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Yesterday Terminator co-star Linda Hamilton came in, as did Zsa Zsa Gabor. Arnold Schwarzenegger is said to be a silent partner in the place, and an enormous throne has been installed for his regular visits. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who runs Disney, brings his kids in for brunch during the summer. Julia Roberts, Sean Penn and Robert Altman have all stopped in from time to time. Even Bill Clinton has dropped by -- twice, in fact, first as a jogging candidate, and then in full presidential mode. "If you want to run into me or ICM's Jim Wiatt or Jeff Katzenberg...
...Malone, head of Tele-Communications, Inc., the country's largest cable operator. In one swoop, television's fuzzy dreams of an interactive future had acquired both immediacy and show-biz cachet. "I'm only surprised at how stupid the rest of us were not to see it," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Walt Disney Studios. Jokes CBS president Howard Stringer: "Already he's scared the Sears catalog out of business...
...Genie voiced by Williams, whose comedy routines pinball from one manic impression to another. Every time Williams would lurch into a new character, even if for a second, the Genie would assume that form. In five recording sessions spanning 15 months, Williams simply revolutionized cartoon voice acting. "Until now," Katzenberg notes, "we have been entertained by hearing the genius of how Robin's mind works. Now, like an erupting geyser, in full living color, we get to see him thinking...
...paid for the Carpet, who gets to say no (and, more than occasionally, Wow!) to Disney features, is Katzenberg. "Animation films represent the heart and soul of the company," he says. "It's the blood that flows through this worldwide enterprise. And Aladdin is creating new blood." He is speaking in part as a movie executive; he knows that, where there's a popular Disney cartoon, there will soon be a sound-track album, a best-selling videocassette, a Genie cookie jar, a new ride to lure the customers to the Disney parks. He also knows that cartoon characters...
...Katzenberg is also a moviemaker, justly proud of his studio's work in reviving the American cinema's unique contribution to 20th century art. Aladdin, with its headlong, death-snubbing herobatics, is a cartoon Raiders of the Lost Ark. Today's best animators, excavating and restoring the medium of Walt, Tex and Chuck, are triumphant raiders of the lost...