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...retreat, and he never had 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...
Even before Napster, Bertelsmann's e-empire spanned global Web brands, including partnerships with giant search engine TerraLycos, music sites CDNow and GetMusic and a 40% interest in Barnes&Noble.com Middelhoff claims that as of July, Bertelsmann was ahead of every competitor except the Walt Disney Co. in visitors to its online sites. "Speed, speed, speed" is the Middelhoff mantra. "The world is changing fast," he said over dinner in Germany last June. "Companies must continually reinvent themselves and not be tied to one structure...
...like complaining that Dan Quayle plagiarized your speech. Really, what vindication do you hope to win? In the case of Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, granddaughter of silent-film star Harold Lloyd, the answer is about $50 million worth. Hayes, on behalf of the Harold Lloyd Trust, alleges that the Walt Disney Co. violated federal copyright law because The Waterboy is "demonstrably a copy of The Freshman," the 1924 comedy classic starring her grandfather. Like The Waterboy, The Freshman told the story of a bumbling football waterboy who happens his way onto the team, becomes the butt of jokes, falls in love...
...retreat, and he never had 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...
Working in an environment with neither walls nor doors is an experience many now endure or, like business author Walt Goodridge, remember with dread. Goodridge recalls his seven years in the World Trade Center as a civil engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. "We occupied the whole 73rd floor, more than 200 people in cloth-covered steel cubicles. Sitting, you were alone; standing, you could look directly into someone else's cube. I fixed my computer so passersby couldn't see it. But you could overhear everyone's phone conversations, and rumors spread quickly...