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...Katzenberg calls it "the most pleasantly comfortable and unstressful conversation we've had with each other in a year...
...weeks ago, at a Las Vegas video convention, Jeffrey Katzenberg, chieftain of the Disney movie jungle, was joined onstage by an adult lion to tout The Lion King, the most successful film in the company's history. Suddenly the beast wrapped its paw around Katzenberg's thigh. The audience gasped, the trainer scrambled, and the wiry mogul wriggled free, raising his arms in victory...
...turned out, Katzenberg escaped the jaws of a lion but got devoured by a mouse. Last week the empire that Mickey built announced that Katzenberg, 43, was resigning Sept. 30, when his contract with the company expires. Chairman Michael Eisner, 52, had rebuffed his longtime protege's plea to succeed the late Frank Wells as second-in-command. And rather than stay as czar of all the % rushes -- supervising Disney's huge, 40-film-a-year slate, including the bijou animation unit -- Katzenberg walked. Joe Roth, the former movie boss of 20th Century Fox who was running the Caravan unit...
...pretty dry way to describe the termination of one of Hollywood's most successful professional marriages, which in the decade since the two men came to Disney pushed company revenues from $1.4 billion to $8.5 billion. And if last week's climactic conversation were dialogue in a Disney script, Katzenberg would tell the writer to punch it up. It went like this...
...fact, Katzenberg has hinted that if he does not get the job (his contract expires in five months) he will leave and probably head up a rival studio. Disney's decision would seem obvious, except that Eisner and Katzenberg have had a complicated relationship over the past two decades. The even-keeled Eisner keeps the volatile Katzenberg at a distance, relegating him to the role of junior prodigy. All Hollywood is watching how the drama will be played out, and some players are ready with their lines. "Michael and Jeffrey's relationship is like a 19-year marriage," record producer...