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Michael Ovitz took the stand in the Hollywood Trial of the Century yesterday, injecting some star power into proceedings that had been dominated by business academics bickering over the whether Ovitz had been overpaid or lawyers questioning the experts' qualifications. Would they finally get to hard-hitting cross-examinations about Ovitz's secret hooker discretionary fund, or tales of how CEO Michael Eisner and Ovitz clashed over whether to serve Chinese or Bolivian babies at the Disney executive dining room's monthly Eat an Orphan night? Well, not so much, as Ovitz griped about the company's unsatisfying atmosphere:

Ovitz, 58, described the Burbank entertainment company as "not particularly sensitive to human beings," and he elicited laughter throughout the courtroom when he said Disney executives did not get up from their desks to talk to one another. "You got calls from guys who were 25 feet from you," he said.

But those guys were calling to tell him about the hooker they just ordered up on the company intranet, or to brag about how many babies they got down at lunch before vomiting, right? We hold out hope that they'll get to the good stuff tomorrow, once Ovitz adjusts to the crowd-pleasing demands of the witness chair.