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Oct. 14, 1991: Business Notes:Entertainment
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 56
Business Notes
ENTERTAINMENT
Mickey's Mini-Profits
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<p> Goofy was there. So were the Seven Dwarfs, along with 7,000
journalists from 35 countries and a guy named Bush. In an
extravaganza of self-congratulation and free publicity, the Walt
Disney company last week celebrated the 20th anniversary of its
Orlando landmark, Disney World. But in another corner of the
globally famous theme park, Disney's chief financial officer,
Richard Nanula, was disclosing to a gathering of financial
analysts a dramatically different picture of the State of the
Magic Kingdom: a 20% decline in earnings for fiscal 1991 from
the previous year's record $824 million. That marks the first
fall since 1984, when the moribund company began its spectacular
comeback under the chairmanship of Michael Eisner.
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<p> Ironically, much of the slide was the result of declining
attendance at Disney's theme parks and resorts as gulf-war woes
and recession kept would-be tourists at home. Adding to the ebb
in profits is a recent string of box-office busts from Disney's
moviemaking wing. The company once identified with such runaway
hits as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Pretty Woman is now more
associated with disappointing offerings like The Rocketeer, The
Marrying Man and V.I. Warshawski. With such problematic pics as
the delayed Billy Bathgate in its future, it may be increasingly
rare to find Disney employees who whistle while they work.
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