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...last year to create a firm called @Home; it plans to bring the Internet and its World Wide Web--along with programs like local news shows--to home computers via cable-TV wires at 500 times the speed of signals over conventional telephone lines. That could enable companies like Walt Disney and Time Warner to feed their movies and TV shows to computers over the Internet...
...more, sometimes much more. For boosting the Magic Kingdom's stock price 28% and orchestrating a $19 billion merger (the second largest in U.S. history) with Capital Cities/ABC, Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner took home a $14.8 million compensation package, outpacing his prior year's pay nearly 40%. Campbell Soup chairman David Johnson savored a raise to $6.6 million, a jump of 150%, as Campbell stock climbed more than 36%, to 60. After Rockwell International's stock price leaped nearly 50%, to 527/8, CEO Donald Beall pocketed a tidy $5.5 million, a 45% bump over '94. Charles Walgreen...
Biondi is the latest of several mega-media executives who have recently been toppled, with little or no warning, from major posts. Jeffrey Katzenberg, longtime chairman of Walt Disney Studios, left in 1994 after a falling-out with corporate chairman Michael Eisner. Michael Schulhof, head of Sony Corp.'s U.S. operations, was ousted last month after clashing with his Japanese bosses. Michael Fuchs, the longtime head of HBO and (for six months) chairman of the Warner Music Group, was fired in November by Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin...
...wouldn't be the Jackson family without sniping from LaToya, who first intimated that her brother might be faking it but, on hearing the doctors' reports, reversed herself. The concert was postponed, and Jackson's condition was improving, thanks clearly in part to the posters of Shirley Temple, Walt Disney and Topo Gigio that were brought to his room. Meanwhile, the besieged hospital set up a hotline with a taped message detailing Jackson's condition, updated daily and offering an opportunity for the word stable to be used in describing...
...DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS By Charles Solomon (Hyperion; $40). As productive as the studio was during Walt Disney's life (he died in 1966), many projects dear to his heart never made it to the screen. This book is a reverie on an art form whose possibilities were still being explored. The stars are not the fabled animators but the conceptual artists whose work they drew on. Here is Mickey way back when he was a rodent outlaw; drenching pastels of fairyland by Sylvia Holland; a surreal grand piano with a fierce trail of tyrannical music hovering above...