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...Florida, designed to offer an interactive window, complete with crafts and indigenous entertainment, into 40 different cultures. Arab League members had threatened over the past week to launch a boycott of Disney products to protest the theme park?s designation of Jerusalem as Israel?s capital, prompting CEO Michael Eisner to give the assurance that the Holy City won?t be called anyone?s capital. It was reported Tuesday that Eisner had assured Saudi Arabia?s Prince Al Walid bin Talal, a major shareholder in EuroDisney, that the corporation would steer clear of the controversy. Last month, Burger King found...
...have to fear an Arab backlash at the ballot box when she stumps for New York votes by publicly urging her husband to recognize Jerusalem as Israel?s capital. But Disney stands to lose up to $150 million a year in an Arab boycott of its products. Despite Eisner?s assurances, Arab League officials are still demanding the right to inspect the "Millennium Village" before its opening to ensure that Islamic and Christian claims on Jerusalem are respected. And the site?s producers are left with the headache of creating an entertainment and education program that reconciles competing claims...
Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner, left, has commissioned millennial choral symphonies from two up-and-coming American composers, Michael Torke and Aaron Jay Kernis, center. Kurt Masur, right, and the New York Philharmonic will premiere them...
...corporate CEO increased fivefold since 1990 ? and last year alone the figure rose 36 percent, compared with a 2.7 percent increase in the average blue-collar wage. If you?re slaving away for the median employee?s annual income of $29,267, then the fact that Disney CEO Michael Eisner was paid $576 million last year is bound to get you whistling a Woody Guthrie tune. Never mind if you?re in the developing world and have have to swallow the fact that the combined worth of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Paul Allen ($156 billion) is greater than...
...Broadway. His team argued that these royalties could be virtually perpetual, as new markets and technologies opened. Disney was prepared to state that the big profits came only from the first cycle of theatrical and video release. But this suit was personal. Katzenberg often referred to Eisner as a father figure; Eisner had been his mentor for 19 years at Paramount and Disney. So he had to be stung by Eisner's offhand slur, in informal notes for an autobiography, that "I think I hate the little midget"--a remark notable not just for its animosity but also...