Just digging through my old Eisner posts, and thought I might re-post this image.



Got Eisner's book Camp from the library today. No, he's not writing about gay sensibilities, it's about his time at summer camp as a teenager. It was supposed to come out last year, just as the Save Disney shitstorm started. I have no idea why it came out at all -- as if anyone in Hollywood (or anywhere, for that matter) will listen to life lessons from Michael Eisner at this point. I can't wait to read it.

This Helter Stupid moment brought to you by James Randi's web site:

One of my most popular sites deals in nothing but incorrect descriptions of attractions and events at Disneyland. On one page, I discuss how Snow White threatened to sue Disney when an apple she was given turned out to be poisonous. A while back, I received an e-mail from a producer at NBC asking how she could get in contact with the person mentioned on my site because she was working on a news story about food poisoning at amusement parks. I swear – NBC wrote to me for Snow White's phone number. I will never watch television news the same way again.

I'm not sure, but the web site in question might be Disney Lies.

From thestreet.com:

Longtime Disney chief Michael Eisner has given up his seat on the company board, something the controversial media leader was not expected to do until next year.

The resignation came on the same day that his successor Robert Iger took the helm at the Burbank, Calif., company Eisner had run for over 20 years. Eisner's contract stipulated that he could serve in a consulting capacity following the end of his term as chief executive.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said "on September 30, 2005, Michael D. Eisner tendered his resignation from the Board of Directors of the Registrant, effective immediately. Mr. Eisner's status as Chief Executive Officer of the Registrant ended at the conclusion of the Registrant's fiscal year on October 1, 2005, and he no longer provides any services for the Registrant."

My girlfriend -- three time Nye County spelling champ from 1979 to 1981 -- seems to be the only person who noticed that I incorrectly spelled "bosoms" in my recent post about the Virtual Magic Kingdom.

Just for the record, neither "bosoms" nor "bosums" is allowed.

Kim Masters, author of Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everyone Else has this to say about eisnerdammerung, in Slate magazine:

How I will miss Michael Eisner—my Moby Dick, my Great White. In a world where the studios are run by suits, Eisner was an executive who carried himself like a Hollywood mogul. He didn't own Disney but, by God, he acted as though he did. The judge in that shareholder case in Delaware put it best: Eisner's conduct was "imperial" and "Machiavellian." He had acted as "the omnipotent and infallible monarch of his personal Magic Kingdom." You just don't get media barons like that any more.