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Wal-Mart: Morgan wasn't wearing seatbelt in crash
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NEWARK, N.J. — Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and other people in a limousine struck from behind by a Wal-Mart truck on a highway in June are at least partly to blame for their injuries because they weren't wearing seatbelts, the company said in a court filing Monday.
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The filing was made in federal court in response to a lawsuit Morgan filed in July over the accident, which killed his friend James McNair, who was accompanying the former "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" star back from a show in Delaware. Morgan spent several weeks in rehab with rib and leg injuries.
Tracy Morgan is responding to allegations made by Wal-Mart in his lawsuit over a highway crash earlier this year that killed one of his friends.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., said in the filing that the passengers' injuries were caused "in whole or in part" by their "failure to properly wear an appropriate available seatbelt restraint device," which it said constitutes unreasonable conduct.
An attorney representing Morgan and the other plaintiffs called Wal-Mart's contentions "surprising and appalling."
"It's disingenuous," attorney Benedict Morelli said. "It's not what they said they were going to do initially, which was take full responsibility. I'm very upset, not for myself but for the families I represent."
The lawsuits seeks a jury trial and punitive and compensatory damages. It says the retail giant should have known its truck driver had been awake for more than 24 hours before the crash and that his commute of 700 miles from his home in Georgia to work in Delaware was "unreasonable." It also alleges the driver fell asleep at the wheel.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said in an email that the company "continues to stand willing to work with Mr. Morgan and the other plaintiffs to resolve this matter."
Passengers Ardley Fuqua and Jeffrey Millea and Millea's wife, Krista Millea, also are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Krista Millea was not
in the limousine when the crash occurred but is a plaintiff because she has a related loss-of-services lawsuit stemming from the crash.
Truck driver Kevin Roper, of Jonesboro, Georgia, pleaded not guilty to death by auto and assault by auto charges in state court. A criminal complaint also accuses him of not sleeping for more than 24 hours before the crash, a violation of New Jersey law.
A report by federal transportation safety investigators said Roper was driving 65 mph in the minute before he slammed into the limo van. The speed limit on that stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike is 55 mph and was lowered to 45 mph that night because of construction.
Roper had been on the job about 13 1/2 hours at the time of the crash, the report concluded. Federal rules permit truck drivers to work up to 14 hours a day, with a maximum of 11 hours behind the wheel.
If Katzenberg leaves, what will become of DreamWorks Animation?
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Few executives in Hollywood are as closely associated with their companies as Jeffrey Katzenberg is with DreamWorks Animation.
Katzenberg, 63, founded the company with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen in 1994 and oversaw construction of its Tuscan-style, 13-acre campus in Glendale, Calif. He also transformed the studio into a top producer of animated movies.
More recently, he has been leading efforts to diversify the studio by expanding into television and other new businesses to reduce its reliance on animated movies.
Jeffrey Katzenberg arrives at the 85th annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood Highland Center in Los Angeles.
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Now, with the company seen as a possible acquisition target by Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp., the question is what will be the future of the company without Katzenberg?
"He's such a big personality, it's hard to know what happens when he goes," said Doug Creutz, a media analyst with Cowen & Co. "He has been the big creative vision and the strategic vision of the company. ... I do think that is the question."
DreamWorks shares Monday jumped 26 percent to $28.18 on this weekend's news that SoftBank was considering buying DreamWorks for $3.4 billion. SoftBank and DreamWorks representatives declined to discuss the talks. One person familiar with the situation said prospects for a deal were not certain and that negotiations seemed to have quieted Monday.
Damaschke, a 50-year-old Chicago native, joined
If a sale to SoftBank goes through, any deal probably would include a five-year management contract for Katzenberg, according to the person familiar with the situation, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Even if the SoftBank deal should collapse, however, Katzenberg has been laying the foundation for his eventual exit and a transition to new leadership.
The once famously micro-managing executive has handed over day-to-day management to others, ceding more authority to his top lieutenants, studio President Ann Daly and Chief Creative Officer Bill Damaschke.
DreamWorks in 1995 as a production assistant before working his way up to become head of production for the studio. Daly, 58, is another DreamWorks veteran. A former executive at Disney Studios, where she worked with Katzenberg, Daly helped pioneer the home video industry. She joined DreamWorks in 1997, serving as chief operating officer and overseeing the company's entries into TV and other ventures.
Last year, Katzenberg recruited Michael Francis, a former Target Corp. executive, to head the studio's consumer products and branding efforts. He has also hired former Disney Studios executive Mark Zoradi to be chief operating officer, and brought Marjorie Cohn from Nickelodeon to run the studio's television group.
Katzenberg has "definitely been the face of the studio, but I've got to imagine the studio can survive without him," said Eric Wold, an analyst with B. Riley & Co. "They've got a great team there."
"He has put together a cadre of administrators, artists and storytellers which has great bench strength," said Kaplan, who is now a professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. "It's as close to a turnkey operation as you could get."
"He's such a big personality, it's hard to know what happens when he goes."
Martin Kaplan, who worked with Katzenberg at Walt Disney Co. years ago, said Katzenberg appears to have put a succession team in place.
DOUG CREUTZ Cowen & Co. media analyst
A former executive at Paramount, Katzenberg was part of the team led by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells that turned around a struggling Disney in the 1980s and 1990s.
With his famous work ethic, the brash young executive led the revival of Disney's once vaunted animation unit with such as hits as "The Lion King" and "The Little Mermaid."
Although DreamWorks never achieved its goals of creating a broad-based studio, the animation division, which was spun off into a separate company in 2004, became an archival to Disney.
But after a highly publicized clash with Eisner, Katzenberg
left Disney to launch his own studio with Spielberg and Geffen.
Luring many former colleagues from his former employer, Katzenberg single-handedly built the studio into a industry powerhouse, achieving success with the "Shrek,""Kung Fu Panda" and "Madagascar" movies.
In recent years, however, Katzenberg has faced growing questions from investors as the studio has struggled to replicate the success of its earlier films. The company has had three write-downs in two years for "Turbo," "Rise of the Guardians" and "Mr. Peabody and Sherman."
DreamWorks has had to contend with a growing number of rivals as others have muscled in on the lucrative animation business. Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. have scored some surprise box-office hits with the "Despicable Me" films and "The Lego Movie." And DreamWorks' next-door neighbor, Walt Disney Studios, is on a
"We have been inconsistent," Katzenberg acknowledged in an interview this year. "The only thing I can guarantee you is we are our harshest critics."
roll in the wake of "Frozen," the highest-grossing animated movie of all time.
What would Katzenberg do after DreamWorks? He would certainly have plenty of options.
certainly have plenty of options. Katzenberg is active in philanthropy circles and is one of the people Democrats court when they come to Hollywood to raise money. He is one of the top contributors to the Democratic Party and has the ability to put the arm on friends and colleagues when it's time to raise campaign cash. "For a person who can move a million miles a minute, it's a little hard to imagine him sitting on a veranda sipping something with an umbrella in it," Kaplan said.
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