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Disneywar by james b stewart5/21/2023 Far more suffocatingly, Stewart sat through a few staff meetings with his book’s subject, Disney chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, and had to hear him grouse about the productivity of his contracted talent (“Can we get three hits out of Elton?” Eisner snapped), shoot down a notion about remaking Rapunzel (“Someone told me a woman with long hair is old-fashioned,” fearless-leader says gnomically), but then get excited about a potential movie called Snow Queen, in which, one nervous serf explains, the title character is “a terrible bitch” whose heart is “melted” by “a regular guy.” “This is perfect!” Eisner exults. The author, a former reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, nearly fainted from heat exhaustion when he pulled a George Plimpton and wore a big, heavy Goofy costume, ambling around Disney World for a research shift of being kissed and screamed at by kiddies. Stewart deserves every penny he can squeeze out of DisneyWar. What can you say about a head of the Disney empire who’d lie to Larry King about where Walt Disney is buried? A hell of a lot, it turns out.
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