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Still, Sports Night's freshness is inspiring, and its potential is great. Luckily, Disney chief Michael Eisner is rumored to be among the show's fans. The network has ordered more episodes and acknowledges that it has not promoted the show properly; plans are under way to better convey its tone. "Today a show needs to be distinctive to break out," says Jamie Tarses, president of ABC Entertainment. Here's hoping Sports Night can break out, for if it fails, it could give distinctiveness a bad name, and that's just what TV doesn't need...
...state law that forbids wearing masks or hoods to conceal a person's identity. "If they've got on a Klan robe and a Klan hat and any type of mask, including a Mickey Mouse mask, they will be arrested," said Vass. And then have to deal with Michael Eisner, he might have added...
...though there's no casino on board, it's also a floating crap game. The stakes are high: Disney will launch a second vessel, the Wonder, next June, and Eisner grandly hopes for a 10- or 12-ship fleet, sailing from Florida, California and the Mediterranean, within the next decade. He's betting that the cruise industry, which fills its cabins with discounted fares, can accommodate a competitor that charges 20% higher than the norm (starting at $860 for a three-day cruise, including airfare, compared with $648 on the Royal Caribbean line's Nordic Empress). The ship is heavily...
...long ago, Eisner would have been one of that group. He is not, he says, "a cruise guy." This type-A landlubber didn't see himself having fun trapped on a veritable retirement community at sea, where the most extreme sport was shuffleboard. So the Magic is not your grandma's cruise ship. Like Disney's parks and animated features, it is boldly designed to appeal to every demographic...
...first launching. And though it means to recall an elite era, it certainly hasn't intimidated the dress-down Disney audience of the '90s. As the ship sailed from Port Canaveral, a woman plopped her naked infant son onto the pool-deck walkway and blithely changed his diaper. If Eisner had seen this, he surely would have smiled. For here was one generation of Disney customer pampering the next...