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Such an ad-lib might have been only mildly sociopathic for Grant--or, with a different target, for Howard Stern or Don Imus. But WABC is owned by Capital Cities/ABC, which is owned by Disney, a company sensitive to image befoulers and potential boycotts. After the Brown joke, Jesse Jackson wrote Disney president Michael Ovitz urging Grant's swift dismissal. Ovitz replied that "we have already determined how we will handle the situation." The next day, before air time, Grant was told he was through...
...Disney and ABC got rid of a nuisance, but Grant may be the real winner. When he returns to New York radio, as he surely will, he can blame the p.c. media for his firing. The rabid sorehead will be a professional martyr...
Former Mickey Mouse maven Jeffrey Katzenberg knows a sweet deal when he doesn't get one. As head of filmmaking for the Walt Disney Co., Katzenberg was entitled to 2% of the profits from films and TV shows produced under his watch, says a suit he filed last week against his old employer. That could amount to a Lion King's ransom, because Katzenberg's definition of profits includes much more than income from movie tickets. "By way of example," says the suit, "in 1994 Disney's video re-release of Snow White, an animated feature first released over...
Katzenberg, who reanimated Disney by honchoing such megahits as Aladdin and The Lion King, says Disney stiffed him out of $250 million in unpaid bonuses. The high drama is Hollywood's favorite feud--between Katzenberg and Disney chairman Michael Eisner. Katzenberg stormed out in 1994 when Eisner refused to promote him to president. Last week a feisty Katzenberg was calling himself "the $250 million...
...Sawyer's, to start with). It is part of an American theology of redemption by kids--a sentimental reassertion of the nation's conception of its own innocence. It is especially important to stage such pageants when Americans are feeling dirty about something. Jessica Dubroff's adventure--a Disney story of redemption by a seven-year-old, a '90s remake of Shirley Temple playing Charles Lindbergh--might have worked as a gaudy, cute, uplifting antidote to the shaming mess of the Simpson trial...