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Peter Bart: Bob Iger’s Proxy War Victory Recalls Corporate Skirmishes Of Hollywood Past
The Bob Iger vs Nelson Peltz war is over and Iger has won. But some Hollywood filmmakers and ticket buyers might wonder: Did any of it matter?
The onetime TV weatherman has played a winning hand over a succession of rivals and doubters dating back to the Michaels (Eisner and Ovitz) and Jeffrey Katzenberg and even an occasionally skeptical Disney relative or heir. When Kirk Kerkorian defeated Sam Bronfman for control of MGM in the early 1960s, he promptly started auctioning off the back lot, even selling fabled studio props (Judy Garland’s slippers in Wizard of Oz). “He was a giant in his day,” Spencer Tracy intoned at the funeral of Louis B. Mayer, praising the MGM boss for fostering an expanded studio system and trusting the decisions of his creative chief, Irving Thalberg.
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