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Portrait of a bitter man? Michael Eisner does Deborah Solomon’s Qs


Or just journalism and editing?

From Deborah Solomons’ Q&A, in the NYT Magazine, with Michael Eisner:

Just last month, you put together some $385 million to acquire Topps, the manufacturer of Bazooka bubble gum and baseball cards. Topps is a brand that’s in the brain-waves of about 70 years of the American male. I can take that affinity and turn it into a sports-media company. Topps has many assets, and Bazooka has Bazooka Joe, and I could have fun making a Bazooka Joe movie.

Why is Bazooka Joe always wearing an eye patch in the mini comic strip that comes wrapped around the gum? That is what we are going to find out in the movie.

Wasn’t he a bit of a delinquent? He wasn’t faithful to his girlfriend, Zena, if I recall. He was not a delinquent. If he wasn’t faithful to his girlfriend, by the way, he wasn’t 25 years old and married with three kids. It’s O.K. She’ll survive. It’s good for her.

I think you need to update him and make him more of a feminist. Well, maybe he will be. We haven’t written it yet.

“If he wasn’t faithful to his girlfriend, by the way, he wasn’t 25 years old and married with three kids. It’s O.K. She’ll survive.” It’s good for her??????????

Okaaaaaaaaaay.

And on politics:

Do you think the presidential race has become a subdivision of the entertainment industry? I don’t see it that way. That demeans our political system.

Do you know whom you will be supporting in the race? I don’t really have a lot of insight that I can add to The New York Times about the political environment.

Are you a registered Democrat? No.

It’s public record, but I haven’t looked it up; what are you registered as? A human being.

Well. Alrighty then.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:05 am November 18th, 2007 in Culture, Media 

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