Word: moribundity
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...Redstone and Viacom's stockholders won't be laughing if Freston and Brad Grey--the former agent (for Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, among others) and packager (The Sopranos) who was recently chosen to run Paramount--don't rejuvenate the moribund movie division. Sherry Lansing, Grey's predecessor, had a nice run of Oscar-winning blockbusters: Forrest Gump, Braveheart and a sea story called Titanic. But the past few years have been strewn with pricey duds, mostly aimed at adults. In a business where about 40% of the audience is under 25, you don't make movies for your friends...
That there was a thriving giant to hobble owes much to Eisner. Hired in 1984, he brought back the company--moribund and churning out flops like Tron--by turning out hit movies like Pretty Woman and Beauty and the Beast. The story gets good when things go bad, beginning in the early 1990s, as Disney falls to intracorporate civil war and Eisner's golden gut turns to lead. (Treasure Planet, anyone...
...Abbas sees a consensus with the militants over a ceasefire and a return to talks as the only viable way of restarting the moribund negotiation process towards a Palestinian state. The militants are playing along, at least for now, but reserving the right to resume attacks on Israel should the truce break down...
...biggest shock of all: the most hyped teen athlete of this century, who singlehandedly put high school basketball on national television, has actually exceeded the ungodly expectations set before him. He has resurrected the moribund Cavaliers and, in a season marred by an ugly melee in neighboring Michigan, perhaps the NBA as well. "The King James era is here," says Milwaukee Bucks head coach Terry Porter, who played against Jordan for much of his 17-year pro career. "You could argue that LeBron is kind of carrying the league right...
...Bush will repay the British Prime Minister's loyalty by throwing America's weight behind the search for Israeli-Palestinian peace. A grand gesture, such as the appointment of a special envoy, would help Blair at home, where the biggest obstacle to re-election next year isn't his moribund Conservative opposition but his own party's scorn for his unswerving allegiance to Bush's agenda. The gesture would also help rehabilitate Blair in Europe, where his basic argument - that by staying close to Bush he boosts the European Union's influence - is looking pretty threadbare...