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...cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia. The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken often about doing a movie musical of Peter Pan. --TIME, March...
...Angeles has the Disney Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, and of course it's become a huge thing. But in smaller towns and a lot of them in the South--Little Rock, Huntsville, Baton Rouge--there are wonderful halls and great orchestras. It requires a huge investment for a community to say, We want a world-class orchestra, and we're willing to pay for it. And I particularly enjoy playing those places...
...whether another WorldCom-like debacle could occur despite the safeguards enacted in its wake. No doubt, corporate boards are flexing more muscle in an effort to improve accountability of all sorts. Former Boeing chief Harry Stonecipher recently lost his job for having an affair with a company employee. Disney's Michael Eisner and Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina lost their posts for poor performance, and AIG directors just forced out the firm's longtime chief, Maurice (Hank) Greenberg (see "Another Titan Takes a Tumble," above), as the company's legal woes mounted. WorldCom's collapse hit directors where it counted...
...APPOINTED. ROBERT IGER, 54, president of Walt Disney Co.; as CEO, to replace his longtime boss Michael Eisner, who will step down in September under fire from shareholders over his autocratic management style and Disney's lackluster growth; in Los Angeles. Though a recent book claimed that Eisner did not have confidence in his No. 2's ability to fill his shoes, Iger was tapped by the board of directors when Eisner decided to step down one year earlier than expected...
APPOINTED. ROBERT IGER, 54, longtime ABC executive and president of Walt Disney Co.; as CEO, to replace his boss, Michael Eisner, who will step down in September, a year earlier than expected, after coming under fire for his autocratic management style and Disney's recent lackluster growth; by the board of directors; in Burbank, Calif...