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...they sat together at an opulent wedding reception that financier Marvin Davis was throwing for his daughter at his Beverly Hills home on Dec. 7, Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz, the ranking executives at the Walt Disney Co., apparently came to the conclusion that their own corporate union must be dissolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OVITZ AND OUT AT DISNEY | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...next year, but events overtook him. He spent last week in Manhattan, attending a premiere of The Preacher's Wife on Monday. But Tuesday was rife with rumors that he was out. Wednesday evening he appeared strained as he addressed a Council on Foreign Relations meeting. As he spoke, Eisner was headed for Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OVITZ AND OUT AT DISNEY | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

What she'll do for The Lion King (scheduled to open in Minneapolis next July, then move to Broadway in the fall) is create a world of animals onstage without hiding the theatrical trickery needed to do so. It's an approach that Disney chief Michael Eisner and other company execs grasped instantly, she says, when she presented it to them. "I showed them gazelles leaping across the horizon--and also the wheels turning the gazelles, and the person pushing the wheels. We're not hiding anything. You'll see it happen in front of your eyes." Eight new musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: NO DANCING TEAPOTS | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Zingher was also in a three-way challenge followed by a runoff. She defeated Steven Gordon '98 in the runoff election after Brian Eisner '98 was eliminated in the first round of voting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hillel Elects Officers | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

Within the industry, however, their talents are hardly a mystery. Last spring Disney-ABC chief Michael Eisner tried to convince Carsey and Werner to take over the network's struggling entertainment division. They were tempted but said no, partly because it would have meant giving up their company and abandoning their new shows in the midst of development. The company, worth an estimated $1 billion, is growing fast, with a newly created distribution arm (two years ago, Carsey-Werner reacquired the domestic syndication rights for their biggest shows) and a fledgling movie division. Still, they don't rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MIDAS TOUCH | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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