Michael Eisner's track record at Disney is a bit like this, argues Mr Lucier.
This week, Disney Corporation CEO Michael Eisner unveiled the park's newest attraction: Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters.
But few people in Hollywood believe Iger will succeed Michael Eisner--a not-so-subtle slight to both men.
Michael Eisner would cringe to be included, but at 57, he is no spring chicken.
In the late 1980s he helped Michael Eisner turn Disney around as head of the company's studio.
It is hard enough for the big boys, as Disney's tortured attempts to replace Michael Eisner can attest.
Take the case of Disney where Michael Eisner stepped in as CEO and chairman rescuing the company in 1984.
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's annual conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in July, Saban met with Michael Eisner, Peter Chernin and Rupert Murdoch.
Disney chairman Michael Eisner said an announcement might be made soon on a deal involving the Jim Henson Company.
Both are calling for the removal of chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner.
Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman and CEO, said the agreement prepared "an even more ambitious role" for Disney on the Internet.
The now legendary fall-out between former Disney boss Michael Eisner and one-time protege Jeffrey Katzenberg garnered headlines and lawyer.
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Shareholders have criticised the management - particularly chief executive Michael Eisner - while cable provider Comcast is vying to take Disney over.
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Kenneth Langone, who played a critical role in the founding of Home Depot, and former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner were among his many well-known clients.
The fact it's backed by Vuguru, the indie studio set up by former Disney chief Michael Eisner, shows the diversity of people getting involved in this platform.
Michael Eisner wrote an autobiography a couple of years ago, and nobody reading that tight-lipped, self-congratulatory volume could have concluded that he was a likeable sort of guy.
Michael Eisner formerly with Walt Disney, suffer for doing so.
To make sure that our money supply was cut off, in an unprecedented move, UMG sued not only the company, but our investors (Michael Eisner, Art Bilger, and Spark Capital) personally.
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Microsoft also recruited former Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner and James Cameron, director of blockbuster movies Titanic and Terminator, to promote the company to 500 advertisers at the conference, which ends Wednesday.
The 61-page decision came too late for Veoh, which was backed by Time-Warner and former Disney Chief Michael Eisner but has been in financial limbo since filing for bankruptcy in 2010.
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For Winebaum, who had spent his career reporting to Mortimer Zuckerman and Michael Eisner, it was an opportunity to get out from under the corporate shadow and, with any luck, cash in on the Internet lottery.
The announcement gives the company time to plan a successor for Iger who took over as chief executive in 2005 from Michael Eisner after a bruising fight for control of the board between Eisner and Roy Disney.
If Michael Eisner and Maurice (Hank) Greenberg can be eased out after creating tens of billions of dollars of shareholder value earlier in their careers, the operative question in boardrooms must now be: What have you done for us lately?
Confirmed speakers include: IAC Chairman Barry Diller, ex-Disney chairman Michael Eisner, NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright, YouTube founder Chad Hurley, actor Morgan Freeman, the CEOs of Sling Media, Netflix, 2929 Entertainment, as well as high-level executives from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
So, for all the recent excitement at the Walt Disney Company, where 45% of votes were withheld from its chief executive, Michael Eisner (see article), even if 99.9% of shareholders had withheld their votes, Mr Eisner would still have been re-elected.
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