
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Gabel-Luddy calls revised 'Evolution' plans 'very constructive'
Burbank Councilwoman Emily Gabel-Luddy called NBCUniversal’s announcement that it has dropped controversial plans to build thousands of residences on its back lot"very constructive," but said she still had concerns about the traffic impact. The new...
Tags: Evolution (movie), Zev Yaroslavsky, Google Inc., Tour Operations Industry, NBCUniversal
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NBC Universal calls 'cut' on housing plan
NBC Universal's announcement this week that it has dropped controversial plans to build thousands of residences on its famous back lot was praised by local and regional officials who feared the massive mixed-use project would overwhelm public facilities...
Tags: Traffic, Zev Yaroslavsky, Politics, Tom LaBonge, Television
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Ginny Tyler dies at 86; voice actress was Disney legend
When episodes of "The Mickey Mouse Club" were repackaged for syndication, a new head Mouseketeer held court from the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland in 1963. For a year, Ginny Tyler hosted new segments of the television show that were woven...
Tags: Bambi (movie), Disneyland Park, Los Angeles Times, Rex Harrison, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Schools offer a show-biz shortcut
On a quiet stretch of San Fernando Boulevard, a few blocks south of Downtown Burbank, bright red and black letters on a large poster call attention to a place where students learn as cameras roll. Inside, on a recent Wednesday evening, a small group of...
Tags: Cinema Industry, Google Inc., Animation (genre), Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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At Universal Studios, students get a crash course in filmmaking
A 12-year-old girl crouches into a corner in an alley, talking on a cellphone. The tone of her voice, her body language and her facial expressions convey distress. Nearby, another girl holds a boom microphone over her as other 10- to 13-year-olds look...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Teaching and Learning, Celebrities, Entertainment, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities)
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Friendship takes on a new meaning with dance number
A talented choreographer with his sights set on New York University, 15-year-old Kevin Zambrano has been blocking out dance numbers since the sixth grade. But the Burbank High School sophomore's work took on a new level of intensity this spring as he...
Tags: Human Interest, Music, New York University, Brain, Relay for Life
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