[elli1]

"A statement from the Disney board said Mr Disney had not been nominated for re-election to the board because of mandatory age limits. He is 73."

This is just plain ugly, even uglier coming from the Disney company. The "family entertainment" company is kicking "grandpa" off the board because he's old?

It's like little mikey is driving the wheelchair & dumping Roy over the cliff. Seeing as how mikey has a bum ticker, maybe he ought to be riding in the wheelchair instead of driving it.

But I don't think age is the real reason why mikey wants Roy gone. It's going to be interesting to watch how this plays out w/ stockholders.

[Liz]

.....I don't think age is the real reason why mikey wants Roy gone.....

A power struggle, of course. It's what happens when you put soulless, rapacious people like Eisner in power. Eisner is self-serving and very ambitious.

If you've read the several post-Walt Disney books about the company, it was so utterly phony how Eisner acted when he got the job -- like he was going to be a good Disney-ite, faithful to Walt's legacy. What an egotistical liar.

This should be a wakeup call to those who do business with soulless, rapacious Eisner-types. They'll turn on you in a nanosecond, step all over you, and train their gunsites on you if you get in the way of their self-absorbed ambitions.

[capt. norm]

Something makes me think that they would have found a way to kick the original Disney (Walt) off the board long before now if he were still alive.

That company no longer projects the true "Disney Spirit" that was always present when Walt was alive. The company had 'heart' back then and its family values were beyond reproach.

A lot of us grew up with Disney films and productions and it was always a special treat when Walt Disney would come on their TV show and talk about something special they were doing.

Look what Eisner has done.
(I'm not going to make a list because we all know what's on it))