The Keys to the Kingdom: How Michael Eisner Lost His Grip - Hardcover

Masters, Kim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688174493 ISBN 13: 9780688174491

Publisher: William Morrow, 2000

Synopsis

A riveting account of Michael Eisner's outrageous, thrilling, and often self-destructive tenure as head of the Walt Disney Company

Kim Masters, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Hit & Run, has written a page-turning account of Michael Eisner's ascent at The Magic Kingdom. Based on hundreds of interviews with Hollywood's power players, she weaves Eisner's story together with those who have crossed his path: Barry Diller, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Michael Ovitz. Masters traces Eisner's rivalry with Diller at ABC and Paramount and shows how at Disney, Eisner and Frank Wells rejuvenated the company. Masters also details the fallout between Eisner and Katzenberg (who was responsible for hits like Aladdin and The Lion King) after Wells's untimely death, and traces the move of uber-agent Michael Ovitz from CAA to an executive position at Disney, one of Hollywood's most spectacular failures.Kim Masters, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Hit & Run, has written a page-turning account of Michael Eisner's ascent at The Magic Kingdom. Based on hundreds of interviews with Hollywood's power players, she weaves Eisner's story together with those who have crossed his path: Barry Diller, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Michael Ovitz. Masters traces Eisner's rivalry with Diller at ABC and Paramount and shows how at Disney, Eisner and Frank Wells rejuvenated the company. Masters also details the fallout between Eisner and Katzenberg (who was responsible for hits like Aladdin and The Lion King) after Wells's untimely death, and traces the move of uber-agent Michael Ovitz from CAA to an executive position at Disney, one of Hollywood's most spectacular failures.

The Keys to the Kingdom climaxes with the shocking and incredibly personal court battle between Eisner and Katzenberg, involving hundreds of millions of dollars.Kim Masters, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Hit & Run, has written a page-turning account of Michael Eisner's ascent at The Magic Kingdom. Based on hundreds of interviews with Hollywood's power players, she weaves Eisner's story together with those who have crossed his path: Barry Diller, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Michael Ovitz. Masters traces Eisner's rivalry with Diller at ABC and Paramount and shows how at Disney, Eisner and Frank Wells rejuvenated the company. Masters also details the fallout between Eisner and Katzenberg (who was responsible for hits like Aladdin and The Lion King) after Wells's untimely death, and traces the move of uber-agent Michael Ovitz from CAA to an executive position at Disney, one of Hollywood's most spectacular failures.

The Keys to the Kingdom climaxes with the shocking and incredibly personal court battle between Eisner and Katzenberg, involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

About this title

About the Author:

Kim Masters, a contributing editor for Time and Vanity Fair and a former reporter for the Washington Post, is coauthor with Nancy Griffin of Hit & Run. She lives in Los Angeles.

Review:

"A chilling little horror tale about just how ugly greed and ambition can be . ... Big and juicy." -- Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"A chilling little horror tale about just how ugly greed and ambition can be . ... Big and juicy." -- --Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"A page turner ... juicy as all get-out and persuasive to boot." -- --Steven Bach, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A page turner ... juicy as all get-out and persuasive to boot." -- Steven Bach, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A sweeping, vivid and richly entertaining account, not just of Disney but of the entire movie industry." -- --Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2000

"Merge Indecent Exposure with Barbarians at the Gate, add sex and you have Hit & Run." -- Sherryl Connelly, Daily News

"The most entertaining business book to come along in years." -- Christopher Byron, Wall Street Journal

"What Masters does with exceptional skill is to dig up small, inside details of the day-to-day machinations of show business." -- --Entertainment Weekly, March 24, 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0688174493
• ISBN 13: 9780688174491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480