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...board this week has demonstrated that this is truly a 'do-nothing Eisner board.'" ROY E. DISNEY AND STANLEY P. GOLD, former Disney board members, renewing their criticism of CEO Michael Eisner, shortly after Comcast dropped its $54.1 billion bid to take over the company...
...debut book, "Same Difference and Other Stories," appeared last year as a self-published paperback, and with a small print run and zero name-recognition it flew under most radars. Suddenly, though, Kim has swooped into our airspace, receiving nominations for two of the top honors in comix: Eisner Award nominations for Best Short Story and Name Deserving of Wider Recognition, and a Harvey Award nomination for Best New Talent. The hat trick: Top Shelf will be reprinting the original book next month in a spiffy new edition. Here is your chance to catch up on this artist's sharp...
Bruno Bonnell = Michael Eisner CEO of Atari CEO of Disney...
Bruno Bonnell wants to be the next Michael Eisner--literally. "No company has ever impressed me more than Disney, and I hear they may be looking for a new boss," says the head of games giant Atari in his heavily accented French. "Maybe I should apply?" It's just a light-hearted thought for now. But if there's one thing you learn from looking at Bonnell's career, it's never to underestimate his ability to leapfrog. Leaping frogs, in fact, is where he started. In 1983 Bonnell co-wrote Autoroute, the French version of Frogger. He then founded...
...looked great, but the final product was slammed by fans as too buggy (it sold 5 million copies). What happened? Bonnell had insisted it be released the same day as the movie--an unusual move in an industry notorious for constantly pushing back its deadlines. But like the embattled Eisner, Bonnell has no regrets. Enter the Matrix was worth it, he says, for the phone calls he's getting from actors and their agents (like Ving Rhames and Mickey Rourke, whose voices will be heard in the latest game in Atari's Driver series). "Ten years ago, most studio bosses...