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‘Parasite’ to land on Hulu in April

- BY KARU F. DANIELS

reca e , pointing to is right cheek as he reenacted the encounter. “And we both … kissed on the lips, and … I thought I was going to die. I thought … ‘He could just kill me right now.’”

“Did he play it cool?” host Joe La Puma asked.

“He grabbed me and he goes, ‘It’s OK,’” the “Tonight Show” host recalled. “And I was like, ‘All right, I’m not going to bring it up. This is awkward, I’m going to go home. I messed up, I kissed Michael Jordan on the lips.’”

I saw him a couple of months ago at a restaurant,” Fallon (left) said of the 57-year-old Bulls legend.

“You bring it up?” La Puma asked.

“No, but we kind of had a look like we knew … He knows who I am,” Fallon laughed, joking. “Great kisser.”

Fashion trailblaze­r Tyra Banks has another big idea in play.

And just like with her other ventures, she may be cashing in big time.

In May, the supermodel turned super mogul — with a net worth of $90 million — will officially open her experienti­al model-themed amusement park, ModelLand, in Santa Monica, Calif.

The long-gestating project has been 12 years in the making for the groundbrea­king “Sports Illustrate­d ” cover girl and “America’s Next Top Model” creator.

“I’ve been obsessed with Disney and Universal Studios tour and places that just take you on a journey,” she told Steve Iervolino of ABC Radio Networks about her inspiratio­n. “Like, you can just say goodbye to your everyday crazy life and come to this place.”

But shockingly, the actual idea — for the 21,000-square-foot multilevel attraction that allows guests to live out their ultimate modeling fantasy — didn’t germinate in the palm tree-laden, sun-soaked City of Angels. Banks said the idea came to her in The Big Apple.

“I was riding in a car on the East River here in New York City, and I came up with this idea,” Banks revealed. “I was like, ‘What about this? If I created a story about a magical modeling world that, you know, was overtaken by people that said that perfection — and what people are saying is perfection — is wrong.’”

“’And then I have people take it over, and then maybe I create a place that people can come and live this ultimate fantasy!’”

With a mission to “bring modeling to the masses,” the attraction’s title shares the same name as the young-adult novel Banks published in 2011 based on her life.

Tickets for ModelLand are officially on sale at three different price points.

According to its website, the most expensive is one packaged called “Fantascene Dream” for $1,495 (plus fees) that includes everything offered with the more moderately-priced $59 General Access and the mid-ranged Fantascene Photoshoot ($549), plus a personal consultati­on with a ModelLand fashion and beauty expert to customize a photoshoot, as well as additional couture styling and wardrobe changes, more photos, a model goodie bag, a ModelLand robe, and a custom, specialize­d photo grid made specifical­ly for customer’s social media account.

Unlike some of her other ventures, that are strictly model-focused, Banks said that the attraction is much different with its state-of-the-art interactiv­e entertainm­ent, creative collaborat­ions, curated retail, dining and special events.

“It’s not about, like being a profession­al model. It’s not about that,” she said. “It’s about just coming and taking the most amazing photos and getting tips and tricks and going on a story driven journey.”

Attraction Magazine reports ModelLand is located at Macerich’s Santa Monica Place, the open-air entertainm­ent district near the Santa Monica beach.

“I have combined Disneyland with Willy Wonka, with ‘America’s Next Top Model’ to create Modelland, which is a place that everybody can come,” she continued. “Families, date night, kids, teens can come and live the ultimate modeling fantasy.”

This year’s Oscar for best picture goes to…. Hulu.

The Disney-owned streaming platform has snagged the exclusive U.S. streaming rights to “Parasite,” the film that made history as the first foreign-language film to win best picture at this year’s Academy Awards.

Under a deal with Neon – the independen­t film studio which distribute­d the Bong JoonHo-helmed dark comedy in North America, Hulu will launch “Parasite” beginning April 8.

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