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...unpredictability is part of what makes his comic take so fresh. "Somebody should always be offended," Rock says. "Somebody in your life should always be like, 'Why did you have to do that?' Always. That's just being a real artist. That's the difference between Scorsese and Disney...
...Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner, left, has commissioned millennial choral symphonies from two up-and-coming American composers, Michael Torke and Aaron Jay Kernis, center. Kurt Masur, right, and the New York Philharmonic will premiere them...
...income of a corporate CEO increased fivefold since 1990 ? and last year alone the figure rose 36 percent, compared with a 2.7 percent increase in the average blue-collar wage. If you?re slaving away for the median employee?s annual income of $29,267, then the fact that Disney CEO Michael Eisner was paid $576 million last year is bound to get you whistling a Woody Guthrie tune. Never mind if you?re in the developing world and have have to swallow the fact that the combined worth of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Paul Allen ($156 billion...
...even replacing her. The hot, young and female programming exec who at 32 landed the top entertainment spot at ABC on the strength of birthing "Friends" at NBC was "reorganized out of a job before she even left her job," says TIME television writer James Poniewozik. "In Disney?s ongoing quest to take advantage of the vertical integration potential of getting Disney-produced shows on the network it owned, a development person just didn?t figure in." Yet Tarses, dogged by criticism and rumors of her impending doom almost from the moment her tenure began in 1996, never really made...
...attention for surface things, like the ?TV is Good? campaign, during Tarses? time there," Poniewozik says. "The image is different. But she just hasn?t pulled in the ratings to go with it." That lack of bottom-line success made it that much easier for the Disney suits to surround her with more and more synergistic corporate types, until life at the Alphabet lost its appeal. Another raft of reorganization meetings inside ABC Entertainment this week was apparently the last straw. Although some reports said that Tarses was due to be sacked, on Thursday it was hard to find...