With the delicious testimonies of Disney CEO Michael Eisner and erstwhile superagent/president-for-a-minute Michael Ovitz fading from memory, the heat on The Hollywood Trial of the Century has all but dissipated. While Ovitz's pathological denial made him feel his time on the witness stand helped to rehabilitate his battered rep around town (being called a "psychopath" isn't so bad, right?), he took another beating in Tuesday's proceedings, when former Disney chief legal counsel branded Ovitz a "total failure." As if this tarring wasn't enough, Litvack dumped the feathers on the ex-president's head, sneakily impugning Ovtiz's vaunted lying ability by claiming that he never lied about any "material" issues while at the Mouse.

The LA Weekly's Nikki Finke generously awards herself an honorary "Eisner' ("you get a prick with brass balls") for earning a mention in The Hollywood Trial of the Century when an article she wrote about the tensions between Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz started to leak out into the press turned up as evidence. Finke recounts the plaintiff's lawyer's mention of her piece:

Stephen Bollenbach, Disney's chief financial officer during the Ovitz Debacle, took the stand at The Hollywood Trial of the Century and described the former president's "odd" managerial style. Among Ovitz's more charming behaviors was gathering his executives and asking them whom they thought was the most important person in history (among the answers: Jesus and Eisner) and showily pulling aside CEO Michael Eisner to conspicuously whisper in his ear.

Film Threat knows that other magazine's "hot" and "power" lists are an exercise in futility, as one year's Most Powerful Man in Hollywood is the next's high profile defendant, and fleetingly omnipotent studio are forced to cut back employee's vacation time to make ends meet. It's arguably far more relevant to examine the lower reaches of the power thermometer, so Film Threat lists this year's "Frigid 50," the Hollywood players whose careers seem to have a caught walking pneumonia. Congratulations to old pals Michael Moore (No. 1), Michael Eisner (3), Paris Hilton (9), and Ben Affleck (10), who've all managed to crack the top ten. If things break right for them, they might manage to get hotter than Colin Farrell's infamous penis (17).

In his final day of testimony in The Hollywood Trial of the Century, Disney CEO Michael Eisner expressed regret that the trial's more sensational elements might have painted an unflattering picture of the entertainment business that he loves so dearly.

The fourth day of Disney CEO Michael Eisner's testimony in The Hollywood Trial of the Century featured Eisner proving that it's not only agents that lie, as he and about-to-be-executed president Michael Ovitz attempted a face-saving, investor-appeasing appearance on Larry King Live in 1996. The two did everything short of an on-air tattooing of heart-encircled "Mike & Mike 4-ever" pledges on each other's chests to make their relationship seem copacetic.

OR: Hey, Mike, the game's called "Got Your Nose."

In Wednesday's testimony at the Hollywood Trial of the Century, Disney CEO Michael Eisner spun a fascinating account of failed president's Michael Ovitz's last days with the company. Even though Eisner claimed that his No. 2 "would not accept being fired" and needed to be told several times that Disney no longer required his services, Eisner still managed to paint himself as Ovitz's victim.

Yesterday, in his seven-hour testimony in the Hollywood Trial of the Century, Disney CEO Michael Eisner continued his account of how an "arrogant" and "abrasive" Michael Ovitz quickly wore out his welcome in the company. Eisner described some bizarre emotional outbursts that compromised Ovitz's ability to be an effective leader, but attempted to gloss over a weak moment of his own.

The recently moribund Hollywood Trial of the Century received a heaping plate of sexing up when Disney CEO Michael Eisner finally took the stand Monday to discuss his hiring and firing of erstwhile mega-agent Michael Ovitz as the company's president. While Ovitz tried to evoke a sepia-toned image of the two "life partners'" running Disney while placidly floating in a rowboat, executive limbs intertwined, breaking their clasp only when Ovitz would sit up to readjust the parasol protecting his CEO from the midday sun, Eisner did his best to portray their union as strictly take-the-cab-fare-and-try-not-to-wake-me-on-the-way-out: "I was amused by him," Eisner said. "He was fun to go to dinner with."

CNBC's documentary on the AOL/Time Warner merger, titled "The Big Heist," is one big lesson in C-level schadenfreude. The big media big boys Sumner Redstone, John Malone, Michael Eisner, etc., can barely contain their glee as they talk about The Deal They Didn't Do. Levin is ultimately exhonerated for being an all-around nice guy, while Case is portrayed as the evil mastermind behind the operation. Case, according to ex-boss James Kimsey, has no intention of going anywhere.
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