Monday, Feb. 14, 1994

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Whoopi Goldberg has survived her Friars Club roasting to surface as everyone's best guess for host of the Oscars. She may have a co-host, but Ted Danson is not on the short list.

Not content to hog the huge kids' home-video market, Disney wants to get families out to the theater. Beauty and the Beast opens on Broadway in April, and the company plans to renovate a Times Square movie house for stage shows. That seedy neighborhood was no place for a theme park.