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Last year the team went 2-7 overall, so any boasting of "returning starters" smacks of pointlessness. Still, by Lion standards, the team's offense will be good. It will return two good quarterbacks in senior Jamie Schwalbe and junior Mike Cavanaugh, will replace only the center position on the line and will feature maybe the best tight end in the league in senior Brian Bassett...
...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...
...though, the Katzenberg era at Disney -- one of phenomenal growth, an eerie stability and that amazing revival of the precious cartoon heritage -- has ended. Oh well, as the Lion King would say, hakuna matata. Not to worry. Eisner will reinvent his company, and soon, perhaps, Katzenberg will invent his own. For the moment, he's in the hot seat. His former colleague -- and future competitor -- is sitting in the Katzenberg seat...
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the enormously successful head of Disney's studio division, abruptly resigned after losing a bid for the company's No. 2 post. Hailed as the mastermind behind such blockbusters as Aladdin and The Lion King, the mercurial Katzenberg sought the post after the April death of Disney president Frank Wells. Katzenberg's exit augurs more uncertainty for Disney, which this year has already weathered Wells' death and chairman Michael Eisner's quadruple-bypass heart surgery...