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Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Ike Perlmutter, Marvel Comics | Tagged: florida, Sean HannityFormer chair of Marvel Entertainment Ike Perlmutter has bought a new house next door to that of Fox News' Sean Hannity in Palm Beach.Former chair of Marvel Entertainment, who sold the company to Disney for four-billion, after setting up the deal for Marvel to create its own movies, Ike Perlmutter, has bought a new house. And it happens to be just next door to that of Fox News' Sean Hannity on the South End of Palm Beach's…

DAVID SAVED TINA(Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz) Tina Turner credited her rumoured one-time lover David Bowie with helping salvage her career. The ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’, whose death aged 83 was announced on Wednesday (24.05.23) after a six-decade career, told how the late ‘Ziggy Stardust’ icon helped her back on her feet after she was left feeling lost and isolated following her divorce from her violent, controlling husband Ike Turner. Tina Turner told Female First in a resurfaced interview from 2004: “In 1983 David…

While Tina Turner is heralded as an R&B and rock icon, her Buddhist faith was the soul that drove her eventful life and career. She often credited the religion with helping her find the strength to leave her abusive relationship with Ike Turner in 1976. In the years since, Turner was known to recite Buddhist chants daily, even chanting on national television on Larry King’s CNN show in 1997, a practice she continued until her death on Wednesday, at 83, in her home in Küsnacht, near Zurich, Switzerland, where she had…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Hurricanes and Climate | Extreme EarthIn September 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas, as a Category 4 storm with around 20 feet of storm surge. Even though the hurricane caused more than $7 billion in damage, it soon became clear that the disaster could have been much worse: If the storm surge had struck the coast at a different angle, water might have funneled up the Houston ship channel and inundated the city’s…

Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter says Walt Disney Co. DIS 0.34% fired him as chairman of Marvel Entertainment because he pushed Disney too aggressively to cut costs and ran afoul of the creative executives whom newly returned Chief Executive Robert Iger wants to empower.In a rare interview, the 80-year-old Mr. Perlmutter spoke to The Wall Street Journal about his dismissal from Disney last week, his relationship with Mr. Iger, and missteps he feels…

Ike Perlmutter, longtime Marvel Entertainment CEO, has been sent packing. The New York Times reports that Perlmutter has been laid off by Disney after Marvel’s parent corporation determined that Ike’s role was redundant. In fact, the Times says Disney has decided all of Marvel Entertainment is redundant and will “be folded into larger Disney business units.” The news comes a few months after a public rebuke of Perlmutter by Disney CEO Bob Iger following a protracted proxy battle in which Perlmutter-backed stockholder …

Walt Disney Co. DIS 1.46% has laid off Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, chairman of Marvel Entertainment LLC, and plans to fold the comic-book publishing business into Disney Entertainment, the company’s content-production division. Mr. Perlmutter, who remains one of Disney’s largest individual shareholders, has long had a rocky relationship with Chief Executive Robert Iger. In 2015, Mr. Iger removed him as head of Marvel Studios after a power…

Isaac Perlmutter, reclusive CEO of Marvel Entertainment of three decades, has been ousted, the Walt Disney Company has confirmed to the New York Times. The firing comes as Disney is generally downsizing and cost-cutting to meet the macroeconomic moment — but for many, it’s long overdue, after years of Perlmutter’s attempts at cut-throat corporate dealing and conspicuous political activism. Most recently, Perlmutter unsuccessfully advocated to Disney execs and board members to place his personal friend and known…

Isaac Perlmutter, or Ike Perlmutter, has been fired as chairman of  Marvel Entertainment by Disney as part of a reorganisation.Published Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:18:11 -0500 by Rich Johnston | Last updated Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:22:07 -0500 | Isaac Perlmutter, or Ike Perlmutter, has been fired as chairman of  Marvel Entertainment. The New York Times reports that the eighty-year-old man who saved Marvel Comics from bankruptcy sold it to Disney and ruled like a tyrant was "told by phone on Wednesday that Marvel Entertainment, a…