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Article: Eisner's Selective Memory.
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- Multichannel News
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- November 23, 1998
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If you like "tell-all" books about the entertainment business, don't even bother cracking Work in Progress, by Michael Eisner, chairman of The Walt Disney Co., and his co-author, journalist Tony Schwartz.
This 450-page tome is about as squeaky-clean and sanitized as Snow White and most of the other products and characters that come out of that hydra-headed media company.
But while it's no page-turner, plenty can be learned about the inner workings of show business from this autobiographical account of Eisner's longtime career.
It takes us through his not-so-humble beginnings, when -- via the connections of his wealthy New York family -- Eisner ...
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Article: ABC'S NOT DISNEY CHANNEL, NETWORK EXECUTIVES ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);
July 27, 1996 ;
691 words
... ... network and running an amusement park are two different things, and Harbert said he and Disney CEO Michael Eisner share that understanding. Eisner will be involved in some of the network's programming decisions. ``We run a division,'' Harbert ...
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