Emilio Estevez Article.

Okay,Emilio Estevez, which is it:Do you love it in the Twin Cities or do you 
hate it?
     As Gordan Bombay, a hokey player whoes career is ended in injury in the 
Minnesota-lensed "D2 The Mighty Ducks," Estevez calls Minneapolis "a 
rinky-dink town." But the real-life Estevez says, " I love the Twin Cities." 
    Estevez has been here to film three movies, beginning with"That was 
Then,This is Now" in 1984 and continuing through the filming of both "Mighty 
Ducks" movies. On the first trip he stayed in a St.Paul building steeped in F 
Scott Fitzgerald lore: "I'm not sure what it was called, but there was a bar 
in the lobby of the building where F. Scott used to get hammered all the 
time." (sounds lke the Commodore Hotel) The Ducks movies were shot in LA and 
Minneapolis. The city looks especially good in d2, which features lots of Lake 
of the Isles, Dinkytown and the Mall of America. Estevez stayed in  downtown 
Minneapolis, in a hotel he can't remember.  ("It wasn't the Whitney, because 
they wouldn't take animals, and I have Rhodesian Rideback dog who goes 
everywhere," Estevez says.
        	
	Of all the celebrities who have worked in town for any length of time, there 
may be no one as beloved as Estevez. It's easy to find people about whom 
others have nothing negitive to say; that just means those folks managed to 
get through town without offending anyone.  But with Estevez, it goes a step 
further: People who have encountered him search out a reporter to tell warm 
fuzzy stories about him.
   
	Estevez wanted to be here for a Tuesday night screening of the movie for the 
local cast and crew. Then he joined them at a party hosted by the Minnesota 
film Board. Forget promoting, Estevez was doing what he does best:Being 
friendly.

	And being appreciated.  From his costars to the folks who handed out the 
doughnuts during the coffee breaks, the people who have worked with Estevez 
offer unsolicited testimonials to hes geniality: This is the kind of guy who 
searches out the people who sewed the costumes-- folks an actor normally has 
no contact with--to them he appreciated their work.

	In D2, Gordan Bombay returns to coaching the Ducks. Estevez says it was fun 
to work with the kids again, although some things had changed. "They got a lot 
taller," says the non-too-tall Estevez. "and their joks now took on a sexual 
connotation that they didn't before." Not true, says Shawn Weiss, who plays 
the teams goalie, Goldberg: "It's just that once we got to know Emilio, we 
figured we could joke with him. Besides, he's the one who corrupted us."  

	The suprising success of the first Mighty Duks led to Disney's purchase of 
the professional Anaheim Mighty Ducks, who are now in a hockey playoff race 
with the San Jose Sharks and the LA Kings(that's right California has three 
hockey teams, and Minnesota has none). "The whole thing has just snowballed," 
Estevez says. " The movie has a certain charm, and it isn't clouded by any 
pretense, but it's still a mystery to me why it was so popular."

	Estevez says you just never know. His movie "Freejack" attracted Anthony 
Hopkins and Mick Jagger to the cast, as well as Estevez, but script changes 
turned it into, he says, "not a good movie."  Its badness even led to a fight 
between Estevez and his father, actor Martin Sheen.

	"If you don't do publicity for a movie, you get a bad name for badmouthing 
the movie," Estevez says.  " So I was doing Freejack interviews and, put it in 
a position where youre fourced to promote the movie and say it's good, you 
start to believe it.  So I'm looking at Freejack, and I'm saying to myself, 
"Hey this isn't that bad after all."  Then, the day after screening, I'm with 
my dad, and he says, 'Emil, I don't know what your idea of a good movie is, 
but this isn't it.'  And we got into this horrible fight about the film as a 
result of my having to premote the film and believing the s--- I was 
shoveling."
 
	Estevez and Sheen are speaking again, and they've talked about making a movie 
together, but don't look for anything starring Estevez and his wife, pop 
singer Paula Abdul.  ''We were approched to do a movie together, and it was a 
great script," Estevez says.  "But we did reseach into movies with   
husband-and-wife teams and, traditionally, those movies have not been 
successful. I think it's because the audience asks, ' Why would we be 
interested in what goes on in your bedroom?' " 
	Actually, there are probably plenty of people who'd pay to see Emilio and 
Paula in their bedroom, but they will have to settle for Estevez doing the 
coaching thing with the Ducks.  Although there's no deal yet for a third Might 
Ducks movie, Estevez knows it'd be tough for Disney to make it without him, 
which means his fee could go into the high-sevan figures.  Says Estevez, "It's 
called having Disney over a barrel."