Jackie Siegel pronounced she antiquated Donald Trump.

He contingency have money.

Siegel is a mother of businessman David Siegel, who was featured in “Queen of Versailles,” a documentary about a integrate struggling to build a largest home in America. When asked if there was any law to a rumors she went out with Trump, she pronounced “kind of.”

“We usually went out a integrate times,” a former Miss Florida told The Huffington Post. “Like, he invited us to Mar-a-Lago and go to his parties and things like that. He’s a unequivocally good person. So many charisma. I’m so blissful that we’re still friends.”

But a dual are usually in a platonic attribute now. “Kind of. We’re friends … we’re still friends now.”

Lucky her.

The Siegels were perplexing to build a 90,000-square-foot mansion, modeled after France’s Palace of Versailles, that would be a largest single-family home in a United States. The documentary showed a struggles a integrate encountered to finish their home, and compensate for a work. David Siegel done his cache as a timeshare mogul, though a genuine estate pile-up in 2008 dejected his business.

Those bad abounding people.

Since David Siegel done a happening in genuine estate, it’s not unequivocally startling a integrate is friends with The Donald. It was not transparent either Jackie Siegel antiquated Trump before or after assembly David.

CARRIE FISHER PREPARING TO PLAY PRINCESS LEIA AGAIN: Carrie Fisher might be perplexing to

squeeze behind into a steel bikini after all.

The 56-year-old actress, who is apparently going to reprise her iconic Princess Leia purpose in a new “Star Wars” trilogy, is reportedly perplexing to slim down for a role.

“I’m blissful they are doing a new film given they are promulgation a tutor to my residence so we can get in unequivocally good shape,” she told a Calgary Herald. “So I’m unequivocally eating a lot of sugarine in advance, as we can see. By a time we unequivocally get down to it, we will have eaten everything.”

Uh … right.

Fisher also apparently likes being partial of a Disney family, given Disney bought LucasFilm final year and, with it, a rights to a “Star Wars” universe.

“I like being bought by Disney, given they never wanted to buy me before,” Fisher said.

It was usually a matter of time.

J-LO COMING BACK TO ‘AMERICAN IDOL’: Jennifer Lopez is really entrance behind to “American Idol!” … to perform.

Citing an unnamed source, E! News reported Wednesday that a former “Idol” decider will perform on subsequent month’s deteriorate finale.

No word nonetheless on either she’ll seem on a initial or second night of a two-part culmination on May 15-16.

Rumors began swirling final week not usually about a J-Lo performance, though a probability that she might be entrance behind as a judge, presumably replacing Mariah Carey.

“There will really be changes to a judging quarrel for subsequent season,” a source told E! News final week. “Fox suspicion a Nicki (Minaj)-Mariah contrariety would make for ratings, though there is regard it is like nails on a chalkboard for middle-America viewers.”

Good guess.

Of course, a repute for a uncover said, “This is usually another absurd ‘Idol’ decider rumor, expected started by talks of Jennifer behaving on a finale.”

Who would brave contend a difference “ridiculous” and “American Idol” in a same sentence?

An “Idol” repute declined to criticism on Lopez’s arriving performance.

LIL WAYNE HAS ANOTHER SEIZURE: Lil Wayne was hospitalized again for carrying a seizure, according to TMZ.

The rapper was taken to Cedars-Sinai Hospital late Tuesday night by his bodyguards, sources tighten to Wayne told a website. He was treated after pang a singular seizure. He spent a night during a sanatorium and was expelled Wednesday morning.

The 30-year-old spent a week during a sanatorium in March, including 6 days in complete care, after pang mixed serious seizures that reportedly scarcely killed him. Wayne after pronounced he’s an epileptic and has had seizures given he was a child. He tweeted late Wednesday morning that he was doing fine.

Lil Wayne is scheduled to play a Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord on Aug. 30.

JENNIFER ANISTON PUSHES BACK WEDDING BECAUSE OF BRAD PITT: Brad Pitt caused Jennifer Aniston to pull behind her wedding.

Well … arrange of.

According to Us Weekly, Aniston pushed behind her matrimony to Justin Theroux so it wouldn’t have any viewed overlie with a ostensible summer matrimony of Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Right. Now Jolie can be her lassie of honor.

“She does not wish her day compared with them,” an insider told a magazine. Upon training of Pitt’s plans, a 44-year-old Aniston primarily deliberate relocating her date adult and removing married first, though Theroux, 41, altered her mind. “Justin got weirded out by all a rushing,” a source said.

He got weirded out by all a rushing, though not a fact that he’s about to marry someone who is permitting a man she divorced 8 years ago to have that many change on what she does?

According to a insider, Aniston has put matrimony formulation totally on hold. “Nothing has happened on that front in a month,” a source said.

Aniston hasn’t accurately been sitting around regularly examination a DVD of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” She does finished sharpened a film and she and Theroux have been bustling redecorating their $21 million Bel Air mansion, that facilities 8,500 block feet, 4 bedrooms, six-and-a-half bathrooms, a swimming pool, and a possess vineyard.

That’s a lot of bathrooms. Someone contingency have bladder issues.

Taking a mangle could be a good thing.

“She has been fractious from this stress,” an insider told Us Weekly. “Justin’s never seen her like this.”

Wait until he’s been married for awhile.

Aniston and Theroux — who co-starred together in a film “Wanderlust” — got intent on a actor’s 41st birthday final August, after some-more than a year of dating.

The couple’s rendezvous came usually 4 months after Pitt strictly due to Jolie, with whom he has 6 kids. Aniston and Pitt were married from 2000 to 2005; he began a attribute with Jolie shortly after their split.

Contact Tony Hicks during Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.

MAY 2 IN HISTORY

Thursday is May 2, a 122nd day of 2013. There are 243 days left in a year.

1519: Artist Leonardo da Vinci died during Cloux, France, during age 67.

1863: During a Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was incidentally bleeding by his possess group during Chancellorsville, Va.; he died 8 days later.

1890: The Oklahoma Territory was organized.

1936: “Peter and a Wolf,” a sonorous story for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had a universe premiere in Moscow.

1945: The Soviet Union announced a tumble of Berlin, and a Allies announced a obey of Nazi infantry in Italy and tools of Austria.

1952: The epoch of blurb jet newcomer use began as a BOAC de Havilland Comet carrying 36 passengers took off on a multi-stop moody from London to Johannesburg, South Africa.

1957: Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., died during Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

1960: Caryl Chessman, who’d turn a best-selling author and means celebre while on genocide quarrel for kidnapping, rape and robbery, was executed during San Quentin Prison in California.

1963: The Children’s Crusade began in Birmingham, Ala., as some-more than 1,000 black schoolchildren skipped classes and marched downtown to criticism secular segregation; hundreds were arrested. (During another impetus a following day, authorities unleashed military dogs and glow hoses on a immature protesters.)

1972: A glow during a Sunshine china cave in Kellogg, Idaho, claimed a lives of 91 workers who succumbed to CO monoxide poisoning. Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died in Washington during age 77.

1982: The Weather Channel done a debut.

2003: A sovereign justice struck down many of a new debate financial law (popularly famous as “McCain-Feingold”), overturning a anathema on a use of vast corporate and kinship contributions by domestic parties. (However, after in a year, a U.S. Supreme Court inspected pivotal supplies of a act.)

2008: President George W. Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion ask to account U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into a following spring. Al-Jazeera TV cameraman Sami al-Haj was expelled from U.S. control in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and returned home to Sudan after 6 years of imprisonment. Tropical Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, heading to an contingent central genocide fee of 84,537, with 53,836 listed as missing. Mildred Loving, a black lady whose plea to Virginia’s anathema on interracial matrimony led to a landmark Supreme Court statute distinguished down such laws opposite a United States, died in Milford, Va., during age 68.

2011: Osama bin Laden was killed by chosen American army during his Pakistan compound, afterwards fast buried during sea after a decade on a run.

2012: Former NFL star Junior Seau was found shot to genocide during his home in Oceanside, Calif., a suicide. Jered Weaver pitched a second no-hitter in a majors in reduction than dual weeks, totally overmatching Minnesota and heading a Los Angeles Angels to a 9-0 win over a Twins.

BIRTHDAYS

Singer Engelbert Humperdinck (77), stone thespian Lou Gramm (Foreigner) (63), thespian Christine Baranski (61), nation thespian Ty Herndon (51), wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson (AKA The Rock) (41), soccer actor David Beckham (38), Olympic bullion award figure skater Sarah Hughes (28).

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If we don’t count brief RV getaways or quickie trips to Disneyland, we haven’t taken a genuine vacation in years. Most of a “vacations” have been prolonged weekends that revolved around conferences for work. Sure, those trips have taken us to places we’d never have visited differently — Santa Fe, New Orleans, Washington, D.C. — and some we’d never have suspicion to revisit — Cleveland, Bethesda, a state of Wisconsin.

Unfortunately, those trips weren’t relaxing since we had to dress easily and be somewhere on time to give a speak or do an event. If we managed to fist in a Swamp Tour in New Orleans, a Cheese Tasting in Wisconsin or a Mystery Hunt in Manhattan, we deliberate ourselves lucky. This year, we suspicion about returning to a common finish — Disneyland — until we saw a blurb on TV for a ideal trip: a Disney review in Hawaii!

We’ve never stayed in a review before. We tend to go “discount” on vacation and check into”bargain” hotels opposite a travel from a resorts. That approach we have only adequate income for entertainment park rides, H2O slides, Gothic dinners and Character Breakfasts.

But Disney’s Aulani Resort was only too tantalizing to pass up. Walt was charity unconstrained days filled with tide tubing for idle vacationers, H2O slides for daredevils, a dash park for a kiddies, a swimming pool for a whole family and even a “Hawaiian” (Disney-style) beach. Plus Character Breakfasts!

So throwing counsel to a

wind and income out a window, we requisitioned a outing and brought along my daughter’s family. That meant we indispensable a two-bedroom/kitchen “suite” to residence us all. And with a kitchen, we could make a possess dishes and equivocate a high cost of pina coladas during a hotel restaurants.

After a five-hour moody we landed during a Honolulu airport, bought a integrate of leis, and headed for a Aulani Resort in a let van, that we indispensable for all of a suitcases, carry-on bags and automobile seats. When we arrived during a hotel, a feeling of Aloha was immediately evident, interjection to a talent of Disney “Imagineers.” They had recreated a atmosphere of “Hawaii” perfectly, right down to Mickey and Minnie dressed as island tourists.

First stop: The most expected “Lazy River,” a curving half-mile-long, jet-propelled stream, where even mature “vacationeers” can secrete a vast raft and do zero some-more than boyant for hours on end. Needless to say, we spent a day in a water, until it was time for a piña colada appetizer, a mai tai dish and a strawberry daiquiri shaved ice dessert.

Meanwhile a grandkids went off to play during “Auntie’s House, a 5,000-square-foot “day care” that was value a cost of acknowledgment (free). The keikis were underneath a supervised caring of a dozen “Aunties” (and GPS tracked!) while they played with artistic toys, ate kid-friendly meals, fed a fish, done erupting volcanoes, listened to Hawaiian stories and dressed adult in Disney costumes. The prominence of any revisit were a warn guest appearances by Goofy, Stitch and a Chipmunks.

Yeah, it was a dream vacation, right down to a Disney sunsets, roller and shops. But I’ll acknowledge — we did move along some work to do while sitting on those chaise lounges by a pool. It only didn’t seem like a genuine vacation but it.

Contact Penny Warner during www.pennywarner.com.

Posted on | Apr 29, 2013 | Comments

Jedi Training Academy is a renouned “Star Wars” captivate in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. Contributed Image.

The West Coast Orange County will join a East Coast Orange County in imprinting Star Wars Day on Friday.

I’m substantially a usually one on a world who indispensable to be told because May 4 is Star Wars Day (“May a Fourth be with you”), even yet we have a debility for puns.

The date is a most bigger understanding during Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, though Disneyland Resort in Anaheim will have “Star Wars” product for pin traders this weekend.

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Theme parks don’t like to recover opening dates until they’re certain a new captivate will be prepared for guest by that time. It would be bad form to do otherwise, really. Missing a pointless deadline looks bad to a public, and unsatisfactory travelers who have formed their hard-earned vacations on a opening of, oh, say, a Seven Mine Dwarfs Train, would be only dopey.

In many instances, we primarily are given a extended thought of when attractions are approaching to be ready, and afterwards it gets narrowed to a specific deteriorate or time duration as work progresses. Construction doesn’t always go as planned, as anyone who’s had a kitchen remodeled will attest.

Last week, during Disney World’s two-day media preview, deceptive openings were tossed around for incoming projects. The dates that follow were possibly mentioned in a open meeting, personal interview, press recover or on a central Disney Parks Blog.

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We make no promises. It’s out of a control. This is merely a guide.

•Adventurers Outpost, new indoor Mickey-Minnie meet-up, Discovery Island during Disney’s Animal Kingdom: Spring 2013.

•A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of a Seven Seas, interactive diversion during Magic Kingdom’s Adventureland: “Coming soon,” says final week’s press release, nonetheless a blog post in Apr says “summer.”

•Wilderness Explorers, interactive diversion during Disney’s Animal Kingdom: “in a few weeks” (as of talk on Apr 26).

•Starbucks during Main Street Bakery in Magic Kingdom: early summer.

•Starbucks during Fountain View in Epcot: midsummer.

•California Grill reopens atop Disney’s Contemporary Resort: late August/early Sep 2013.

•Princess Fairytale Hall, stately meet-and-greet during Magic Kingdom: tumble 2013. (“In copiousness of time for a holidays,” says Walt Disney World President George Kalogridis.)

•Introduction of FastPass+ and MagicBand: “later this year” Kalogridis says.

•Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, drum coaster during Magic Kingdom: open 2014.

•Festival of Fantasy, march during Magic Kingdom: open 2014

I’m always rather vacant when we travel by a Walt Disney World park and see all a children romping in a several stadium areas. we mean, with all a high-tech thrills available, since would anyone spend their time using around a Honey we Shrunk a Audience set during Hollywood Studios?

Now, we don’t have children — as we relatives have already figured out from my ignorant question. In fact, we can hear we shouting during me already. But we recently visited Disney’s Hollywood Studios with a good friend, his mother and their dual immature boys. Let me tell you: That Honey we Shrunk a Audience stadium was a hit: Running and shifting and climbing. we had lost that children have a critical need to bake off energy, and play areas such as this give them a tranquil approach to do usually that.

My friend’s 5-year-old adopted me as his climbing buddy, and after a request that my much-older-than-5-years-old knees wouldn’t rebel, we plunged into a rope-climbing march of moving tunnels. My knees were excellent — all 4 times we did it. My immature crony would cocktail out a exit, spin around, squeeze my palm and lift me right behind to a entrance. Up we’d go again.

It was an journey for a 5-year-old, and he couldn’t get enough.

His comparison brother, during age 9, elite a leisure of exploring solo — there are tunnel-style slides and other points of seductiveness to check out. The area is fun to demeanour during — all is incomparable than life, even blades of grass, as if we humans have been shrunk to bug distance as in Disney’s film series.

Parents, note that there’s usually one exit from a area, monitored by a expel member, so kids can’t “escape” out into a park on their own. In this way, since relatives can keep an eye on a exit, too, they don’t have to run after their kids. My crony and his mother took advantage of a respite, falling down gratefully to a seated position. Me? With my new appreciation for theme-park playgrounds, we was due for outing 5 adult a wire course.

Apparently apropos a Disney princess is a lot easier than faking your possess death, putting a strike out on one of those tertiary Disney princesses that no one will miss—no offense, Jasmine—and hijacking her temperament in a Don Drapean tract twist. This was valid final night by Mariah Carey, who, for a low-key fifth annual wedding-vow renovation to Nick Cannon, rented out a whole Disneyland thesis park and, in a firework- and glass-carriage-punctuated, entirely costumed, and again, low key!, ceremony, crowned herself a Disney princess for a evening—showing fans that they too can foster themselves from mortal to ball-gown-wearing princess in a few easy steps.

Per Entertainment Tonight’s summation of Carey’s new self-coronation/wedding-vow renewal, these easy stairs are:

1. Rent out Disneyland thesis park in Anaheim, California, for a day and night.

2. Invite 250 of your many insinuate friends to your coronation/wedding-vow renovation around invitations that clearly state that a thesis of this eventuality is “Do we trust in angel tales?”

3. Although we are extravagantly wealthy, we are also practical. Use this day of theme-park remoteness to also reason a second-birthday party, prince-and-princess-themed obviously, for your twins.

4. Have princess-inspired round gowns and tiaras specifically done for both we and your daughter.

5. Have prince-inspired uniforms with bullion piping designed for your father and your son.

6. Demand a assemblage of each Disney princess as good as Micky and Minnie Mouse during a festivities.

7. Hire a stately servant from Cinderella, Major Domo, to offer as your master of ceremonies for a dusk and lead your guest in a champagne toast.

8. Decorate with 15,000 flowers alien from South Africa, Holland, and France.

9. Procure 10,000 crystals with that to accoutre a park.

10. Rent or erect a horse-drawn clear carriage to modestly ride we and your family by a park that day and night. This will make your guest presumably feel really gentle and included.

And voilà! With a right planning, budget, and South African flower vendor, angel tales can come true! Good luck! We unequivocally demeanour brazen to Mariah’s sixth annual wedding-vow renovation subsequent year.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 by Peter Sciretta

During my talk final week with Marvel Studios conduct Kevin Feige and Iron Man 3 executive Shane Black, we brought adult Patton Oswalt’s overwhelming ad-libbed Star Wars: Episode VII representation (a Parks Recreation outtake) that concerned a cross-over eventuality involving Disney’s Marvel superhero and galactic universe.

While many of my colleagues were seeking a softball questions like “will Robert Downey Jr come behind for a fourth Iron Man” or “where will Marvel go in Phase 3?” we knuckled down with a much some-more critical hardball question: when is Disney going to take Oswalt’s representation severely and give us that Marvel/Disney cross-over film? Find out a answer after a jump.

For those who missed it, here is Oswalt’s Star Wars pitch:

When we brought adult Oswalt’s spiel, Iron Man 3 executive Shane Black confessed that “it’s a flattering overwhelming rant”. I incited to Marvel conduct Kevin Feige with a doubt he was probably fearing many in his talk rounds: “So when are we going to see that movie? When is that going to happen?” He said:

I don’t know, we figure… It substantially took twenty or thirty years of comic book cinema before they finally motionless that we could mix them into THE AVENGERS, so substantially another thirty years of STAR WARS cinema before Disney goes “What are we going to do?” “Put them together!”

But we wasn’t about to let him get divided with a “probably”, following-up with “So 2048?” Feige assuringly responded “Be there!”

So there we have it Marvel and Star Wars fans — symbol your calendar for Summer 2048!

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After years of reining in spending,
Aney Salas was prepared to open a bit for her kids to have some
fun. So they headed to Knott’s Berry Farm, a 73-year-old
amusement park nearby Los Angeles. The draw, other than nine
terrifying drum coasters: annual passes that cost $72 each,
payable in 6 monthly installments of $12.

“A remuneration devise unequivocally helps,” a 31-year-old mom of
four pronounced while shepherding her group out of a car. “It makes
it unequivocally affordable.”

Matthew Ouimet, authority and arch executive officer of
Cedar Fair LP (FUN), that owns 16 entertainment and H2O parks including
Knott’s, expects assemblage and sales during a association to exceed
last year’s annals in partial due to pricing initiatives such as
the remuneration devise introduced in Feb 2012.

Knott’s, handling in a shade of Disneyland only six
miles away, also offers a discount of as most as 38 percent off
the $60 single-day sheet to people who buy in allege online.
Customers who hatred watchful can compensate $35 additional to cut to a front
on 12 renouned rides such as Montezooma’s Revenge, that sends
riders “zooming” brazen and back by a seven-story
loop.

“We’re saying a barbell economy,” Ouimet pronounced over the
screams of roller-coaster riders in a park. Some consumers are
willing to compensate additional for perks such as slicing lines, while
others need “a some-more benefit-oriented” pitch.

Canada’s Wonderland

Even on vacation, some travelers sojourn cost-conscious.
Visits to Orlando, Florida, a theme-park collateral of a U.S.,
reached a record 56.8 million final year, according to a local
tourism authority. But air travel to Orlando was down, according
to internal airport data, suggesting expansion came from travelers
piling into cars instead of profitable for craft tickets.

Cedar Fair, formed in Sandusky, Ohio, owns Kings Island in
Cincinnati, Canada’s Wonderland in Toronto and Dorney Park in
Allentown, Pennsylvania. Two-thirds of guest live within 100
miles of a parks they visit, creation them some-more expected to
purchase deteriorate passes, Ouimet said.

Sales of passes climbed 10 percent final year with the
introduction of a remuneration plan, Ouimet said. Customers using
passes accounted for roughly 40 percent of a 23 million visits
to Cedar Fair parks final year, adult from one-third a year
before. The loyalists turn salespeople, he said, convincing
friends and family to buy passes, too. The association lifted the
price by 7.4 percent in January.

Anaheim Neighbor

Walt Disney Co. (DIS) lifted a cost of a reward annual pass
to Disneyland and California Adventure in Anaheim by 30 percent
last year, to $649. The boost follows a $1.1 billion
remodeling of California Adventure that enclosed the
introduction of a Cars Land attraction.

“They put a poignant investment in to change the
character of that park,” pronounced Matthew Earnest, a principal at
theme-park consultant Entertainment Culture Advisors in
Beverly Hills, California. “That helps clear a higher
price.”

Attendance during Disney’s domestic parks rose 3 percent in the
year finished Sept. 29, a association pronounced in a annual report.
Operating income climbed 22 percent to $1.9 billion, a company
said. Its shares are adult 26 percent this year. Disney also sells
Southern California residents passes good for reduction than half the
days in a year for $269.

At Cedar Fair, net income rose 43 percent in 2012 to $101
million, or $1.81 a share, on a 3.9 percent benefit in income to
$1.07 billion. Profit was still next a $161 million rise in
2005. Shares of Cedar Fair tripled from 2010 to 2012 and have
also gained 26 percent this year.

Magic Mountain

Southern California has prolonged upheld a accumulation of theme
parks, from premium-priced Disneyland and a elaborate
attractions to Universal Studios, Six Flags Magic Mountain and
Knott’s. All offer deteriorate passes and remuneration options.

Sales during Six Flags Entertainment Corp. (SIX), formed in Grand
Prairie, Texas, rose 5.6 percent to $1.07 billion final year as
attendance increasing 6 percent. Its shares have risen 19 percent
this year. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. (SEAS), tranquil by Blackstone
Group LP (BX), sole batch in an Apr 19 initial open charity at
the tip of a due range. Shares of a Orlando-based
company are adult 24 percent given then.

Ouimet, a 17-year Disney maestro who led a company’s
Anaheim review before vacating in 2006, has been adding
attractions on a some-more singular bill given he assimilated Cedar Fair
two years ago.

Wilderness Scrambler

He’s powdering off an aged float called a Wilderness
Scrambler that was in storage and reintroducing it as partial of a
remodeling of Knott’s family-oriented Boardwalk area opening May
25. He’s also restoring aged models of California’s Spanish
missions, Catholic outposts dating from 1760s to 1830s, that
were a underline of Knott’s in a 1950s, for arrangement in the
park’s Western-themed Ghost Town.

Cedar Fair skeleton to spend about $100 million on capital
improvements this year, a association said. That includes the
GateKeeper, a swift drum coaster opening May 11 during a Cedar
Point park in Sandusky.

The float got a name given it roars over a front gate
where acknowledgment booths once stood. The gates are reduction crowded
these days given some-more visitors are shopping in allege or flashing
season passes to get in, Ouimet said. That doesn’t meant they
don’t stop to demeanour during a cars resounding down a lane overhead.

“Coasters,” he said, “are easy to market.”

To hit a contributor on this story:
Christopher Palmeri in Los Angeles at
cpalmeri1@bloomberg.net

To hit a editor obliged for this story:
Anthony Palazzo at
apalazzo@bloomberg.net

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The Delirium swings like a pendulum during King’s Island thesis park in Cincinnati. Cedar Fair LP, formed in Sandusky, Ohio, owns Kings Island, Canada’s Wonderland in Toronto and Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The Delirium swings like a pendulum during King’s Island thesis park in Cincinnati. Cedar Fair LP, formed in Sandusky, Ohio, owns Kings Island, Canada’s Wonderland in Toronto and Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Photographer: Tricia Spaulding/Lexington Herald-Leader/MCT/Getty Images