Word: fathers
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...Broadway. His team argued that these royalties could be virtually perpetual, as new markets and technologies opened. Disney was prepared to state that the big profits came only from the first cycle of theatrical and video release. But this suit was personal. Katzenberg often referred to Eisner as a father figure; Eisner had been his mentor for 19 years at Paramount and Disney. So he had to be stung by Eisner's offhand slur, in informal notes for an autobiography, that "I think I hate the little midget"--a remark notable not just for its animosity but also...
...Vietnam comes round again for one of its periodic encores in the American mind. The war used to make these reappearances like the ghost of Hamlet's father as played by an adolescent--overacting, howling at the universe: think of the Rambo movies or Apocalypse Now. But the American flashbacks get more reflective as the years pass. This time the war revisits in the form of two documentary films, radically different from each other (one is utterly masculine, the other completely feminine). Both bring to the subject a wisdom earned the hard...
...white is the young John McCain, lieutenant commander, U.S.N., shot down in October 1967. In pain, he mutters to the camera that he loves his wife. McCain--now, of course, Republican Senator from Arizona and running for President--refused the early release that the North Vietnamese offered him (his father was commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific), an act of solidarity that earned him additional torture...
...people have grown up so completely in the public eye as John Kennedy Jr. The little boy bravely saluting at his father's funeral grew up to be a magazine publisher ? and the cameras were there every step...
DIED. FORREST MARS SR., 95, candy mogul; in Miami. Mars took over the Mars company from his father, who created the Milky Way bar in 1923. In 1940, Mars produced a slow-to-melt candy that was perfect for an era without air conditioning--and M&M's became a staple of American life, finding their way into World War II G.I. ration kits and children's school lunch bags. The treat, along with the firm's other name brands (from 3 Musketeers to the pet food Sheba), earned the Mars family a $16 billion fortune. An eccentric recluse...