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There is a subtlety to being core. Some companies, including Jimmy-Z, Vision Street Wear, Mossimo and Gotcha, start out core but make a wrong turn. It can be an ill-conceived magazine advertising campaign (Mossimo). Or turning up in J.C. Penney's rather than the local skate shop (Jimmy-Z, Gotcha...
Soon after he left Disney, Katzenberg formed DreamWorks with David Geffen and Steven Spielberg. He raided a goodly portion of Disney talent, including Prince of Egypt producers Penney Finkelman Cox and Sandra Rabins and composer Hans Zimmer. He readily admits that The Prince of Egypt has a special resonance for him; one of his animators has even drawn a cartoon of Katzenberg as Moses confronting Eisner as Rameses. But it's not just a matter of personal vindication. Animation is such a key part of the DreamWorks business plan that many in the industry believe a failure by The Prince...
...TELEVISION Sr. Match Play Chall., ESPN, 2:00 p.m. W. Soccer NCAA Semis, ESPN2, 2:00 and 4:30 p.m. J.C. Penney Classic, ESPN, 4:00 p.m. Toledo at Marshall, ESPN2, 8:00 p.m. Australian Open, Golf Chan...
Were Halston alive today, he would probably sense a chilling deja vu in all this business uncertainty. His label's demise was precipitated by the launching of the Halston III line he created for J.C. Penney in 1983. Not only were sales disappointing, but upscale establishments like Bergdorf Goodman, spurning a line that was also available in middle-class department stores, pulled the whole label off their racks. After that debacle Halston's empire collapsed, and he eventually lost control of his name. The label remained dormant until three years ago, when Tropic Tex decided to start it up again...
...Didn't Die: When the oil refinery closed down in 1982, this boomtown went bust--22,000 of its 30,000 residents moved away, J.C. Penney and other retailers shut down, and arsonists torched parts of downtown. But in 1986 it joined the Main Street program, began renovating 200 buildings and cashed in on the "heritage tourism" craze (Okmulgee is the capital of the Muskogee Indian Nation...