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...most hotly contested use of an ESOP is at Polaroid, which has put 14% of the company's stock into employees' hands as a maneuver in its bitter six- month battle against a takeover bid by Shamrock Holdings, owned by the Roy Disney family. Because Massachusetts-based Polaroid is incorporated in Delaware, where an anti-takeover law requires that bidders must get 85% ownership of a target company to gain control, the ESOP is leaving Shamrock with almost no room to maneuver. When a Delaware court rejected Shamrock's challenge of the ESOP, Polaroid's workers "jumped up and down...
Some arrangements involve both on-screen and postproduction promotional efforts. Cans of Diet Coke, for instance, discreetly appeared in Walt Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Both Disney and Coke benefited again when the company conducted a TV ad campaign featuring the sultry Jessica Rabbit crooning for the diet drink...
OLIVER & COMPANY. Dickens with a twist: the sprightly tale of an orphan cat named Oliver, a gang of raffish dogs and a pampered poodle with Bette Midler's voice. A jaunty love song to New York City, and the sharpest Disney cartoon feature since Walt died...
STAY AWAKE (A&M). A collection of tunes from Disney films is a bundle of surprises. Suzanne Vega spooks her way through a Mary Poppins ditty; Tom Waits does a mine-shaft version of Heigh Ho; Ringo Starr and Herb Alpert loft When You Wish Upon a Star: a little eccentric but beguiling enough to be more than novelty...