When you spend 38 years producing movies, as Jerry Bruckheimer has, you see studio regimes come and go — out with the old, in with the new. The circumstances differ, but one aspect, he said, is always the same: “Hollywood kills you when you bring in an outsider.”
Walt Disney Studios risked it anyway, firing its longtime chairman, Dick Cook, last September and replacing him — to dropped jaws in the movie world — with Rich Ross, a children’s television executive from within Disney, who cites “Tootsie” as his favorite film.
As Mr. Ross began ripping apart the studio, Hollywood’s chattering class — agents, publicists, rival executives — started to tear into him, albeit in the strictly off-the-record way typical of the industry’s culture.
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