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by James B. Stewart


  Neumann, Spencer

  New Amsterdam Theatre

  New Line

  News Corporation

  Newsweek

  New York

  New Yorker

  New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

  New York Sun,

  New York Times Magazine

  A.C. Nielsen

  “Nightline”(TV show)

  Nightmare Before Christmas, The (film)

  “Nine Old Men,”

  Nixon, Richard

  “Nothing Sacred”(TV show)

  Nouvel, Jena

  Nunis, Richard (Dick):

  on Disney board

  theme parks and

  “NYPD Blue”(TV show)

  O’Donovan, Leo

  Ohga, Norio

  Ohlmeyer, Don

  Okun, Erwin

  Oliver! (Broadway musical)

  Oliver & Company (animated film)

  Olson, Ron

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

  101 Dalmatians (animated film)

  101 Dalmatians (live-action film)

  success of

  “Oprah”(TV show)

  Ordinary People (film)

  Oriental Land Company

  Orwall, Bruce

  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

  Otter in the Family, An (nature documentary)

  Outrageous Fortune (film)

  Ovitz, Judy

  in Aspen

  Eisner’s recruitment efforts and

  Jane Eisner’s friendship with

  Michael’s firing and

  in Sun Valley

  Ovitz, Michael

  ABC and

  animation and

  as the Antichrist

  art issues and

  in Aspen, at CAA

  compensation of

  as deal-maker

  on Disney board

  Disney office of

  as Disney president

  at Disney World

  Eisner’s betrayal of

  Eisner’s complaints to

  Eisner’s correspondence with

  Eisner’s delegation of distasteful tasks to

  Eisner’s health problems and

  Eisner’s recruitment of

  Eisner’s relationship with

  entertaining of

  fiftieth birthday of

  first major Disney crisis of

  foreign travel of

  gift-giving of

  Hollywood power of

  Hollywood Records and

  House of Blues affair and

  humiliation of

  Internet business and

  Katzenberg dispute and

  leaks and

  lying, unethical behavior, and untrustworthiness attributed to

  mistakes made by

  ousting of

  Roth’s relationship with

  Sony employment considered by

  successor issue and

  suicidal allegations about

  at Sun Valley

  Tarses’s sexual harassment charge and

  testimony of

  Universal deal of

  Wells’s complaints to

  Wells’s death and

  work habits of

  Oz, Mehmet

  Paley, William S.

  Paradis, Vanessa

  Paramount Pictures

  Diller’s resignation from

  Disney co-financing of projects at

  Disney remade in image of

  Eisner at

  Eisner’s manifesto at

  Katzenberg at

  TV production unit of

  Parent Trap, The (film)

  Parsons, Charlie

  Parsons, Richard

  Pearl Harbor (film)

  Pearlstine, Norman

  Pearson

  Pedowitz, Mark

  Perry, Matthew

  Pfeiffer, Bob

  Philbin, Regis

  Pierce, Fred

  Pierce, Morton

  Pinocchio (animated film)

  on home video

  re-release of

  Pirates of the Caribbean (film)

  Pixar Advanced Computer Graphics

  Pixar Animation Studios

  breakdown of Disney talks with

  Roth purchase proposal for

  Toy Story series and

  “Playmakers”(TV show)

  Pocahontas (animated film)

  Poitier, Sidney

  “Pomp and Circumstance”

  Popeye (musical version)

  Porky’s (film)

  pornography

  Powell, Anthony

  “Practice, The”(TV show)

  Predock, Antoine

  Premiere

  Pressler, Paul

  Pretty Woman (film)

  Priest (film)

  Prince

  Private Benjamin (film)

  product licensing

  product tie-ins

  profanity, in Disney films

  Project Snowball

  Protect Historic America

  Pruiksma, Dave

  Puck, Wolfgang

  Pulp Fiction (film)

  “Push, Nevada”(TV show)

  Putnam

  radio business

  Ragtime (musical)

  Raiders of the Lost Ark (film)

  railroads

  Rainwater, Richard

  Ramer, Bruce

  Random House

  Rattner, Steve

  Redford, Robert

  Redstone, Sumner

  Rehn, Trista

  Remember the Titans (film)

  Rent (musical)

  “repurposing”concept

  Resnick, Adam

  Retlaw

  Reynolds, Jonathan

  Rice, Tim

  Rich, Frank

  “Richard Cory”(Robinson)

  Rifkind, Arnold

  “Rip, Mix, Burn”advertising

  Ritter, John

  Robbins, David

  Roberts, Brian

  Roberts, Julia

  Robertson, Pat

  Robinson, Edwin Arlington

  Rochlis, Jeffrey

  Rock, The (film)

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  Rocketeer, The (film)

  Rose, Charlie

  “Roseanne”(TV show)

  Rosenthal, A. M.

  Ross, Scott

  Rossi, Aldo

  Rossio, Terry

  Roth, Eric

  Roth, Joe

  Braun’s relationship with

  Disney deal of

  Eisner’s complaints about

  at Fox

  live-action 101 Dalmatians and

  Ovitz’s deal-making and

  Ovitz’s hiring and

  Pixar proposal of

  resignation of

  successor issue and

  at Sun Valley

  Vogel’s relationship with

  Roth, Robert Jess

  “Royal Family, The”(TV show)

  Ruggels, Mary Jane

  Rummell, Peter

  Rush, Geoffrey

  Russell, Irwin

  on Disney board

  Eisner’s letters to

  Ovitz monitored by

  Ovitz’s firing and

  Ovitz’s hiring and

  testimony of

  Wells’s death and

  Saarinen, Eero

  Saban, Haim

  Sagal, Katey

  Sager, Carol Bayer

  Samuelson, Robert

  Santa Clause, The (film)

  Santa Clause 2, The (film)

  Santaniello, Joe

  Sarafina! (film)

  Sarbanes-Oxley Act

  satellite television

  Save Disney campaign

  Internet in

  proxy advisory services and

  rival annual meeting of

  SaveDisney.com

  Saving Private Ryan (film)

  Sawyer, Diane

  Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne)

&n
bsp; Scenes from a Mall (film)

  Schindler’s List (film)

  Schneider, Peter

  background of

  Broadway musicals and

  Disney interview of

  on impulse management

  live-action film and

  Pocahontas and

  resignation of

  Roger Rabbit and

  Roth’s resignation and

  Toy Story and

  warring factions and

  Schumacher, Thomas

  Broadway musicals and

  Eisner’s Senate testimony and

  Fantasia 2000 and

  Jobs’s talks with

  resignation as head of animation

  Toy Story and

  Schumer, Charles

  Schwartz, Stephen

  Schwartz, Tony

  Eisner’s book collaboration with

  Eisner’s confiding to

  science fiction

  Scorsese, Martin

  Scott, A. O.

  Seagram

  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

  filings with

  “Seinfeld”(TV show)

  Selleck, Tom

  Senate, U.S., Eisner’s testimony in

  September 11 attacks

  “700 Club, The”(TV show)

  sex, in Disney films

  sexual harassment

  Shakespeare, William

  Shamrock Holdings

  Shapiro, Angela

  Shapiro, Mark

  Shaye, Robert

  Shrek (animated film)

  Shrek 2 (animated film)

  Shubert Organization

  Shyamalan, M. Night

  Signs (film)

  Silver, Joel

  Silverman, Ben

  Silverman, Fred

  Simpson, Don

  Simpson, O. J.

  Sinatra, Nancy

  “singles and doubles”strategy

  “60 Minutes”(TV show)

  “$64,000 Question”(TV show)

  Sixth Sense, The (film)

  Sklar, Marty

  Sleeping Beauty (animated film)

  Smith, Larry

  Smith, Paul

  Snow Queen (animated film)

  Snow White

  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (animated film)

  home video and

  premiere of

  Snyder, Richard

  SOAPnet (soap opera)

  Sondheim, Stephen

  “Son of Hollywood’s Hottest

  Stars” (Schwartz)

  Sony Corporation

  Ovitz’s consideration of job with

  Sopranos, The”(TV show)

  Spelling, Aaron

  Spielberg, Steven

  DreamWorks and

  “ER”and

  Ovitz’s entertaining and

  Roger Rabbit and

  “Spin City”(TV show)

  Splash (film)

  “Splash Mountain”attraction

  Spyglass Entertainment

  Staggs, Tom

  Family channel and

  Glass, Lewis proceeding and

  Stainton, David

  Stallone, Sylvester

  Stanfill, Dennis

  Starwave

  “Steamboat Willie”(cartoon)

  Steig, William

  Steinberg, Saul

  Stern, Howard

  Stern, Robert

  on Disney board

  Stewart, Jon

  Stewart, Martha

  stock, Disney

  Bass holdings of

  Buffett’s purchase of

  Cap Cities/ABC deal and

  Comcast bid and

  corporate raiders and

  executive options for

  Internet mania and

  Roy E.’s holdings in

  September 11 attacks and

  stock market:

  Internet mania and

  September 11 attacks and

  stores, Disney

  Burke’s running of

  strategic-planning department

  Family channel and

  Internet ventures and

  Streets of Fire (film)

  Streisand, Barbra

  Suarez, Flody

  suicide

  Sun Microsystems

  Sunset Boulevard (play)

  Sun Valley entertainment conferences

  “Survivor”(TV show)

  “Survivor: The Australian Outback”(TV show)

  Sweeney, Anne

  Tagliabue, Paul

  Tarantino, Quentin

  Tarses, Jamie

  firing of

  Hirschberg’s article about

  sexual harassment allegations and

  Tarzan (animated film)

  Tarzan (musical)

  taxes

  Taxin, Greg

  Taylor, Brigham

  Taylor, Lawrence

  Taymor, Julie

  Team Disney building

  team unity:

  Eisner’s view on

  Ovitz’s views on

  technology group

  technology stocks

  Tele-TV

  television

  animation on

  Disney’s increased production for

  in Europe

  Frank as Disney head of

  Hightower as Disney head of

  network

  see also specific networks

  Paramount production unit for

  Roth as Disney head of

  see also cable television; satellite television; specific companies and shows

  Terminator 2 (film)

  Terms of Endearment (film)

  “That’s Incredible”(TV show)

  theme parks

  admission prices at

  in Asia

  cast training at

  cleanliness of

  as money makers

  Roy E.’s views on

  terrorist threat and

  see also Disneyland; Disney World; Euro Disney

  Thief and the Cobbler, The (animated film)

  Three Men and a Baby (film)

  Three Men and a Little Lady (film)

  Time

  Time Inc.

  Times Square Redevelopment Project

  Time Warner

  AOL’s merger with

  Bollenbach’s acquisition plan and

  Disney’s cable-access dispute with

  Tisch, Billie

  Tisch, Larry

  Tishman, John

  Titanic (film)

  “Today Show”(TV show)

  Roy E. on

  To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

  Tokyo Disneyland

  TokyoSea

  Tolkien, J. R. R.

  “Tonight Show”(TV show)

  Touchstone Pictures

  merger of

  TV studio of

  Toy Story (animated film)

  Toy Story 2 (animated film)

  Toy Story 3 (animated film)

  Travolta, John

  Treasure Island (animated film)

  Treasure Planet (animated film)

  “Triangle of Success”campaign

  Trois Hommes et un Couffin (film)

  Tron (film)

  Trump, Donald

  Trump (Trump and Schwartz)

  Tschumi, Bernard

  Turner, Richard

  Turner, Ted

  Turner Broadcasting

  Twentieth Century Fox

  “20/20”(TV show)

  20/20 plan

  25th Hour (film)

  “Under the Sea”(song)

  United Artists

  Universal

  Grey’s deal with

  Ovitz’s discussions with

  Universal Studios

  U.S. News & World Report

  Valenti, Jack

  Valentine, Dean

  Van de Kamp, Andrea

  on Disney board

  Van de Kamp, John

  van der Rohe, Mies

&n
bsp; Vanishing Prairie, The (nature documentary)

  Vanity Fair

  Variety

  Venturi, Robert

  Verbinski, Gore

  Vermont, Eisner farm in

  Verrier, Richard

  “vertical integration”strategy

  Viacom

  video

  see also home video

  Vigier, Jean-Paul

  Virgin Records

  Vogel, David

  Katzenberg’s ouster and

  live-action 101 Dalmatians and

  resignation of

  Roth’s relationship with

  Schneider’s criticism of

  Wachtell, Herbert

  Walker, E. Cardon

  on Disney board

  as Disney chairman

  Roy E. dubbed “idiot nephew”by

  Wallace, Mike

  Wallace, Randall

  Wallau, Alex

  Walt Disney Company:

  ABC acquired by

  annual meeting of (2004)

  annual report and balance sheet of

  anti-Semitism at

  board of, see board of directors, Disney

  books about

  Comcast bid for

  creation of

  diversity at

  DreamWorks vs.

  earnings growth at

  ebbing of creative energy at

  family orientation at

  financial decline of

  firings at

  Fox Family acquired by

  hostile takeover attempts against

  Internet ventures and

  lawsuits of

  leisurely pace at

  live-action film revived at

  mandatory retirement age at

  Miramax acquired by

  NBC acquisition attempt by

  Paramount projects co-financed by

  plane of

  publishing division of, see Hyperion

  reorganization of

  separation of chairman and chief executive titles at

  September 11 attacks and

  stock of, see stock, Disney

  strategic planning at, see strategic-planning department

  “survival of the fittest culture”at

  technology group at

  Time Warner’s cable-access dispute with

  transformation of

  TV network acquisition sought by

  Walt Disney Concert Hall

  Walt Disney Pictures

  Walt Disney Productions

  Walt Disney Studios

  Walters, Barbara

  Warner, Jack

  Warner Bros.

  Warner Communications

  Wasserman, Lew

  Watson, Ray, Jr.

  Watson, Ray, Sr.

  on Disney board

  as Disney chairman

  Eisner defended by

  Eisner’s correspondence with

  Weaver, Sigourney

  WED Company

  Weill, Sandy

  Weinraub, Bernard

  Weinstein, Bob

  Weinstein, Harvey

  Cold Mountain and

  Fahrenheit 9/11 and

  Weiss, Al

  Welch, Jack

  Wells, Briant

  Wells, Frank

  animation and

  compensation of

  death of

  Disney’s hiring of

  Eisner’s blaming of

  Eisner’s complaints to

  Eisner’s discussion of reorganization with

  Eisner’s relationship with

  firings carried out by

  home video and

  Katzenberg’s deal and

  Kinsey’s relationship with

  live-action film and

  as mediator

 

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