Interview with Michael Eisner.....

[rodkenrich]

Does anyone know about the interview with Mr. Eisner that is suppose to be televised on either CNN or some other affiliate Sunday, Nov. 04 @ 2100 hrs.

 

[Nuts4Disney]

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[lrodk]

I saw parts of the interview this evening because I was torn between that and the World Series.

From what I did see however, Eisner seemed to be dancing around most of the questions as usual, being extremely careful about what he said. One thing that he touched upon which I found to be very interesting relates to past discussions that we've had about Mr Eisner's creativity, or lack there-of. Basically he said that he does not consider himself to be a creative person, which seems to conflict with statements to the contrary by many of his supporters. He went on to define what he considers to be a creative person, one who creates ideas/scripts/stories. He sees himself more as a very good editor, one who chooses from among a pool of creative ideas and usually does a very good job of narrowing it down to the best of the bunch. Since I never viewed him as a creative dynamo, it's refreshing to hear him characterize himself as objectively as he did.

Another note I'd like to make about the interview conducted by David Faber is that the selection of questions were very weak. I did notice that Mr Faber was trying very hard to get Eisner to admit that Disney's theme parks were possible terrorist targets because they represented "American values". He had Eisner the second time he brought it up following a reply to a related question, but Eisner simply waved it off and did another one of his little dance numbers. All in all a rather unenlightening interview with only minor insights to new information about the company, unless of course I missed something switching channels back and forth between that and the ball game.

 

[rodkenrich]

Yeah!!! I didn"t think that the interview would be anything but a smokescreen..... Thank you for the update.