Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cyberspace, Apple sails toward a brighter future with its interim CEO at the tiller. Even now, Jobs remains the great unknown as he shuttles in his beltless blue jeans between Pixar and Apple, spending serious time at the former only when there's a movie coming out or a Disney exec to be placated. "We're doubly blessed," says a Pixar employee of the company's volatile leader. "We get him when it's important, but most of the time he leaves us alone." Jobs is the first to admit that his role at the studio is less than hands...
...recently completed his second stint in rehab and is awaiting judgment later this month for a DWI he received after crashing his car into a tree and trying to flee on foot. His image worries him so much that he wonders whether he should tell people he is in Disney's new kids' movie, Inspector Gadget. "If I tell them, maybe they're going to grab their kids and go running from the theater, screaming, covering their eyes," he says...
...issue was Katzenberg's 2% share of royalties from Disney movies and their lucrative spin-offs in video, on CD and on Broadway. His team argued that these royalties could be virtually perpetual, as new markets and technologies opened. Disney was prepared to state that the big profits came only from the first cycle of theatrical and video release. But this suit was personal. Katzenberg often referred to Eisner as a father figure; Eisner had been his mentor for 19 years at Paramount and Disney. So he had to be stung by Eisner's offhand slur, in informal notes...
...when he eases up, he does so only partway. His idea of a dropout is a genius inventor taking a turn as a lead technologist for Disney. An engineer who moves to Maine to become a glass blower might have been a better example...
Since film critic GENE SISKEL died in February, questions have swirled about the future of the popular TV show he hosted with fellow Chicago scribe ROGER EBERT. In September, the Disney-syndicated series will change its name from Siskel & Ebert to Roger Ebert & the Movies, with new theme music and rotating guest critics. Yet to be determined: whether Ebert will let colleagues give the digital seal of approval. "In respect to Gene, we're not allowing other people to use the thumbs right now," says MARY KELLOGG, the Disney exec overseeing the show. "Things may change this fall...