Topic: Roy Disney Resigns

[Rat_Boy]

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Not wanting to cause an arguement, But I have to wonder what Roy disney's relationship to Micheal Moore is.

I don't know, but Eisner took the "conservative" approach to funding Farenheit 911, leaving Disney an out if the Republicans hit this film with the same intensity as the Reagan show.

[Sirgod]

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Not wanting to cause an arguement, But I have to wonder what Roy disney's relationship to Micheal Moore is.

I don't know, but Eisner took the "conservative" approach to funding Farenheit 911, leaving Disney an out if the Republicans hit this film with the same intensity as the Reagan show.  

that is interesting, indeed. I know Moore hasn't made many friends in the republican party to say the least.

Stephen

[Toasty0]

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Toasty, enlighten us that do not know about the Disney family, I thought the founder was a good person? I dunno, he died when I was a kid, but I do remember how wonderful it was on a Sat or Sun night to watch the Disney show.  

Jack,

Are you familiar with the old studio system with regards to contract players and such? If you are then when I tell you that Walt's treatment of his animators and other help made the studio system look enlightened by comparison you should get a picture of just how grim this man who projected a fatherly figure publicly was.

Also, if my memory serves me correctly, it was Eisner who insisted on instituting "significant other" employee benefit and insurance coverage and it was Roy who fought him tooth and nail.

So you can see why I would find the portion I quoted as ringing hollow.

Best,
Jerry    

[Harlax]

There is a website which I have lost track of now which documents poor maintainance at the Parks.  Walt was a stickler for upkeep and many Disney fanatics feel that the current management is indeed trying to run them "on the cheap."

On the other hand, you can hardly characterize the $100 million buyout that Michael Ovitz got at the end of his brief and less than stellar time as a Disney VP as "on the cheap."  As my wife, a real Disney fanatic, said at the time -  "I'd have agreed not to work for them for a tenth of that!"

I'll go look for the site again and post it if I find it.

edit - here it is, though it appears not to have been updated in a while.

http://www.wdwblues.com/index.2.html