August 16, 2011, Disney Dream

[allardk46]

santa just put rupert murdoch in my stocking!!!! I got the job at fox news channel!!!!!!!!!

Congrats!!

 

[kritter]

Company: Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, dies
Company says Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, dies at 79

By Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer , On Wednesday December 16, 2009, 4:29 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney whose powerful behind-the-scenes influence on The Walt Disney Co. led to the departure of former chief Michael Eisner, has died. He was 79.

The company announced that Disney died Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif., after a yearlong bout with stomach cancer. Company president and chief executive Bob Iger said Disney was much more than a valued 56-year company veteran. "Roy's commitment to the art of animation was unparalleled and will always remain his personal legacy and one of his greatest contributions to Disney's past, present and future," Iger said in a statement.
Although he generally stayed out of the spotlight, Roy Disney didn't hesitate to lead a successful campaign in 1984 to oust Walt Disney's son-in-law after concluding he was leading the company in the wrong direction.

Nearly 20 years later, he launched another successful shareholders revolt, this time against Eisner, the man he'd helped bring in after the previous ouster. Eisner and his wife issued a statement expressing their sympathies over Disney's death. Don Hahn, an executive producer at the Disney movie studio, credited Roy Disney with ushering in a new era after taking over the animation department in 1984. Together, they helped make such blockbusters as "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King." "He took it under his wing, was a cheerleader, a coach, therapist," Hahn said.

John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, also lauded Disney. "He put his heart and soul into preserving Disney's legendary past, while helping to move the art of animation into the modern age by embracing new technology," Lasseter said.

Born in 1930, Roy Disney had practically grown up with the company. His uncle Walt Disney and his father, Roy O. Disney, had co-founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio seven years before, later renaming it The Walt Disney Co. While Walt was the company's creative genius, his brother was the one in charge of the company's finances. Starting in the 1950s, the younger Roy Disney worked for years in the family business as an editor, screenwriter and producer. Two short films he worked on were nominated for Academy Awards: the 1959 "Mysteries of the Deep," which he wrote, was nominated as best live action short, and the 2003 film "Destino," which he co-produced, was nominated as best animated short.

Despite his heritage, Roy Disney never got the chance to lead the company. But as an investor who grew his Disney stock into a billion-dollar fortune, he had a huge impact on the company's destiny. In 1984, dissatisfied with the leadership Walt's son-in-law Ron Miller was providing, Disney resigned from the company's board of directors and sought investors to back a bid to install new management. (Miller was the husband of Diane Disney Miller, Roy's cousin.) His efforts resulted in the hiring of Eisner and Frank Wells, who led the company as a team until Wells died in 1994. During that time, Disney rejoined the board and rose to become the company's vice chairman and chairman of its animation division. He also became a savvy investor over the years, forming Shamrock Holdings with his friend and fellow Disney board member Stanley Gold in 1978. The fund grew to become a major investor in California real estate, the state of Israel and other entertainment and media companies. Gold, president of Shamrock Holdings and a friend of Disney for 35 years, described him as steadfastly loyal to his principles and his friends. "He was a gracious, humble gentleman," Gold said in a statement.

After years of dissatisfaction with Eisner's leadership and the company's lagging stock price, Disney and Gold resigned their board seats in 2003 and launched a shareholder revolt. In his resignation letter, Disney called for Eisner's ouster, complaining that on his watch the company's standards had declined, particularly at theme parks like California's Disneyland and Florida's Walt Disney World. Initially rebuffed, Disney rallied small investors and enthusiasts who responded to his folksy complaints about peeling paint at the theme parks and his anger at being told he would have to leave the board because he was too old. Shareholders eventually delivered an unprecedented rebuke to Eisner, withholding 45 percent of votes cast for his re-election to the board. The chief executive was later stripped of his role as board chairman and announced his retirement in 2005, a year before his contract was up.

Disney initially opposed Iger, Eisner's successor, but they reconciled and in 2005 Iger named Disney a board member emeritus and welcomed him back to company events. Disney didn't attend board meetings and at the time of his death was no longer a significant shareholder.

Born in Los Angeles on Jan. 10, 1930, Roy Edward Disney was Roy and Edna Disney's only child. As an adult, he bought a castle in Ireland and indulged his passion for yacht racing, setting several speed records. He was also an active philanthropist, supporting the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, a school founded by his father and uncle.
In 1999, he matched a gift from The Walt Disney Co. to establish an experimental theater space as part of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

In 2005, Disney pledged $10 million to establish the Roy and Patricia Disney Cancer Center at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank.

 

[RanCan]

Hello fellow cruisers!!!! Saved us from the bottom of page 2. Hope everyone has a good Friday...

 

[jenanderson]

Happy Friday everyone! I doubt there will be much activity by our group during the next week - too much holiday stuff going on. Thank you Randy for saving our thread from page 2!

Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season!

 

[hmansure]

Yeah! It's Friday!

 

[sdchickie]

Holy cow, 2 days with out any posts! This board is starting to look like my last cruise board AFTER THE CRUISE. I guess everyone is out helping the economy and going to parties. Well, got to go grocery shopping before the snow comes!!!

 

[jenanderson]

Just have to post....only 606 days until our cruise!

The best thing is that when I post the countdown days next - we will be in the 500s!!! We are getting closer folks!

Have a great day!

 

[LisaWalkerC21]

Have a great weekend everyone! I am off to do some skiing but dreamin' about cruisin'

 

[hmansure]

Oh joy - a blizzard warning is in effect here.... possible 20 inches of snow! That's just about our annual average for an entire winter?!? Ugggh....

 

[kritter]

Oh joy - a blizzard warning is in effect here.... possible 20 inches of snow! That's just about our annual average for an entire winter?!? Ugggh....

We have the same forcast predicted here too!! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sdchickie]

Blizzard warning for us too! I was driving home from a X-mas party tonight and the roads are already F'd up, I'm sure all the cars behind me were cheering when I finally turned off of the main road since I was the California driver doing 15 MPH down the road! I hate snow!!!! Can I move back to Ca. yet? I guess at least we'll have a white Christmas now or at least a somewhat brownish white.

 

[LisaWalkerC21]

Yes the snow is coming! We are going to get our skiing in today in NH and then will go home a day early to try and beat the snow. I do love the snow but not when it interferes with my travel plans. I hate to be on the road when it is snowing! Well looks like we will have a white Christmas

 

[jenanderson]

Oh joy - a blizzard warning is in effect here.... possible 20 inches of snow! That's just about our annual average for an entire winter?!? Ugggh....

Sorry for you all! We have actually had 2 really nice winter days (in the 20s). I think a bit of snow is suppose to come tomorrow but nothing like you all are expecting.

Drive safely everyone!

 

[hmansure]

The fun has started here already! We had plans for a Breakfast with Santa this morning that we scrapped. There's only 3-4 inches on the ground, but it's not really worth the risk of taking the entire family out in this mess. Traffic reports say there's lots of ice out there. Soccer game has already been cancelled, too.

So we are trapped indoors today.

 

[jenanderson]

The fun has started here already! We had plans for a Breakfast with Santa this morning that we scrapped. There's only 3-4 inches on the ground, but it's not really worth the risk of taking the entire family out in this mess. Traffic reports say there's lots of ice out there. Soccer game has already been cancelled, too.

So we are trapped indoors today.

I would LOVE to be trapped indoors today! Well, after I get to the grocery store that is! I have so much to do today that it would be nice to know that I have to stay home...although we do have a Christmas to get to today but that is only 2 miles away and we could make that!

The kids have dance in about 30 minutes, I have to get groceries, then there is the baking that needs to get done, there is ALWAYS laundry, somehow the house is a mess again, did I mention all the baking I have to do ??? Finally, at 3:00 we are celebrating Christmas (1st of 4). I am excited to start the holiday season in full force but will also be happy when we have a few days at home without anything to do!

 

[kritter]

Harry, sorry to hear it has already started there.

Everything, is getting cancelled here too. But no flakes as of yet. Bruce, has to run out and get our pool pump off of our pool cover before it starts snowing and gets covered in snow. Then we are going to bake and bake some more cookies today!!

 

[My4PhillyGirls]

Everyone sit back and enjoy the snow while watching DCL on the travel channel at noon today

Joe

 

[elgerber]

Morning everyone!! Jen is right, it's been nice and warm here the last couple of days. Of course 23 or 24 being warm is relative compared to the few days before LOL!! I have so much to do this weekend, I am not even sure what it all is. Nothing is wrapped, nothing is baked (but I haven't baked in years, so nothing new), stuff still needs to be bought, house is a MESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alexa and I saw the Princess and the Frog last night, what a wonderful movie. Loved the music!!!

 

[sdchickie]

I'm so glad all you Minnesotians (is that even a word?) are having a warm winter. It's 25 degrees here and I'm not even sticking my head out the door. I don't think I could cut it where you live, I would only leave the house 6 months of the year!

 

[elgerber]

I'm so glad all you Minnesotians (is that even a word?) are having a warm winter. It's 25 degrees here and I'm not even sticking my head out the door. I don't think I could cut it where you live, I would only leave the house 6 months of the year!

LOL, it is a word if you leave out the i, it's Minnesotans. We are not having a warm winter , we just got lucky for a couple of days (23 or 24 degrees). It's actually been very cold this month, even by our standards! It's been a weird year, October was one of the coldest on record and November one of the warmest and driest. Now it's been cold again, go figure! One thing about Minnesota, the weather is NOT predictable!!