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...there are a lot who think you’re a jerk,” called out another dad from the rear of Sanders Theater, drawing scattered applause but mostly silence from the crowd...
...Comparing the Nick Mag comics issue with "Little Lulu" reveals some interesting similarities and differences. The use of licensed characters is one thing the two share. I'll admit to having a knee-jerk negative reaction at seeing Spongebob Squarepants and Jimmy Neutron, two characters who started on the Nickelodeon TV network, with their own strips. Synergistic marketing makes me queasy. But it's easy to forget that Lulu was already a star of other media and advertising campaigns at the time of her comic book appearance. What the creators do with the characters matters most, as proven by Lulu...
Stewart's take is that while a successful jerk may be forgiven all, Eisner indulged his vanity and vindictiveness to his company's harm. He cost Disney millions of dollars and vast embarrassment by letting Katzenberg's departure deteriorate into a lawsuit. He even badmouths Lost--his own network's hit--to Stewart, to rationalize having opposed it. ("Lost is terrible," he says. "Who cares about these people on a desert island...
...weren’t sure, you’re a jerk...
...case of the Larry debacle, the Harvard progressive community failed to do just that. Across campus, students who would have otherwise been open to hearing from progressive voices were put off by knee-jerk reactions as the progressive community itself struggled to listen and develop a coherent argument for exactly why Larry was wrong. The opportunity was there to re-energize one of our foremost causes, and we decided not to lead...