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...want to make sure [the committee] does notjust investigate, but sets up a clear plan," Changsaid. "We're going to be vigorous in making surethat the committee does not wither in the heat [ofthe summer...
Walt Disney's successors were terrified of tampering with what had been a winning formula. When contemplating new ideas, they constantly wondered aloud, "What would Walt have done?" During the 1970s, Disney's top executives allowed the creative side of the company to wither while they focused their attention on real estate development, which seemed a surer bet. This outraged the largest individual stockholder, the late Roy Disney's son, also named Roy, who owned 3% of the company. "I remember thinking that if that pattern went on much longer, the company would become a museum in honor of Walt...
...with a $2 billion bid, the CBS directors could not refuse. President Laurence Tisch, who pushed the sale as part of his back-to-broadcasting program for CBS, apparently contended that now was the right time for CBS to get out of the recording industry, since its profits might wither in an economic downturn. Sony seemed to be the ideal buyer, as the two companies have been partners for 20 years in a Japanese label, CBS/Sony...
...last extended bit of warmth I was to receive for much of the day was the train ride to New Haven. I stepped out of the station into a wind chill that would make the most rabid Green Bay Packer-Backer wither...
...living American artists whose latest show one would always feel eager to see. Susan Rothenberg is high on the list. At 42 she has survived the cultural gorge-and-puke of the early '80s, the manic starmaking and the pressure on immature talent -- all due, presumably, to wither in the hangover from the bull market. Rothenberg's anxious but unhurried cast of mind was somehow fortified in the pressure cooker. Her current show at New York City's Sperone Westwater gallery (through Nov. 14) is in some respects her best...