Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.
Eisner was born in Mount Kisco, New York, the son of Margaret (née Dammann) and Lester Eisner, Jr. His great-grandfather,Sigmund Eisner, was one of the first uniform suppliers to the Boy Scouts of America. He was raised on Park Avenue in Manhattan. He attended the Allen-Stevenson School kindergarten through ninth grade followed by The Lawrenceville School in tenth through his senior year and graduated from Denison University in 1964 with a B.A. in English. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and credits much of his accomplishments to his time at Keewaydin Canoe Camp for boys in Vermont.
After two brief stints at NBC and CBS, Barry Diller at ABC hired Eisner as Assistant to the National Programming Director. Eisner moved up the ranks, eventually becoming a senior vice president in charge of programming and development. In 1976, Diller, who had by then moved on to become chairman of Paramount Pictures, recruited Eisner from ABC and made him president and CEO of the movie studio. During his tenure at Paramount, the studio turned out such hit films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, the Star Trek film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Beverly Hills Cop, and hit TV shows such as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Cheers and Family Ties.
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991 he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He has also co-anchored CBS This Morning since January 2012. Rose, along with Lara Logan, has hosted the revived CBS classic Person to Person, a news program during which celebrities are interviewed in their homes, originally hosted from 1953 to 1961 by Edward R. Murrow.
Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina, the only child of Margaret Frazier and Charles Peete Rose, Sr., tobacco farmers who owned a country store. As a child, Rose lived above his parents' store in Henderson and helped out with the family business from age seven. Rose admitted in a Fresh Dialogues interview that as a child his insatiable curiosity was constantly getting him in trouble. A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University intending to pursue a degree with a pre-med track, but an internship in the office of Democratic North Carolina Senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics. Rose graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in history. At Duke, he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1968. He met his wife, Mary (née King), while attending Duke.
Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American film producer and movie studio chairman. He is best known as co-founder of Miramax Films. He and his brother Bob have been co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company, their film production company, since 2005. He won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for producing a variety of winning plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County.
Born in Flushing, New York, Weinstein and his younger brother, Bob, grew up in a Jewish family in New York City, residing in a housing co-op named Electchester. He graduated from John Bowne High School, and then the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Weinstein, along with his brother Bob Weinstein, and Corky Burger independently produced rock concerts as Harvey & Corky Productions in Buffalo through most of the 1970s. Both Weinstein brothers had grown up with a passion for movies and they nurtured a desire to enter the film industry. In the late 1970s, using profits from their concert promotion business, the brothers created a small independent film distribution company called Miramax, named after their parents - Miriam and Max. The company's first releases were primarily music-oriented concert films such as Paul McCartney's Rockshow. In the early 1980s Miramax acquired the rights to two British films of benefit shows filmed for human rights organization Amnesty International. Working closely with Martin Lewis, the producer of the original films, the Weinstein brothers edited the two films into one movie tailored for the American market. The resulting film was released as The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in May 1982 and it became Miramax's first hit. The movie raised considerable sums for Amnesty International and was credited by Amnesty with having helped to raise its profile in the US.
David M. Zaslav (born January 15, 1960) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Communications, a position he has held since January 2007 . He was previously an executive at NBC Universal.
After BS degree from State University of New York at Binghamton, he graduated with honors (JD) from Boston University School of Law in 1985, Zaslav started his career as an attorney with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Lieby and MacRae in New York. He joined NBC Universal in 1989 and went on to play an important role in the founding of CNBC in the same year, and later MSNBC in 1996. He remained President, Cable and Domestic TV and New Media Distribution, October 1999 to November 2006.
He has been pivotal behind the founding of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in 2011.
Michael Eisner on his departure as CEO of Walt Disney Productions - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Michael Eisner at The UP Experience 2010
Disney Sunday Movie - Michael Eisner introduces "Winnie the Pooh"
Michael Eisner, founder of the Tornante Company | Charlie Rose
Harvey Weinstein takes a shot at Michael Eisner, praises David Zaslav - Impact Players
Best of Disney-50 Years of Magic-Part 1-Eisner+Mickey Mouse
Communicore Weekly - Season Two Finale - Michael Eisner, Work In Progress, Main Street Marching Band
Dylan Ratigan Interviews Michael Eisner about Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed
Ask Jim Hill Ep. 2 - Jim Shares a Michael Eisner Story
Michael Eisner introduces Disney's Robin Hood
11 15 1998 ABC Wonderful World of Disney Open with Michael Eisner
An Evening with Reed Hastings, in Conversation with Michael Eisner
Super DuckTales Intro Featuring Michael Eisner (1989)
Michael Eisner - Failure is Part of Success
Kate Jackson: [offended by a script calling for the girls to go undercover as catsuit-wearing gentleman's club hostesses] We're private dicks, not purring pussies!
Fred Silverman: If it doesn't improve, or pulls low numbers, not even God will be able to save your angels.
Vice President ABC Standards and Practices: The issue is nipples.::Aaron Spelling: Nipples?::Vice President ABC Standards and Practices: We're seeing nipples. Noticable, conspicuous nipples. We can't put nipples on our network.::Aaron Spelling: You're referring to the fact that Farrah sometimes doesn't wear a bra?::Vice President ABC Standards and Practices: We counted seven episodes and nineteen instances in which nipples were clearly apparent.
Vice President ABC Standards and Practices: We must stop nipple protrusion on ABC.
David Doyle: You know, if, eh, if Time wanted to put Bosley on the cover, well, I'll give up my lunch hour.::ABC Marketing Executive: Yeah. Thanks.
Aaron Spelling: A wiser man than I once said: Imitation is the sincerest form of television. [laughs]
Lee Majors: I used to have a wife gave me great backrubs. Yeah, those were the days.::Farrah Fawcett-Majors: Let's not fight...::Lee Majors: She found another guy: Charlie. What's that som'bitch got that I don't?
David Doyle: [reacting to the news of Farrah Fawcett-Majors leaving the show] Well, first I'm checking my bank account, and then if we get cancelled, I'm gonna go burn her house down!
Plot
Former CAA power broker, Michael Ovitz is probably very sorry he ever decided to do that Vanity Fair interview. "My Dinner With Ovitz" is a pithy, yet epicurean tale of broken dreams, broken Hollywood power brokers (and broken knees). Lesson to be learned: Never, never mess with "The Gay Mafia!"
Keywords: david, dinner, gay-mafia, satire, spoof, young
Michael Eisner on his departure as CEO of Walt Disney Productions - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Michael Eisner at The UP Experience 2010
Disney Sunday Movie - Michael Eisner introduces "Winnie the Pooh"
Michael Eisner, founder of the Tornante Company | Charlie Rose
Harvey Weinstein takes a shot at Michael Eisner, praises David Zaslav - Impact Players
Best of Disney-50 Years of Magic-Part 1-Eisner+Mickey Mouse
Communicore Weekly - Season Two Finale - Michael Eisner, Work In Progress, Main Street Marching Band
Dylan Ratigan Interviews Michael Eisner about Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed
Ask Jim Hill Ep. 2 - Jim Shares a Michael Eisner Story
Michael Eisner introduces Disney's Robin Hood
11 15 1998 ABC Wonderful World of Disney Open with Michael Eisner
An Evening with Reed Hastings, in Conversation with Michael Eisner
Super DuckTales Intro Featuring Michael Eisner (1989)
Michael Eisner - Failure is Part of Success
Gene Simmons interview with Michael Eisner
Michael Eisner Interview
Michael Eisner on how SOAPnet developed - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Mr Boogedy Intro by Michael Eisner 1985
Michael Eisner Bride Of Boogedy Intro 1987
Ask Jim Hill Ep 15 - What Was Michael Eisner's Biggest Failure At Disney?
Michael Eisner introduces Young Harry Houdini
Kermit and Michael Eisner
HOW TO TURN MICHAEL EISNER INTO ZOMBOY
Around the World in 80 Days: Michael Eisner Premiere Interview
Eisner Show1
Michael Eisner on the sitcom "Ellen" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Conversations With Michael Eisner Interviewing Bette Midler
Michael Eisner on casting Cindy Williams on "Laverne & Shirley" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Converations With Michael Eisner- Bette Midler part 2
Michael Eisner on the development of "Happy Days" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Michael Eisner on how TV has changed and where it's headed - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Rainn Wilson meets Michael Eisner
Michael Eisner on the success of "The Golden Girls" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Michael Eisner CNBC 4-18-07
Norman Lear on Hot L Baltimore and how much Michael Eisner liked it, he never missed a taping
Little Mermaid art director and Disney concept artist Mike Peraza Interview