The Mouse That Roared: The Disney Company's $19 billion purchaseof Capital Cities-ABC network was one of the best-kept secrets inHollywood, where everybody knows everybody's name and innermostsecrets. How this massive deal was kept quiet would make anotherBarbarians at the Gate - the book and movie based on the $25 billionRJR Nabisco deal, the only one larger than Disney's acquisition ofABC. Most of the media was so wrapped up in the pending purchase byWestinghouse of CBS that the much bigger story went undetected. ("Andnow the Nightly News, brought to you by Mickey Mouse.")
FIRST STOP FOR TOM MURPHY, chairman of Capital Cities-ABC, andMichael Eisner, CEO of Disney, was …
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