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...think I hate the little midget." --From unpublished notes for Disney chairman Michael Eisner's 1998 autobiography, Work in Progress...
...Michael Eisner, sitting on the witness stand 43 stories above Century City's Avenue of the Stars, flushed red when he heard the words read aloud. Anger, with a touch of embarrassment, crossed his face. The "midget," Jeffrey Katzenberg--Eisner's one-time protege at Walt Disney Co.--stared icily at his former boss. It was the moment Hollywood had been waiting for since Katzenberg sued Disney three years ago, claiming Mouseco had ripped him off to the tune of some $250 million in bonus money...
Katzenberg's lawyer, Bert Fields, counsel to such stars as Dustin Hoffman and Elle MacPherson, was drilling Eisner about comments made to Tony Schwartz, co-author of his autobiography. "Did you tell Schwartz, 'I think I hate the little midget'?" Eisner's response was testy. "If you pursue this line of questioning, you will put in the public record something that should not...I really didn't mean it." Eisner said he was angry, yes, but "I did not hate Jeffrey Katzenberg. I still do not hate Jeffrey Katzenberg." Fields persisted. "Didn't you say you were not going...
...dispute has long since turned personal for both men. Eisner's book relates how they grew up near each other on Manhattan's Park Avenue and rose through Hollywood's ranks together, with Eisner bringing in the decade-younger Katzenberg, first at Paramount, then at Disney. For two decades they worked in tandem, churning out blockbusters (Aladdin), star-making hits (Sister Act) and plenty of duds (Billy Bathgate). When Eisner wouldn't make Katzenberg his No. 2 after the death of president Frank Wells in a 1994 helicopter crash, the team went down as well...
...these logos similar? Certainly. Is that actionable? MICHAEL EISNER is about to find out. Next week intellectual-property lawyer PIERCE O'DONNELL will ask a Los Angeles court for the right to depose the Disney CEO on behalf of GoTo.com the Web search engine that was launched in December 1997 using the logo on the left. The one on the right belongs to Disney's Go Network, which made its online debut just last January. "We think Disney was well aware of our logo and consciously went forward with theirs," says O'Donnell, noting that in legal papers filed...