Hollywood Trial Of The Century: Eisner Jilts Ovitz
The recently moribund Hollywood Trial of the Century received a heaping plate of sexing up when Disney CEO Michael Eisner finally took the stand Monday to discuss his hiring and firing of erstwhile mega-agent Michael Ovitz as the company's president. While Ovitz tried to evoke a sepia-toned image of the two "life partners'" running Disney while placidly floating in a rowboat, executive limbs intertwined, breaking their clasp only when Ovitz would sit up to readjust the parasol protecting his CEO from the midday sun, Eisner did his best to portray their union as strictly take-the-cab-fare-and-try-not-to-wake-me-on-the-way-out: "I was amused by him," Eisner said. "He was fun to go to dinner with."
This is going to get good.