Knowlton, Christopher. “How Disney Keeps the Magic Going.” Fortune, December 4, 1989.
Leerhsen, Charles. “How Disney Does It.” Newsweek, April 3, 1989.
Masters, Kim. “Bunny Hop.” Premiere, July 1988.
Four
Boyer, Peter J. “Katzenberg’s Seven-Year Itch.” Vanity Fair, November 1991.
Ebert, Roger. “Sweetly Innocent ‘Woman’ Glows with True Romance.” Chicago Sun-Times, March 23, 1990.
Kerwin, Kathleen, and Antonio N. Fins. “Disney Is Looking Just a Little Fragilistic.” Business Week, June 25, 1990.
Maslin, Janet. “Andersen’s ‘Mermaid,’ by Way of Disney.” New York Times, November 15, 1989.
———. “ ‘Beauty and the Beast’: New Form and Content.” New York Times, November 13, 1991.
Five
Crary, David. “Weather Is Cold, President Tepid, But Mickey’s Welcome Warm.” Associated Press, April 13, 1992.
Drozdiak, William. “Cheers, Jeers Greet Disney Debut in Europe.” Washington Post, April 13, 1992.
Hopkins, Nic. “Euro Disney’s New Studio Park Puts It in the Red.” The Times (London), November 14, 2002.
Rose, Frank. “Can Disney Tame 42nd Street?” Fortune, June 24, 1996.
Six
“Disney Roars in Kingdom of Movie Merchandise Marketing: The Entertainment Giant Could Reap $800 Million in Pretax Profits Over Three Years from the Sale of ‘Lion King’–related Items.” Reuters, August 11, 1994.
Maslin, Janet. “The Hero Within the Child Within.” New York Times, June 15, 1994.
Newton, Edmund, and James Bates. “Disney President Wells Killed in Copter Crash.” Los Angeles Times, April 4, 1994.
Turner, Richard. “Jungle Fever: Disney, Using Cash and Claw, Stays King of Animated Movies.” Wall Street Journal, May 16, 1994.
Weinraub, Bernard. “A Shock for Disney, but No Turmoil.” New York Times, April 5, 1994.
Seven
Auletta, Ken. “The Human Factor.” New Yorker, September 26, 1994.
Citron, Alan, and James Bates. “For Roy Disney, Legacy Is Everything.” Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1994.
Eller, Claudia, and Alan Citron. “Angst at Disney’s World.” Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1994.
Reckard, E. Scott. “Eisner Illness Provokes New Debate on Disney Future.” Associated Press, July 19, 1994.
Weinraub, Bernard. “Hollywood Sees Tension at Disney.” New York Times, July 20, 1994.
———. “Katzenberg Leaving Post at Disney; Studio Head Is 2nd Top Executive Lost.” New York Times, August 25, 1994.
Eight
Auletta, Ken. “Awesome.” New Yorker, August 14, 1995.
De Moraes, Lisa. “Three Outs Strike Dis; Hightower in for Frank.” Hollywood Reporter, March 13, 1995.
Fabrikant, Geraldine. “Walt Disney to Acquire ABC in $19 Billion Deal to Build a Giant for Entertainment.” New York Times, August 1, 1995.
Harris, Kathryn. “The Loneliest Man in the Kingdom: Forget Walt, Michael Eisner, Disney’s Hands-on Chairman, Is Shaping the Company in His Own Image.” Los Angeles Times Magazine, March 26, 1995.
Hofmeister, Sallie, and Jane Hall. “Disney to Buy Cap Cities/ABC for $19 Billion.” Los Angeles Times, August 1, 1995.
Huey, John. “Eisner Explains Everything.” Fortune, April 17, 1995.
Landro, Laura, Elizabeth Jensen, and Thomas R. King, “Disney Creates a New Magic Kingdom.” Wall Street Journal, August 1, 1995.
Powers, William F. “Eisner Says Disney Won’t Back Down.” Washington Post, June 14, 1994.
Spayd, Liz, and Paul Farhi. “Eisner Ended Disney Plan; Chairman Saw Park Fight Harming Company’s Image.” Washington Post, September 30, 1994.
Swoboda, Frank. “Disney Ends Negotiations to Buy NBC.” Washington Post, September 27, 1994.
Weinraub, Bernard. “Katzenberg to Form Studio with Geffen and Spielberg.” New York Times, October 12, 1994.
———. “Clouds Over Disneyland.” New York Times, April 9, 1995.
Nine
Anson, Robert Sam. “Geffen Ungloved.” Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 1995.
Ebert, Roger. “Brilliant Animation Makes ‘Toy’ a Feast for the Eyes.” Chicago Sun-Times, November 22, 1995.
Groves, Martha, and James Flanigan. “Ovitz Ideal Pick for Global Giant.” Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1995.
Guthrie, Julian. “Pixie Dust: Can Steve Jobs Take Another Bite Out of the Apple with ‘Toy Story’?” San Francisco Examiner, November 12, 1995.
Snider, Burr. “The ‘Toy Story’ Story: How John Lasseter Came to Make the First 100-Percent Computer-Generated Theatrical Motion Picture.” Wired, December 1995.
Ten
Burrough, Bryan, and Kim Masters. “The Mouse Trap.” Vanity Fair, December 1996.
Eller, Claudia. “Rumor Mills Grinding over Ovitz Exit.” Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1996.
———. “Awful Truth: Is Lying a Practiced Art in Hollywood?” Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1997.
Hirschberg, Lynn. “Jamie Tarses’ Fall, as Scheduled.” New York Times Magazine, July 13, 1997.
Nathan, Jean. “What China Would Bury in Moroccan Sand.” New York Times, December 22, 1996.
Zoglin, Richard. “A Better Mousetrap? With Disney Ready to Rebuild Things, ABC Braces for Change and Lots of Trips to Space Mountain.” Time, April 15, 1996.
Eleven
Bates, James, and Claudia Eller. “Ovitz to Leave Disney After Rocky Year as President.” Los Angeles Times, December 13, 1996.
———. “Disney’s Michael Eisner Is Alone Again, Naturally.” Los Angeles Times, December 14, 1996.
Boehm, Mike. “A Rocky Road, Step by Step: Disney Hall Is Here, But It Wasn’t Easy.” Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2003.
Burrough, Bryan. “Ovitz Agonizes.” Vanity Fair, August 2002.
Canby, Vincent. “ ‘The Lion King’ Earns Its Roars of Approval.” New York Times, November 23, 1997.
Eller, Claudia. “Disney’s Spreading of Financial Risk Made ‘Sense’ Then.” Los Angeles Times, August 31, 1999.
Gay, Verne. “Not Changing Channels; Embattled ABC Exec Tarses Staying Put.” Newsday (New York), July 24, 1997.
Jenkins, Holman W., Jr. “Beavis and Butt-head Do the Disney Shareholders.” Wall Street Journal, January 7, 1997.
Orwall, Bruce. “Disney Says Michael Ovitz Is Resigning as President; Decision Is Called Mutual; Move Rekindles Issue of a Successor to Eisner.” Wall Street Journal, December 13, 1996.
Orwall, Bruce, and Joann S. Lublin. “Plutocracy: If a Company Prospers, Should Its Directors Behave by the Book?; Disney’s Eisner Shoots Back at Critics Who Say Board Isn’t Truly Independent.” Wall Street Journal, February 24, 1997.
Rosenthal, A. M. “Hardtack for the Journey.” New York Times, December 20, 1996.
Samuelson, Robert J. “What’s $90 Million Between Friends?” Washington Post, December 25, 1996.
Weinraub, Bernard. “Down but Probably Not Out; Despite His Defeat in Disneyland, Ovitz Remains a Force to Reckon With.” New York Times, December 14, 1996.
Twelve
Bates, James, and Claudia Eller. “Empire Builders.” Los Angeles Times Magazine, March 26, 2000.
Bowman, Lisa. “Jailbait and Switch.” ZDWire, April 1, 2000.
Brenner, Marie. “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” Vanity Fair, May 1996.
Carter, Bill. “Olympic-Caliber Performance.” New York Times, November 24, 1999.
———. “From Creator of ‘C.S.I.,’ Testimonials to Himself.” New York Times, August 11, 2003.
De Moraes, Lisa. “ ‘Millionaire’s’ Clean Sweeps.” Washington Post, November 17, 1999.
Dreher, Rod. “Very Good ‘Sense’: Word-of-Mouth Lifts Scary Film.” New York Post, August 23, 1999.
Fabrikant, Geraldine. “Hey There! Hi There! It’s a New Michael Eisner; Disney Leader Woos a Fretful Wall Street.” New York Times, August 18, 1999.
Hansell, Saul. “Mouse Att
ack in Cyberspace.” New York Times, December 13, 1998.
Harris, Kathryn. “Best of Bloomberg.” Chicago Sun-Times, May 9, 1999.
Jenkins, Holman W., Jr. “Mouse Gets a Whiff of Waterloo.” Wall Street Journal, May 19, 1999.
Jensen, Elizabeth, and Brian Lowry. “ABC Losing Key Television Personnel.” Los Angeles Times, August 25, 1999.
Krantz, Michael. “Disney’s Brain Drain: Some of Eisner’s Top Executives Have Shipped Out, but the Company’s Profit Machine Rolls On.” Time, June 15, 1998.
Lowry, Brian. “Tarses Resigns as Head of ABC Entertainment.” Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1999.
Morgenstern, Joe. “What? A Good Sequel? A Brilliant ‘Toy Story 2’ Proves It Can Happen.” Wall Street Journal, November 26, 1999.
Orwall, Bruce. “Hostility Between Disney’s Eisner and Katzenberg Explodes in Court.” Wall Street Journal, May 5, 1999.
Rich, Frank. “Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Millionaire.” New York Times, November 20, 1999.
Thirteen
Carter, Bill. “Britons Revamp American TV.” New York Times, July 18, 2000.
Eller, Claudia, and James Bates. “Disney, Pixar in Dispute Over Pact.” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2001.
Eller, Claudia, and Richard Natale. “Hit Status Elusive Target for ‘Pearl Harbor’; Disney’s Hopes for Its Own ‘Titanic’ Have Been Sunk.” Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2001.
Gabler, Neal. “Win Now, or Lose Forever.” New York Times, May 3, 2000.
Greppi, Michele. “Execs Spin the Positives as Key Nov. Sweep Ends.” Hollywood Reporter, November 29, 2000.
Hansell, Saul. “America Online Agrees to Buy Time Warner for $165 Billion; Media Deal Is Richest Merger.” New York Times, January 11, 2000.
Holden, Stephen. “Old Sorcery, New Tricks.” New York Times, December 31, 1999.
James, Meg, and Sallie Hofmeister. “This Family Was Really Messed Up: Michael Eisner Saw a Gem When Disney Paid $5 Billion for a Kids Cable Channel.” Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2004.
Rich, Frank. “The Best Years of Our Lives.” New York Times, May 26, 2001.
Rosenberg, Howard. “The Day the World Shattered; a Junket That Will Live in Infamy.” Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2001.
Welkos, Robert W. “Marshalling All of His Forces.” Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2001.
Fourteen
Bates, James, and Claudia Eller. “Key Disney Board Members Are Putting Heat on the CEO to Act More Aggressively; Shares Are Lowest Since November 1994.” Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2002.
Bates, James, and Richard Verrier. “Eisner Crimping His Own Style.” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2002.
Carter, Bill. “ABC’s ‘Millionaire’ May Not Survive Beyond the Current Season.” New York Times, November 29, 2001.
———. “Koppel Is the Odd Man Out as ABC Woos Letterman.” New York Times, March 1, 2002.
———. “Networks Try to Sell Letterman on Conglomerate Muscle.” New York Times, March 8, 2002.
———. “Letterman Will Remain in CBS Slot.” New York Times, March 12, 2002.
Dolan, Kerry A. “Beyond Power Rangers: Billionaire Haim Saban Revels in the Sweet Deal He Got From Fox and Disney.” Forbes, November 26, 2001.
Goodman, Tim. “Who Wants to Be a TV Programmer? ABC’s Pompous Executives Put All Their Money on ‘Millionaire’ and Lost Big.” San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 2001.
Gunther, Marc, and Noshua Watson. “Has Eisner Lost the Disney Magic?” Fortune, January 7, 2002.
Hofmeister, Sallie, and Brian Lowry. “No Happy Ever After for ABC in Disney Saga.” Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2002.
Holson, Laura M. “As Disney Loses Steam, Insider Loses Patience.” New York Times, August 18, 2002.
Holson, Laura M., and Bill Carter. “Disney’s Chief Seems Cool on a Hot Seat.” New York Times, February 15, 2002.
Merzer, Martin, Lenny Savino, and Kevin Murphy. “Disney Sites, Sears Tower on Terrorists’ Study Lists.” Miami Herald, October 13, 2001.
Morgenson, Gretchen, and Riva D. Atlas. “Bass Family, in Need of Money, Forced to Sell 6.4% of Disney.” New York Times, September 21, 2001.
Starr, Michael. “ ‘Millionaire’ Doesn’t Want Me: Regis.” New York Post, November 30, 2001.
Fifteen
Auletta, Ken. “Beauty and the Beast.” New Yorker, December 16, 2002.
Bianco, Robert. “ ‘Lost’ Fits into ABC’s Bad Year.” USA Today, April 1, 2003.
Boedeker, Hal. “The Guy Who Saved ABC.” Orlando Sentinel, January 15, 2003.
Drudge, Matt. “Mickey’s Millions: Disney to Finance Michael Moore’s New Bush-Bashing Documentary.” Drudge Report, May 11, 2003.
Ebert, Roger. “Movie Turns ‘Lizzie’ into Britney Wannabe.” Chicago Sun-Times, May 2, 2003.
———. “A Wild Ride: Johnny Depp Takes ‘Pirates’ Over the Top in Great Swashbuckling Tradition, but the Film Goes on Forever.” Chicago Sun-Times, July 9, 2003.
Elder, Robert K. “ ‘Treasure for the Eyes, but Disney’s Latest Gets Lost in Space.” Chicago Tribune, November 27, 2002.
Flint, Joe. “Outside the Lines: ESPN’s Risky New Game Plan.” Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2003.
Gliatto, Tom, and Lorenzo Benet. “Wonderful Company.” People, September 29, 2003.
Grover, Ronald. “Harvey on the Line: With Disney Breathing Down His Neck, Miramax’s Weinstein Needs a Hit.” Business Week, November 11, 2002.
Johnson, Reed, and Gina Piccalo. “Hollywood Has Fine Romance with Gehry’s Sound Palace.” Los Angeles Times, October 26, 2003.
Mitchell, Elvis. “Mascara as Black as a Jolly Roger.” New York Times, July 9, 2003.
Nelson, Emily, and Bruce Orwall. “Change of Season: Desperate for a Hit, ABC Is Refocusing on Middle America.” Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2002.
Orwall, Bruce. “A Dilemma for Duff and Disney; ‘Lizzie’s’ Success, Teen Star’s Goals Seem to Be on Opposite Tracks.” Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2003. Scott, A. O. “ ‘Treasure Island’ Flies into Neurosis.” New York Times, November 27, 2002.
Verrier, Richard, and James Bates. “Disney Board Endorses Steps to Turn Company Around.” Los Angeles Times, September 25, 2002.
Verrier, Richard, and Claudia Eller. “ ‘Treasure Planet’: A Disney Dud in the Making for a Long Time.” Los Angeles Times, December 9, 2002.
Weiner, Allison Hope. “Lizzie Tizzy: Why Did Tween Star Hilary Duff Blow Off Disney’s Lizzie McGuire?” Entertainment Weekly, June 13, 2003.
Sixteen
Bates, James. “Eisner Comment on Disney Grave Site Raises Questions.” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2004.
———. “Disney’s Daughter: Eisner Must Go.” Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2004.
Carter, Bill. “Eisner’s Top-Down Style Hobbled ABC.” New York Times, March 7, 2004.
Emshwiller, John R., and Joann S. Lublin. “The Battle for Disney: Ex-Senator Mitchell to Play Big Role in Disney Bid.” Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2004.
Grant, Peter, and Bruce Orwall. “Disney, Struggling to Regain Glory, Gets $48.7 Billion Bid from Comcast.” Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2004.
———. “Comcast’s Secret Efforts to Win Over Board May Hurt Takeover Bid.” Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2004.
Holson, Laura M. “2nd Member of Board Resigns at Disney.” New York Times, December 2, 2003.
———. “Disney Board Adopts Rules That Affect Leadership.” New York Times, January 7, 2004.
———. “Pixar Sees End to Its Disney Partnership.” New York Times, January 30, 2004.
Holson, Laura M., and Andrew Ross Sorkin. “Valuing Disney: What Is a Mouse Worth?” New York Times, February 13, 2004.
King, Susan. “Poignant Salute to Ritter.” Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2003.
Orwall, Bruce. “Roy Disney Quits Company Board and Calls on Eisner to Resign.” Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2003.
———. “CalPERS to Withhold Voting for Eisner,” Wall St
reet Journal, February 26, 2004.
Orwall, Bruce, and Joann S. Lublin. “Disney’s Dissidents Didn’t Block Moves They Now Criticize.” Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2004.
Solomon, Deborah. “Reanimated.” New York Times Magazine, February 22, 2004.
Stanley, Alessandra. “No Simple Rules for Dealing with Death.” New York Times, November 5, 2003.
Seventeen
Carter, Bill. “Disney Is Said to Be Considering a Managerial Shake-up at ABC.” New York Times, April 6, 2004.
Grant, Peter, and Bruce Orwall. “Dwarfed: Disney’s Eisner Steps Down from Chairman Post After Protest Garners 43% of Voted Shares.” Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2004.
Gunther, Marc. “Eisner’s Last Act.” Fortune, March 8, 2004.
Holson, Laura M. “Defied in Vote, Disney Leader Loses One Post.” New York Times, March 4, 2004.
———. “Disney in Talks on Independence for a Weinstein.” New York Times, August 10, 2004.
James, Meg. “ABC Network May Oust Top Programmer.” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2004.
Magill, Ken. “Disney Shareholders Rally to Attack CEO Eisner.” New York Sun, March 3, 2004.
Mitchell, Elvis. “A Western with Watercolor Vistas and a Passel of Parody.” New York Times, April 2, 2004.
Mnookin, Seth. “How Harvey Weinstein Survived His Midlife Crisis (for Now).” New York, October 11, 2004.
Orwall, Bruce. “Eisner’s Critics Keep Up Pressure at Walt Disney.” Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2004.
———. “End of the Ride: Disney’s Eisner Will Quit in 2006 After Surviving Bruising Battles.” Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2004.
Orwall, Bruce, and Joann S. Lublin. “Disney’s Eisner Says He Plans to Stay as CEO.” Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2004.
———. “The Job of No. 2 Just Got Harder for Disney’s Iger.” Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2004.
Orwall, Bruce, and Brian Steinberg. “Disney Meeting: New Adventures in Dissidentland.” Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2004.
Rutenberg, Jim. “Disney Is Blocking Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush.” New York Times, May 5, 2004.
Scott, A. O. “Unruly Scorn Leaves Room for Restraint, but Not a Lot.” New York Times, June 23, 2004.
Verrier, Richard, and James Bates. “Disney’s Eisner Loses Top Post, Stays as CEO.” Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2004.
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