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...Iger, and his team; the tightwad who would never buy retail or take the big gamble for fear of making the big mistake goes and seals the deal of the year. "It took last year for it to be revealed that he wasn't warm and fuzzy," says a Disney executive. "But so what? Who cares about that when the stock is at 60? Warm and fuzzy is nice if you're slippers, but Michael is too smart and ruthless to care if he's liked...
...that sweet, dry July night in Manhattan, after his board approved creation of the biggest entertainment company in the world, Disney chairman Michael Eisner had dinner with his mom. Margaret Dammann Eisner has often been described as a world-class competitive woman, which suggests that her son's triumph last week owes something to genes. When young Michael was growing up in a Park Avenue apartment, his parents borrowed a Picasso from an art-dealer friend to hang in Michael's room. It was called Bullfight. The man who would come to influence, perhaps more than anyone else alive, what...
When dinner was over, Eisner went to the law firm Dewey Ballantine to iron out the final niceties of Disney's $19 billion deal to buy Capital Cities/ABC. And next morning, when he and Cap Cities chairman Thomas Murphy arrived on Good Morning America to stun the world with news of their merger, it was tempting to view Eisner's triumph as the kind of danouement usually reserved for the last 10 minutes of a Disney movie. Wall Street whooped at the deal, which united Disney's theme parks and movie and television studios with ABC's gold-plated network...
Michael Eisner had endured a wrenching year, in which he grieved the loss of his trusted colleague, Disney president Frank Wells, then began reading his own professional obituaries as he lay in a hospital recovering from heart surgery, and then read his company's obituaries--with headlines like CLOUDS OVER DISNEYLAND. Indeed, Wall Street analysts and rubbernecking Hollywood types watched with morbid glee the departure of one top Disney brain after another, to be replaced by men derided as Eisner's bean counters. The fact that in 1994 his company produced the year's top movie, The Lion King...
...Euro Disney looked more the beauty than the beast last week as it announced its first quarterly profit since opening in 1992. The theme park attributed third-quarter earnings of more than $35 million to an enthusiastic public response to price cuts in tickets, food and hotels--and a new Space Mountain roller coaster...