Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the space program or the Alliance for Progress. And if the Kennedy name already has a cloud over it, Hersh's book comes to market the same way. Before publication he had to remove what would have been its most titillating assertion--that the President signed a contract agreeing to pay Marilyn Monroe $600,000 in hush money to keep quiet about their alleged (but much, much rumored) affair. Hersh acted after document experts warned him that the "contract" showed signs of being a counterfeit manufactured years after both Monroe and Kennedy died...
Disney counters that Katzenberg forfeited the money by running out on his contract. Such quarrels rarely go to trial. But this time, as the movie poster used to say, it's personal. Eisner and Katzenberg despise each other...
...face to face for a court-ordered chat on Nov. 3, things didn't go well. Having blown off some steam, the boys may finally be ready to talk and thus deprive Hollywood of a deliciously vicious courtroom clash. Technically, a jury would determine only whether Disney violated the contract. If the jury found it did, an arbitrator would determine the damage award...
This is not a contract dispute so much as a workplace divorce. Katzenberg and Eisner go back years, first at Paramount Pictures and then at Disney, where they presided over one of the most spectacular turnarounds in Hollywood history. But after 10 very good years, bad things started to happen. Frank Wells, Disney's charismatic No. 2 man, was killed in an April 1994 helicopter crash. Four months later, Eisner required emergency bypass surgery. To Katzenberg this seemed a logical time for his own advancement. He lobbied strenuously for the Wells...
Nice, I thought. But true? Was Berlin really classifying all these wise men as products of their times? Was he snubbing Rousseau's social contract as less than eternal? If that is what he is saying, then what is there to learn, beside the names and dates and buzzwords associated with these famous, antiquated theories of which Berlin writes? Moreover, what was I to do at the College in order to sort out one from another, to judge Tolstoy from Trotsky? Was this what I was going to encounter in the fall: questions? How many questions could a person...