From miamiherald.com:

It is difficult to figure out why Michael Eisner would want to be a talk-show host. For one thing, hes got a billion dollars. Literally — Forbes magazine says so. For another, he worries himself sick that he’ll flub something on camera, no matter how wildly improbable — like, say, mixing up the name of a shrimp-dumpling dish with a famous war crime.

“Oh yeah, when I was on Martha Stewarts show, I was cooking shrimp shao mai and I was really afraid I was going to say shrimp My Lai”, Eisner recalls. “I kept saying the name to myself to get it right. It was kind of silly to have me on there anyway. Cooking is not my forte. But I did have an advantage — the guy before me was doing worms and compost.”

Eisner is considerably more adept at analyzing business and entertainment — and, especially, the business of entertainment — than he is at making dumplings, so his CNBC talk show Conversations With Michael Eisner sticks pretty much to those topics with guests ranging from from stars like John Travolta to corporate honchos like Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. An episode he taped earlier this month during a visit to South Florida, including interviews with Gloria Estefan and Micky Arison, airs at 9 tonight.

Still, it seems an odd place to find the guy who spent two decades rebuilding Disney from a floundering film studio into a $50 billion global entertainment empire before walking away from an acrimonious dispute with stockholders two years ago.

Well, I did have some experience. I hosted The Wonderful World Of Disney for 20 years, Eisner teases. “Seriously, what am I gonna do? Play golf? Sit on an island somewhere? Its not my personality.

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