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...urge to make all those dollars seem less abstract. What could a quarter billion dollars actually get you? TV and radio news spots gave us a hint: the Chicago Bulls! Breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald's for the next 3,500 years! Half as much money as Michael Eisner earned in 1997! We also learned that the odds of winning the grand prize are equal to the odds of getting struck by lightning on 14 occasions in a single year and 40 times higher than the chance of getting killed falling out of bed. How these numbers compare with...
...balmy Caribbean night on its final preinaugural cruise. "We're not moving, you know," one of the journalists joked. "It's just a big fan out there." Behind them, a sturdy voice piped up, "Well then, when you leave, would you turn it off?" The speaker was Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman and CEO, ever eager to make a joke about saving a buck...
RECREATION Hiking, fly-fishing, an annual raft trip, golf, tennis and hanging out are all popular, but the most pressing activity is dealmaking (and posing for the annual Annie Leibovitz photo). The Disney/ABC merger originated after Eisner and Buffett met on a Sun Valley golf course. Any new deals at this year's conference? Stay tuned for the next few months...
...like "synergy," "21st century" and "content is king" flew about, all three principals seemed as energized by one another as by the prospects for their partnership. Imagine the giddy, self-important friendships of high school; then imagine a high school in which the upperclassmen are Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, and you will begin to get the picture...
...Weinstein was already a friend and fan of Brown's, and when he read last month that her contract with the New Yorker was due to expire on July 1, he approached her with an offer. More than a year ago, according to Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, he and Brown--they too are good friends--had begun having general discussions about her joining the company in some capacity. The Miramax deal, Eisner explains, "is the culmination of two separate conversations...