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The Hollywood Trial of the Century ended this afternoon in a Disney victory, with a Delaware judge ruling that while it certainly may have a been a pretty dumb idea for Michael Eisner to hire onetime "life partner" Michael Ovitz to help him run the Mouse, then give him a $140 million kiss-off 14 months later when the duo discovered that they would no longer cross a street to urinate on each other if they were engulfed in life-threatening flames, the nine-figure boner didn't constitute a breach of executive duty. Guess there's some kind of ten-figure threshhold where an "oopsie" becomes punishable negligence.

We're sure that the morning will bring further analysis of the landmark decision, and we'll use the intervening time to try to come to terms with the feelings of loss and abandonment we're experiencing now that a verdict has been rendered. Thumb-sucking, the fetal position, and a soothing session with the Fantasia 2000 DVD may be involved.