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...adds up. And for months CEO Michael Eisner has been on the defensive in a suit brought by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who ran the film studio until he was pushed out in 1994, for a share of the company's profits. That could cost $500 million. After a palmy decade, Walt's successors are finding it's a jungle out there...
...John Ashbery '49, the man often called "the universal poet." He is sometimes referred to as "the Walt Whitman of our time" for his ability to find the sublime in the mundane and to transcend the personal to explain the shared sentiments of the nation...
...John Ashbery '49, the man often called "the universal poet." He is sometimes referred to as "the Walt Whitman of our time" for his ability to find the sublime in the mundane and to transcend the personal to explain the shared sentiments of the nation...
...hear that kind of bantering trash talk from the Universal and Disney camps. A Walt Disney World executive, alluding to the high-speed roller coasters at the center of I.O.A.'s promotion, calls them "theme rides without the theme." True enough for some rides. The Incredible Hulk Coaster is similar to slinky steel screamers in nearby Busch Gardens, though it has some jet-propulsive refinements. Another thrill ride, Dr. Doom's Fear Fall, is supposed to extract "raw human fear" from the brains of its strapped-in victims, but it's just a fresh version of the Big Shot...
...JEFFREY KATZENBERG, former Disney filmmaking big cheese; his ongoing lawsuit against Walt Disney Co.; in Los Angeles. A judge ruled that Katzenberg is owed a slice of the profits, plus interest, from films and related products he oversaw as Disney's studio chief from 1984 to 1994. The trial resumes this week to determine Katzenberg's compensation, which could hit the quarter-billion-dollar mark...