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Animators draw figures; movie execs read them. So consider these numbers, just from Disney product. The studio's four CG features (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.), produced by John Lasseter and his cyber-Merlins at Pixar, earned an average of $214 million; the last two averaged $250 million. As for Disney's once mighty traditional animated films, the last four (Mulan, Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove and Atlantis: The Lost Empire) grossed, on average, just $116 million, and the last two didn't make it to $90 million. Pixar films were originally...
...just enjoy the color and variety of new destinations and stadiums--are becoming a more frequent sight at games across the country. The number of people 50 or older who go stadium hopping is growing 10% to 20% a year, says Jeff Wills, vice president of marketing for Roadtrips Inc., a sports-travel company based in Winnipeg, Man. His company arranges regional multicity baseball trips to the 30 major league North American parks...
Large indeed. According to a recent survey of 2.6 million job applicants by Colorado-based Avert Inc., which specializes in background checks, 44% of all resumes contain at least some lies. Other surveys by Bliss's group reveal that up to 90% of personnel directors report resume fibs about everything from past salaries to--inexplicably--Social Security numbers. And things aren't any better at the boardroom level. Christian & Timbers, one of the nation's top 10 executive-search firms, found that at least 23% of 7,000 resumes submitted for president, V.P. and board-of-director positions had been...
...allegedly unhappy about Moxley's interest in his brother Thomas. The case, frozen for more than 20 years, was built on confessions Skakel made to friends at the Elan School, a drub rehabilitation center for kids in Maine. DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, former talent agent, ex-chairman of MCA Inc. and the last of the Hollywood tycoons; in Los Angeles. Wasserman built MCA into an entertainment colossus with a film studio, TV studio, record label, theme parks and theatres. In over fifty years in the business, Wasserman's clients included Bette Davis, James Stewart, John Garfield and Gregory Peck...
...Eulogy By SID SHEINBERG, former president of MCA Inc...