Thursday, December 2, 2010

Perfect Town's First Imperfection

In 1989 Disney's then CEO, Michael Eisner, built the perfect town in Florida, he named it Celebration. People started moved in during 1996. Critics viewed the reminiscent of a quaint New England village as something out of The Truman Show or The Stepford Wife. In the 14 years that Celebration has been a town it has been perfect, it's "the kind of town where people give Christmas gifts to their favorite Starbucks barista, where welcoming wooden rocking chairs sit lakeside on a sidewalk without being stolen, where neighbors tend to get suspicious if they notice you're not around."
Recently though, this town faced it's first homicide. 58 year old Matteo Giovanditto's body was found dead in his apartment in Celebration. Neighbors filed a missing person report when they realized that no one had seen him since the day before Thanksgiving. Police haven't given any further details.


This town sounds super awesome, except for the murder part. I would love to live in a place so neighborly and friendly, but at the same time it would all seem really fake because nothing is perfect. I think that this crime kind of brought the townspeople back to the real world, and unfortunately that's what they needed because they're dreamers.

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_death_in_disney_town

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