Word: mickey
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...another, pointing out that such on-location episodes usually do well in the ratings. Of course, they're not bad for company image either (Disney World has script approval of all programs shot there; among the verboten scenes are any that reveal human beings inside those Mickey and Goofy costumes...
...McDermott winds up at ABC, she'll find a company in the throes of corporate culture shock--or at least culture adjustment. Signs of Disneyfication have so far been small but symbolic. A new E-mail system on ABC computers is decorated with Mickey and Minnie icons, and Disney's annual report prompted snickers by referring to Capital Cities/ABC employees, in traditional Disneyese, as "new cast members." At a corporate retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, Eisner and Ovitz joined in the wholesome fun as a group of ABC execs was dragged off to a bowling alley...
Clinton yesterday named Mickey Kantor, the U.S. trade representative, as the new Commerce Secretary, and appointed Franklin Raines, vice chair of the federal housing agency Fannie Mae, as budget director to replace Rivlin...
Like most Hollywood productions, this is high-level illusion. Geffen, who is gay, lobbied the President to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military. Geffen stands to gain from the crackdown on the Chinese black market in American videos and CDs that his friend Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade Representative, negotiated last year. At 53, Geffen loves to talk economic and budgetary policy, and has a personal and professional interest in the culture wars. As a movie producer, he counts on Clinton to keep the morality-in-media debate focused on industry self-regulation. Above all, however, Geffen...
...spam"--Internet jargon for machine-generated junk mail--and over the years I'd received my share of E-mail chain letters, get-rich-quick pitches and cheesy magazine ads. But I had never experienced anything like this: a parade of mail that just got bigger and bigger, like Mickey's brooms in Fantasia. Not only was I getting hundreds of subscription notices, but I was also receiving copies of every piece of mail posted to those lists. By Monday the E-mail was pouring in at the rate of four a minute, 240 an hour...