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This week in the L.A. Business Journal, Editor Mark Lacter moves his weekly commentary out to the cover and calls for Michael Eisner's departure from Disney.
Over the years, there’s just been so much of it – the bad blood, the unwise acquisitions, the aloofness, the ineffectual board, the unwillingness to plan for a successor – that, in almost Nixonian guise, Eisner has the look of an isolated figure playing what most everyone but him says will be a lame duck role...Love him or hate him, it’s really time to go.
In a mysterious aside, Lacter labels Eisner nemesis Roy E. Disney's stake in a condom manufacturer a "dark side" -- what's dark about making condoms?
Inside, the Business Journal runs an eight-paragraph correction to a Feb. 16 story on the Writers Guild. It begins:
The Business Journal has determined that besides several factual errors, the Writers Guild of America West was not given the opportunity to adequately respond to criticism and that some of the WGA responses were not included.
Also inside: Creative Artists Agency is moving from its I.M. Pei-designed home in Beverly Hills to a new tower in Century City. And The New Yorker magazine's "New Yorker Nights" launch in Los Angeles on March 25 when Lillian Ross interviews Robin Williams at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax.