Word: disneyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mickey built announced that Katzenberg, 43, was resigning Sept. 30, when his contract with the company expires. Chairman Michael Eisner, 52, had rebuffed his longtime protege's plea to succeed the late Frank Wells as second-in-command. And rather than stay as czar of all the % rushes -- supervising Disney's huge, 40-film-a-year slate, including the bijou animation unit -- Katzenberg walked. Joe Roth, the former movie boss of 20th Century Fox who was running the Caravan unit at Disney, assumes Katzenberg's responsibility for the live-action films. Roy Disney, Walt's nephew, and Peter Schneider will...
...Michael never wanted a No. 2 person," says Richard Frank, who runs the TV unit at Disney. In fact, Eisner, who underwent a successful quadruple-bypass operation two months ago, was looking not to share power but to disperse it -- to impose a system not of hierarchy but lowerarchy, with division heads getting more power. "We're a large, multifaceted, multinational company," Eisner says. "We just all felt we had to decentralize, to run it in the divisional route...
That's a pretty dry way to describe the termination of one of Hollywood's most successful professional marriages, which in the decade since the two men came to Disney pushed company revenues from $1.4 billion to $8.5 billion. And if last week's climactic conversation were dialogue in a Disney script, Katzenberg would tell the writer to punch it up. It went like this...
Hollywood went seismic over the news. The town regards Katzenberg as the most demanding boss and the keenest people pleaser in the business. People wondered why Eisner, if he didn't want Katzenberg to run Disney's business side as Wells had, didn't simply redefine the job and take the younger man on as a junior partner -- instead of what he will surely become, a ferocious competitor...
...think Jeffrey should have been given anything he asked for, based on his mountain of accomplishments at Disney," says Steven Spielberg, who is co- owner with Katzenberg of Dive, the scalding-hot new Century City eatery. ! "But I don't think he's feeling bitter about it. He's looking forward to an exciting future...