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HANDS OFF! Nowadays, people want fun from...

By Steve Emmons, Cristina Lee and Helene Elliott

HANDS OFF! Nowadays, people want fun from their shopping malls, and owners are responding with amusement rides, animal shows and water parks (D7). . . . The trend has Disneyland upset enough to go to court. Disney is suing the world’s largest shopping mall--the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada--for calling its huge amusement area “Fantasyland.” Disney claims to own the name and doesn’t want it associated with “inferior” facilities. . . . A decision is expected this summer.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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