BIG MONEY TODAY: Talk about your bad...

BIG MONEY TODAY: Talk about your bad business decisions. . . . TV pioneer Pat Weaver writes in a new book that while at NBC he cooked up a deal with Walt and Roy Disney: NBC would run Disney films and projects, but would have to buy 25% of Disneyland. The Disney brothers had just built the theme park and had a cash flow problem. . . . But Weaver says NBC owner David Sarnoff nixed the plan. Says Weaver: “I still wonder how much 25% of Disneyland, purchased with 1950s dollars, would be worth to NBC today.”

LEAVING KEYS HOME: County transportation officials had hoped to reach 2,000 riders daily after the new Metrolink train line was 6 months old. They made that goal in April--the first full month--with 2,057 average daily riders. . . . That’s five times the number riding the rails here before Metrolink. It’s operating six trains daily through the county with stops in six cities.

GREENE LINES: Former Rams linebacker Kevin Greene, who left last year for Pittsburgh, said on a TV talk show this week that his troubles with the Rams came during contract negotiations: “I had laid my heart on the line for ‘em, but I found out I was just another number.” Greene also credited former Rams teammate Jackie Slater, an offensive lineman, with making him a Pro Bowl-caliber linebacker: “I had to learn to make new moves because I was tired of getting whomped up on by Jackie in practice.”

EMILY & LEE & DONNA: If you like poetry, this could be your week. Tonight at 8, at the Alta Coffee House in Newport Beach, Rancho Santiago poetry Prof. Lee Mallory will read love poems with former student Donna Gebron. Love poems from others are welcome. . . . Friday night, local poets will read from the works of the great 19th-Century American poet Emily Dickinson. The reading is at the Bear Street Cafe in Costa Mesa.