The human mind, or mind’s eye, has unique abilities that no other species on Earth can manage in quite so comprehensive a way. While we may have seen what looks like our pets dreaming and while we can ascribe it to imagined hunts or chases or the like, all we really...
The word “entitlement” gets used a lot nowadays. Sometimes it just means whatever some politician, agitator, social media maven, or other n’ere-do-well wants it to mean and is thus meaningless…but sometimes it is real and a symptom of a disturbing trend of our times....
Let’s say this up front: I am second to NOBODY in finding Harvey Weinstein, his associates, or anyone who worked with him or covered up for him in complete contempt—of MY court of opinion because people who use their power to sexually and emotionally abuse others are,...
I write this in the aftermath of the Great Robotic Shareholder Show of the Bob Iger (formerly Walt Disney) Company, and I know we’re all feeling various degrees of anger, disappointment, and, to be honest, disgust. I’m not talking about the results because we knew...
Let’s face it, if you strip away the smoke, mirrors, and hubris-driven lies, the news for the Walt Disney Company has been pretty much nothing but bad for quite a while. Feature films overspent and underdelivering, theme parks charging more for less, maintenance...
On March 4, a long-awaited comprehensive document was unleashed in the ongoing proxy battle between Bob Iger’s Walt Disney Company and Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners. As we’ve noted in the past here in our research of how Peltz, for whom this is not his first corporate...
IF you have a product that people are rejecting, that is creating bad experiences people are deciding not to pay for, and that is failing to meet goal after goal, you’d think you’d reassess and also try to find a market price point that worked, probably a lower one to...
We say it every day on our channels and this website: The problem with box office disaster after disaster in the modern movie business is not hero fatigue, super hero fatigue, audience fatigue, audience prejudice, or any of the host of excuses and reasons we’re told...
You've heard it said before that some individuals should "learn to code" after they lose their job. Now that Disney World has picked up new oversight, it seems it is they who will be learning all about said code. The following article is a joint effort of LW...
If you’ve been watching the news at any time in the past 20 years, you’ll know ace national security reporter Catherine Herridge who made her reputation for exclusive, insider reporting on vital issues of defense, intelligence, war and peace as Chief Intelligence...
What a difference a year makes! Approximately one year ago, the private tax and government district known as Reedy Creek, which had been wielded by The Walt Disney Company in Central Florida since 1967, was dissolved by the Florida State Legislature and replaced by...
We all know it, we all hear about it, we’ve all seen it—a vacation at Walt Disney World has become very, very expensive and also offers less attractions, perks, and goodies than it once did. That’s kind of a cliché at this point, but the devil, as they say, is in the...