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Eisner's revival of Disney has made him the current king of Hollywood and the darling of Wall Street. More important, though, is that Disney fans have begun to recognize him as a corporate hero of sorts, a long-awaited, trustworthy heir to Walt. Eisner has established himself as a charismatic, young-dad figure by appearing each week as the host of the Disney Sunday Movie, where the husky-voiced executive clowns with Mickey, Minnie and other colleagues. "This job is so perfect for him," says Dawn Steel, president of Columbia Pictures and a former co-worker at Paramount...
...longtime heir apparent at Disney was Ron Miller, Walt's shy but well- meaning son-in-law, who was made chief executive in 1983. Miller gamely tried to push the company out of Walt's shadow, primarily by starting Touchstone Pictures to enable Disney to produce adult fare without compromising the company's image. In 1984 the Touchstone label produced Disney's first hit in more than a decade, Splash, in which Daryl Hannah played a frisky mermaid. But by then the company's profits and stock price were already plunging. The same day that Disney released the film...
...Freud, Martha Bernays, makes modest appearances early in the book as a model hausfrau, but after delivering the opinion that psychoanalysis is a "form of pornography," she is rarely heard from again. The woman in Freud's later life was his daughter and intellectual heir Anna. She followed in her father's professional footsteps and, in all but conjugal function, became a dutiful substitute spouse...
...Jackson slowly moderates his rhetoric, there is a tendency to portray him as merely a flamboyant heir to Hubert Humphrey's free-spending domestic liberalism. There is truth to this contention, but there is also a clear parallel to another political leader: Ronald Reagan...
...fact that the same Republican voters who stampeded to Reagan's banner of radical reform now embrace Bush as the rightful heir speaks loudly about the complacent state of the Grand Old Party. Says Ed Rollins, an alumnus of the Reagan White House who chaired Kemp's campaign: "The kinds of conservatives who were Reagan rebels in 1976 and 1980 have become comfortable with being part of the Establishment. Bush has done a good job persuading these people that he'll protect the Reagan agenda and that they can trust...