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...Disney is pricing diamond rings too, mulling a group effort with cable little-guys Cox Communications and Charter Communications to put it back in the front lines of the content-and-cable combination sweepstakes...
...what did you expect this week - optimism? Wall Street came back from an idyllic East Coast summer weekend with Friday's clouds in tow, using - gasp! - lackluster earnings news from 3M and Lexmark Technologies to sell the Dow off 100 and the NASDAQ off 25 by noon. (Disney presumably did not help matters by announcing that will buy Fox Family for $3 billion - and keep the 700 Club...
...thought it would be easy to come back, but everywhere I turn I am reminded of those beautifully bronzed Floridians that have come to characterize the state: surfers, sunbathers and Mandy Moore. I feel a closer connection with another group of people, a group that I, an avid Disney-goer since birth, can easily spot: British tourists. Crayola Crayons have yet to create the appropriate colors for these Brits. I would call them “Pasty Translucent” and “Lobster Red.” My skin tone runs this gamut...
...Attention to detail did not come cheap. Disney balked at the proposed budget of $208 million. No one knew how well a jingoistic American anthem would sound in the important overseas markets, "so we had to figure zero for Japan," says Disney studio chief Peter Schneider. He would later ask Bay to reshoot an inflammatory scene in which a civilian Japanese dentist working in Hawaii was depicted as a spy for his homeland...
...canceled traditional studio-movie goodies like a wrap party and jackets for the crew. "We joked that this was the most expensive independent movie ever made," says Bay, who threatened to quit several times over budget and ratings issues. (He wanted an R to depict the horrors of war; Disney wanted PG-13 to get more teens in the seats.) Still, he trimmed the price to $145 million on the orders of Joe Roth, who was then head of the studio. When Roth resigned, Disney chairman Michael Eisner demanded an additional $10 million cut. Bay walked. "I wasn't sure...