Coming Soon, the Corporate Drama of Disney

A playwright by the name of John Morogiello tells The Times he is researching a “play/musical/opera” about the ex-Disney boss titled “The Trials of Michael Eisner.”

No further details were available, but a dramatization of the civil cases involving onetime Eisner underlings Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Ovitz sounds like a sure-fire hit to me.

And an opera would be the perfect setting. No one could deny the power of such lyrics as:

* “I hate the little midget” (Eisner’s comment about Katzenberg)

* He is a “psychopath” (Eisner’s description of Ovitz)

* “I guess you could say I got pushed out the sixth-floor window” (Ovitz’s description of his firing by Eisner)

Certainly these lines were music to the ears of journalists (if not Disney stockholders).

Talk about a tough town: On a visit to Macon, Ga., Tom and Connie Quintana of Hawthorne saw a one-car junkyard with a message (see photo).

Uplifting news: Alan Rosenberg of Dana Point was waited on by a clerk who seemed to be admitting that he was high (see accompanying).

But can they get by the metal detectors? Mary Flores of San Diego found a back-to-school sale that was offering some non-bookish items (see accompanying).

Such a deal: England’s eateries have always had a bad reputation. Which no doubt explains one sandwich shop’s outlandish claim, noticed by Bob Patterson of Alta Loma (see photo).

Matinee-less: Columnist David Allen of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin pointed out that Pomona, with a population of 160,000, has nary a movie theater.

The city hasn’t always been so deprived. Film historian Rick Mitchell recalled that in the 1950 movie “Sunset Boulevard,” a sarcastic William Holden says of the script that Gloria Swanson has been writing for decades: “They’ll love it in Pomona.”

miscelLAny: Long Beach’s Press-Telegram asked readers to come up with a name for its new mascot, a smiling cartoon character whose body is a newspaper. Entries so far have ranged from puns (Prints Charming) and Elvis imitators (Press Lee) to local flavors (LB) -- with a few hostile suggestions thrown in (Typo, Daily Rag, Commie).

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