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Mike Ovitz's Pelican Brief
2008-04-10 18:01:00 A 38-year-old babe who started her career in a talent agency mailroom posts a plum gig at HBO. Sue Naegle named new entertainment czar. Sixteen years ago Miz Sue was an Armani suited agent-wannabe sorting mail in United Talent Agency's mailroom. LA TimesAnother Hollywood former bigshot who started in a talent agency mailroom isn't faring so well these days. This scandal isn't getting much play on the East Coast. It's the creepy corrupt private dick Anthony "Pelican" Pellicano's wiretapping and racketeering case that's already embarrassed some Hollywood A-listers. The plot so far: Once the most powerful man in Hollywood now Z-lister ex-"uberagent" (God I hate that uber thing!) paranoid psycho Mike Ovitz tells the court he paid Pellicano 150 grand to track two ink-stained wretches writing rotten things about him. One of the scribes, NYT's Bernard Weinraub. LA TimesWhat brought down Pellicano was the dead fish he left on the windshield of reporter Anita Busch's Audi in 2002. NY...
By: Chickaboomer
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner donates $1.75 million to Denison Universit
2008-02-16 12:30:00 GRANVILLE, Ohio - Former Walt Disney Co. CEO Michael Eisner has donated $1.75 million to Denison University to honor one of his favorite professors, the school said Friday.Eisner is a 1964 graduate of the liberal arts university i...
?WGA Strike Is Over? Claims Michael Eisner
2008-02-08 16:46:00 Michael Eisner, ex-head of Disney, has stated the WGA strike has been resolved and will soon be passed on to the wider writers members for official approval: “It’s over,” Eisner said. “They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It’s going on Saturday to the writers in general.” Eisner, speaking live on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” ...
By: Wild Bluff Media
I Call Bullshit
2008-02-08 16:34:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC_6175, originally... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com
The writers strike is over, says Michael Eisner
2008-02-08 04:04:00 Michael Eisner, Chief Executive Offer of the Walt Disney Corporation, reported today on CNBC’s Fast Money that a deal has been struck between the striking Writer’s Guild of America and the major media companies. Finally. I was about a week away from forgetting the storylines on The Office. CNBC link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/23057002- PS: Anyone know what to do ...
Michael Eisner 2.0
2007-08-27 20:17:00 The former Disney chief has reinvented himself as a New Media mogul
The Name's Eisner, Michael Eisner 2.0
2007-08-26 21:26:00 Michael Eisner 2.0 Do you remember Michael Eisner? the former CEO of Disney who did really great during the 80's and practically revitalized the company but blew it later with lagging results from the company as well as being criticized for turning the Walt Disney Company into a "rapacious, soul-less" company, and refusing to establish a clear succession plan, as well as a string of box-office movie failures starting in the year 2000.Well its been quite a while since we have heard anything about Disney's former chief Michael Eisner, but it seems now that he's up and about and doing quite well considering his Disney embarrassing ouster.Businessweek is running a story about Eisner's second coming, at 65 Eisner is trying to reinvent himself as a new media mogul running his new studio "Vuguru", Eisner is trying to join forces with some top companies in order to revitalize himself back to the entertainment business, such companies like baseball card maker Topps Co. (TOPP ) which Eisn...
By: Boldinvestors
Michael Eisner l?ex CEO di Disney ha lanciato Vuguru una nuova casa di prod
2007-03-14 09:30:00 Michael Eisner l'ex CEO di Disney ha annunciato lo scorso lunedi (12 marzo) la fondazione di una nuova società da lui condotta. Si chiama Vuguru e nasce finanziata da The Tornante Co., il fondo finanziario dello stesso Eisner. La missione di Vuguru è produrre ed acquisire contenuti per la rete, e per tutte le nuove distribuzioni digitali. |



