In the past, the company has spared few expenses. Now, stricter corporate financial controls aim to prevent such lavishness. Disney risks not only a financial headache but tarnishing its image in a business it has ruled supreme for 45 years. He brings his personal point of view to movies, TV shows, merchandise, theme parks and, especially, the architectural style of company buildings. He nixes jokes in movies that he finds unfunny and surfs the Internet anonymously to see what people in chat rooms are saying about Disney.
Coney Island is gone, and it was the biggest thing in the world.
To get the point across to his executives, Eisner sends them videotapes of a 1991 Ric Burns documentary detailing Coney Island's demise. I keep looking at that Coney Island footage. You can screw it up if you're not really good. You get too tacky, you get too greedy. Disney's parks are light-years from becoming decaying Coney Islands.