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When a helicopter carrying Frank Wells, president of the Walt Disney Co., crashed in Nevada on Easter Sunday, 1994, Hollywood whispered that the tragedy had taken Disney's heart with it. It also left the now 56-year-old Michael Eisner, the company's brilliant chief executive, lacking a confidant and a suitable successor. In the past four years, Eisner has entertained a number of pretenders to the throne, notably Michael Ovitz and Jeffrey Katzenberg, only to ultimately discard them--painfully and publicly...
...Mickey Mouse makes his debut in Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie...
ALLEN GINSBERG (1927-1997) He emerged during the somnolent American 1950s as a bardic reincarnation of Walt Whitman. His incantatory, long-lined verses were styled not for parlor reading or classroom study but for public performances, featuring himself. He provided the music for the Beat Generation and a vision of modern malaise: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...
...Walt Disney Co. is also taking to sea, a move that both scares and encourages this $7.5 billion industry. Disney is launching a pair of $370 million ships that will each carry 1,760 passengers when the vessels arrive later this year. (Construction snafus have delayed delivery of the first, the Disney Magic, from March to July.) Backed by a $130 million marketing budget, these floating Mouse traps will offer three- and four-day excursions as part of Disney World vacations. The good news is that Disney's money will sell the industry to a new generation of travelers...
...acres, Animal Kingdom, fourth of the Walt Disney World parks--after Magic Kingdom (opened 1971), EPCOT Center (1982) and Disney-MGM (1989)--is the biggest. The company hired 2,800 workers to build the park and 2,500 "cast members" (performing employees) to entertain and instruct all the visitors. As many as 10 million are expected the first year...