>>>*Michael Eisner - Eisner gained a reputation during his time as the

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>> I understand he also use to program ABCs Saturday morning back in the 70s.
>> He single-handedly destroyed Disney animation. They've yet to be the
>> animation studio they were before everything was shut down.

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> Any mention of Eisner must make mention of a certain other executive
> behind the throne--
> An executive with no animation background whatsoever, who was handed the
> post-Ron Miller reins of an animation division in trouble and told by
> Eisner "It's *your* problem now"...
> And who, twelve years later went on to take credit for half of Disney's
> hits, and stealing most of the others for another studio--whose
> animation job he'd gotten on the strength of claiming credit for "Lion
> King"--before making the (albeit misquoted) sweeping pronouncements that
> instrumentally CAUSED Eisner to singlehandedly destroy Disney animation.
>
> There is no Eisner history without Jeffrey Katzenberg. No cel studio
> would have been destroyed in 2002 without Shrek or Sinbad.
> The two execs will be forever linked in historical destiny.