You can’t placate all your critics: sometimes you just have to ignore them. Reacting in a panic to whatever group is currently making noise online is no way to lead.
wears a prosthetic proboscis to play acclaimed Jewish conductor Leonard Bernstein in the forthcoming filmMy first reaction to clips in which Cooper playsas a young man was that the prosthetic looked like a racist caricature: it seemed excessively large compared with the actual composer’s conk. I wasn’t alone in my view – many others took to social media with the same complaint.But in clips where Cooper plays Bernstein later in life, the nose looks better-judged.
The company’s troubles have been a long time in the making. In the 1980s, Disney was struggling for money: its executives set about trying to monetise its underserved LGBT fan base. The company’s then-chief executive, Michael Eisner, was willing not only to sign off the strategy, but to defend it on television after he was attacked by the religious right for extending spousal benefits to same-sex couples working for Disney.
What Chapek should have done is assess the terrain, pick a side and stick to it. Instead, he oscillated between silence during the bill’s passage through the Florida legislature and public opposition to it after the fact. I have lost track of the number of times a chief executive or the leader of a charity or other organisation has held up the social media posts of someone like my mum as a reason for why they “can’t” do something.