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Walt Disney required reading

post #1 of 3
7/14/02 at 2:46am
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Found this book a week ago via a recommendation, read it, and I have to say it's amazing.

Walt Disney:Hollywood's Dark Prince

this is required reading, it's the true story of Disney, not the one the company wants you to hear. It deals with his work in the FBI, and how badly he treated his "artists." It really shows you the real man behind the mouse, and it's not just made to shine a bad light on him, it's an unbiased biography, it lays everything on the table, showing all aspects of his life. Go pick it up.
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post #2 of 3
7/14/02 at 11:39am
I did a book report on this in the sixth grade.

I left out the part where one of the animators pulled a secretary's breast out of her shirt to demonstrate to a colleague how they move.
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post #3 of 3
7/14/02 at 11:54am
I read this a few years ago. Far from being an unbiased biography, I thought it came across as a nasty hatchet job that went out of it's way to paint Disney as an utter shit in everything he ever did, disregarding anything positive he may have achieved in order to create something "controversial".

Sure, he had plenty of reprehensible traits and bizarre quirks, but he was also a great story-teller and director and this book does nothing to balance the two. I'm no great fan of Disney (the man or the company) but the complete lack of anything positive in this book just buries any shred of truth under an avalanche of mean-spirited and salacious tabloid rumourmongering.

There is a great "warts and all" biography to be written about Walt Disney. This isn't it.

For a far more literate and well-researched look into the world of Disney, pick up Carl Hiassen's "Team Rodent: How Disney Devours The World".
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