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Most visible in the land of megagrants is Walt Disney chief Michael Eisner, who was just given options on an astounding 8 million shares, a value compensation experts fix at $196 million. Like most options packages, Eisner's cannot be cashed out all at once. They must be used over a period of years, and their true value will be determined by how well the stock does in that period. So, in a sense, it's misleading to put a value on them now. (Corporations are required to provide the value of the options either at the date they...
Just one more reason not to live in Los Angeles. It seems there's an active volcano under Wilshire Boulevard, and is it steamed! It blows spitballs of lava up through manhole covers. It sends fire chunks into the sky, as if in a malefic Disney World spectacle, and has them land on prime Beverly Hills real estate. It not only exhales scalding air, it also sucks it back in. This monster, writhing undead in its coffin, has a personality. It even growls, basso profundo; imagine Barry White slowly murmuring "Booo...
Tonia d'Amelio, as Ana, was the only real singer in the ensemble, and her voice in song had a sweetness that disappeared in the exaggerated emphasis of her speech. Her character was an obvious spinoff of the book-loving Belle of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, down to the sweet if slight, Broadway-Disneyish lyrics: "Books are better than love." Even her foils, the three brightly-clad senoritas--Lolita (Debbie Hunter '00), Rosita (Jasmin Roman '00), and Marguerita (Shannon Tracey '00)--who coo over the very name of El Bean, were clearly modeled after the three blondes...
...ceremony was the culmination of the Lampoon's Fun Day, an annual event featuring cotton candy, popcorn and guest appearances by Buzz and Woody, the stars of Disney's Toy Story...
Among other problems, a source says, there was also a feeling at Disney--perhaps because of an overzealous reading of management's mood--that the Ellen decision might best be delayed until after last February's Disney stockholders' meeting so that chairman Michael Eisner would be spared having to defend that as well as his salary and Mike Ovitz's lavish payout. "When Disney or ABC were worried about boycotts or this or that, I kept saying to everybody, 'I'm the one who's going to get the biggest boycott,'" says DeGeneres. "'You can cancel the show...