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...think I hate the little midget." --From unpublished notes for Disney chairman Michael Eisner's 1998 autobiography, Work in Progress...
Michael Eisner, sitting on the witness stand 43 stories above Century City's Avenue of the Stars, flushed red when he heard the words read aloud. Anger, with a touch of embarrassment, crossed his face. The "midget," Jeffrey Katzenberg--Eisner's one-time protege at Walt Disney Co.--stared icily at his former boss. It was the moment Hollywood had been waiting for since Katzenberg sued Disney three years ago, claiming Mouseco had ripped him off to the tune of some $250 million in bonus money...
Finally it was out in the open, the bad blood between two of Hollywood's most influential executives, men who worked together to create such Disney classics as The Lion King and The Little Mermaid. Now they are locked in a multimillion-dollar battle about profit participation in such things as Pooh-n-You games at Club Disney and the upcoming film Toy Story 2. Katzenberg claims that as head of the studio from 1984 to 1994, he is due 2% of all income from films and TV shows made during that period--in perpetuity. (Think sequels, videos, Broadway shows...
...media, '90s sense of the word. Multiple brides fly through the air at a rather astonishing pace, a full-sized carriage careens dangerously across the set, gallons of fog are blown onto the stage, and the audience is treated to a rare display of indoor pyrotechnics. So in short, Disney meets The Boston Ballet...
...LADIES, EITHER Disney recently asked Elton John and Tim Rice to update Aida, the opera about an Egyptian's doomed love for an Ethiopian slave. They did more than just lighten the tone. While Verdi has Egyptians making garlands for soldiers, John and Rice have the Spice Girls singing about panties...