Disney’s Dynamic Duo

Re “Eisner: From Corporate Savior to Bad Example,” Commentary, Feb. 12: It’s hard to understand how Roger Lowenstein can write even a brief commentary about the rise and fall of Michael Eisner and never once mention Frank Wells.

Wells was the other half of a team that took over Disney in 1984, a man whose brilliant mind and down-to-earth persona counterbalanced Eisner’s excitable creativity. They were a perfectly matched pair, and if there is a moment when Eisner’s ascendancy can be said to have leveled off, it was the day that Wells died in a helicopter crash.

Jim Houghton

Encino