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The University Daily Kansan
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Monday, April 9, 2001
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet
Millionaire makes debut at theme park
ORLANDO, Fla. — Disney-MGM Studios is asking its visitors, "Who wants to be a millionaire?"
Well, maybe not a millionaire. How about the owner of a baseball cap with the game show's logo?
The Associated Press
The Disney theme park is opening an interactive version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Saturday with 10 shows a day on a set that looks like the real one in New York.
The game show, on Disney-owned ABC, has been a ratings juggernaut at the network. Although it has seen its audience decline by almost a third during the past year, it still holds three of the top 10 slots in prime time this season, said Marc Berman, an analyst for Media Week online.
"To take something that wasn't launched that long ago and put it in a theme park is kind of a risk," Berman said. Disney officials are confident it will be a success.
Despite the show's popularity, Berman says Disney is taking a chance by putting it in a theme park.
Each seat in the studio has its own key pad from which participants can answer the Regis stand-in's questions. A computer tabulates which audience member answers the question the quickest and that person gets to go to the "hot seat," where the host poses another set of questions.
"It continues to be a popular show," said Mike West, a senior producer at Walt Disney Imagineering, the company's creative arm. "Even if the TV show goes away, we feel we have a great attraction for our guests."
Adding to the authenticity, the show's host, Regis Philbin, was on hand Friday for a media preview.
An audience member with the quickest response can replace a person in the "hot seat" who misses an answer.
A person who reaches $1 million points wins a trip to New York to watch a taping of the TV show.
Unlike the show, there's no chance for winning big bucks here. The prizes are Millionaire baseball caps, CD-ROMs, pins and leather jackets.
Instead of calling a friend or celebrity "lifeline" to get advice on a question, like contestants do on the show, participants at the attraction can call a randomly chosen person in the theme park.
Phones are set up in two locations in the park and Disney workers will stop guests to ask them if they want to participate.
Crossword
ACROSS
ACHOSS
1 of the ball
Offer a recap
11 Cuisine, NM
14 Zooah ram
15 Japanese
metropolis
16 Starmard
17 Turner and Brown
18 Orbiter
20 Folk singer Pete
22 Piece of farm
equipment
23 Examples in context
27 Fork-tailed
seabird
28 Housecoat
29 iron hand
34 Cimbar and
galena
29 Reinforced
36 Ernie of the PGA
39 Worldly West
40 Collection of
crows
41 "Road to __"
42 Bar fly
43 Deer's kin
44 Up for the day
4A Aew
4Intensify
4H had down pat
50 One of the
beavers
52 Wear off course
54 Flamethrower
57 Obstructed by
sediment
61 Test subject
6Wander
66 Vessel with a
spigot
6T Tropical fruit
6T Tantalize
6D Droop
70 Fathers
71 Packing heat
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DOWN
1 Dugout stack
2 Southernmost Great Lake
3 Bit of dialogue
4 Associations of teams
5 Silalom turns
6 Call for help
7 "Born in the ___"
8 Cushion
9 Hawaiian guitars,
for short
10 Washed-out
11 Looked at
12 Following
13 Strict
14 Riga resident
15 Aquarium favorite
16 Rodent pets
17 A bird
18 Cache
19 Vatican's only
neighbor
20 Verbal
21 Hive
management
22 Carl and Rob
23 Wedding vow
24 Togo's capital
25 Pot meal
26 Apple computer
27 Old saying
28 Helter
Solutions to Friday's puzzle
48 View quickly
51 Abardeen breed
51 Mrs. Bush
53 Broad mental view
56 Stool parts
57 Lanai neighbor
58 Trolley car
59 Simplicity
60 Soaked in wood
61 Golf norm
63 "Got You
Under My Skin"
64 Ford fuel
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