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...children of his own. ("You make 'em, I amuse 'em," he famously said.) He doted instead on the menagerie of misfits and mischiefmakers who have populated his children's books since 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept the T-shirts and adaptations to a minimum - one fabulous exception being animator Chuck Jones' 1966 TV version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" - and kept himself and his creatures close to home...
...Schulz and Weinberger gave conflicting advice on Iran-contra," I said. "How's W. going to decide who's right if two advisers disagree and neither is a Deke...
Long before they had even one fan, Schulz and Wirkus dreamed of being the morning team at a radio station. When it first became possible to send live audio over the Net, "we said, 'You know, this Internet thing is hot. I bet in six months we'll be rich,'" Schulz says. "That started two years of bill collectors' pounding on our doors, of family begging us, 'Please, don't do this. You had good jobs.'" Living on Spam and Jolly Good Soda, the two talked up their show in online news groups and at local colleges. As its popularity...
...radio made Schulz and Wirkus minor celebrities because traditional talk radio, dominated by endless rebroadcasts of old standbys Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh, had no room for new players. "To get on the radio today you have to wait for somebody to die," says Bob Meyrowitz, founder of eYada. To deejay a Net radio show, though, you just need a computer and a perky connection to the Web. A company called Live365.com made Net broadcasting free and much easier than it used to be. Live365 has more than 5,000 broadcasters, with shows like Upbeat '80s and ALL Shania...
...where an audience can easily communicate in chat rooms, personalities emerge from the clutter. "If someone is truly engaging, word tends to get out," says Chris O'Hanlon, founder of SpikeRadio, a network in L.A. It sure worked for Schulz and Wirkus. "The lesson is, if you work hard and are a total wiseass, you can become a star on the Internet," says Wirkus. A visit from a rich bachelor helps...