Word: cooking
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...wonderful world of Pixar worth? More than a billion dollars a picture, or $6.3 billion? That's what Disney agreed to spend last week to bring Lasseter, Jobs and the Pixar supporting cast into the Magic Kingdom. "Clearly, it's a lot of money," Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook told TIME, adding that "all the different scenarios had to be presented and analyzed" before the board would sign off. But Disney CEO Robert Iger, who took over from the controversial Michael Eisner in October, was determined to revive Disney animation, which has been starved for hits since Tarzan...
...Kong Disneyland last fall, as he watched old Mickey, Goofy and Donald parade by and realized that if he wanted new characters--for video games, theme-park rides, live stage plays--he needed the whiz kids in Emeryville. "Animation films are such a driving part of our company," says Cook. "We just said, 'Wow, this is where it all starts, and this is what we've got do.' It hit home...
...make the deal work, the combined outfits need to step up production. The goal is to release two movies a year; Pixar has done one every 18 months. A steering committee is supposed to protect Pixar's culture, and Cook says Jobs agreed to sell only after getting a guarantee that Pixar wouldn't be Disneyfied. But the price is steep. SG Cowen analyst Lowell Singer estimates that if Pixar doesn't produce four films every three years, Disney's profits will take a hit. Says Singer: "Disney is paying a price for Pixar that requires flawless execution...
...Your wife can't cook, anyway," King teased. "She's too good-looking." He fell into a chauvinist bromide about the value of plain wives, and Abernathy took up the flip side with remarks on the beauty of Gwen Kyles. He retreated to the bathroom with a flirtatious grin that he must splash on Aramis cologne just...
...village doctors and paramedics," says Faisal Edhi, trustee of Karachi-based NGO the Edhi Foundation. "There is a shortage of doctors and nurses, so people now have to travel far to get to the doctors in makeshift medical camps." Because people have no money for fuel, they can't cook meals, adds Rana Khurshid Amed, a Neelum Valley forestry official, "so they look to the government and to God for help. It's only God who is there. Let's see how many people survive the snow...