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...Magoo cartoons were as simple and nearsighted as their subject. The Flintstones might just as well have been on radio. Ralph Bakshi seemingly made The Lord of the Rings with tracing paper and a Xerox machine. Now even the Disney organization is preoccupied with wooing the nation's video-game addicts over to its computer movie TRON. So it may be up to Bon Bluth to carry the torch of classical animation. Bluth would have it no other way. Like a conservative bishop fighting his church for abandoning the Latin Mass, Bluth left the Disney cartoon studio...
Fassi is the most extravagant of five Saudi sheiks living in the Miami area, but not by much. His sister and brother-in-law stumbled upon south Florida a couple of years ago when they were en route to Disney World. Mohammad and three brothers followed, and all stayed, according to Princess Hend Al Fassi Aziz, 25, because they liked "the climate and the action." Since then they have squandered perhaps $90 million and become a center of the greedy, glitzy action. The blizzard of cash-a petroleum byproduct, of course-has businesses, philanthropies and local governments scrambling...
James, 39, an analyst with San Francisco's Montgomery Securities, flew to Los Angeles for a trade screening of TRON, a $21 million innerspace fantasy with which the Disney organization hopes to reclaim its share of the movie marketplace. "Thirty-five minutes into the film/' he says, "the coughing started, and halfway through, people began to talk. This was a sympathetic audience that had turned apathetic. Walt Disney used to tell his people, 'Start with a story, then make the movie.' This time they got it backward." The next morning, through Montgomery's 30 traders...
...degree from Yale and an M.B.A. from Harvard. "But that matters less than that it won't be the blockbuster they counted on. The expectations of the investment community just weren't in line with the reality of the film." James believes that the high price of Disney stock (15 times its earnings, more than double the ratio of the much faster-growing Warner Communications) had caused potential buyers to wonder if the stock had peaked. "They were ready to hear bad news. And I wasn't the only analyst advising to sell. But the train...
...James know what makes a great movie?"-and cautions that "the film industry is among the most difficult to forecast. We analysts just have to have the courage of our convictions and hope we're right 51% of the time." In their executive offices on Dopey Drive, the Disney people are hoping that Ted James is right only...