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...Merritt is increasingly focused on composing for film and theater. He wrote songs for last fall's Katie Holmes movie, Pieces of April, and has collaborated with director Chen Shi-Zheng on two avant-garde Chinese folk operas, which were staged at Lincoln Center and Los Angeles' new Disney hall. "I'm enjoying working in theater, and I would happily never sing again," says Merritt. "But I am a bit torn. All the theater work is noncommercial, which means that there's no pressure to write a hit song. But it also means that there's no pressure to write...
...board this week has demonstrated that this is truly a 'do-nothing Eisner board.'" ROY E. DISNEY AND STANLEY P. GOLD, former Disney board members, renewing their criticism of CEO Michael Eisner, shortly after Comcast dropped its $54.1 billion bid to take over the company...
...fifth of gay male households have children. This "gayby" boom has given birth to a new niche-within-a-niche travel market. Olivia intends to make its Club Med excursion an annual event and has plans for a deluxe camping trip to Yellowstone National Park this summer. Disney is cooperating with the Family Pride Coalition, an advocacy group, on a special Father's Day weekend event expected to draw 35 gay families. And in July, R Families Vacations, a Rosie O'Donnell--branded upstart, inaugurates its first Caribbean cruise for gays and their clans. Rosie will be on board...
BRIAN L. ROBERTS, CEO of U.S. cable company Comcast, on the withdrawal of its unsolicited $54 billion bid for the Walt Disney...
Today the project sounds golden. But Hollywood didn't always think so. Disney-Miramax rejected Jackson's proposal, even at a compromised two-film length. The front-office pooh-bahs may have recalled the failure of Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, also in two parts (the second half was never made). For less remote box-office evidence, potential sponsors had only to measure the $300 million Jackson needed to make the trilogy against the measly $35 million or so his five previous features had earned worldwide...