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...WALT WHITMAN...
...hired Taymor--an avant-garde director who uses puppets, masks and other non-Western theater techniques--to adapt its most popular animated film for the stage. It turns out to have been a masterstroke. Taymor has brought the same kind of let's-start-from-scratch inspiration that Walt and his fellow animators must have had when they created Mickey and Snow White and virtually invented the art of movie animation...
...dispute pits Jeffrey Katzenberg, the diminutive and determined former chairman of the Walt Disney Co. studio, against Michael Eisner, the towering and truculent chief executive and chairman of the whole Disney shebang. The fight stems from Katzenberg's claim that Disney promised him 2% of the profit from the film and other ventures he headed during his 10 years at the studio, a sum that might reach $250 million or more. Some of those projects, notably animated hits like Aladdin and The Lion King, generated billions in revenue...
...from three deep-pocketed Disney rivals: Fox, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks SKG. The next few years will see the biggest splurge of cartoon features ever. But after the exclamation point come the question marks. Are there ways to make popular animated films that don't slavishly follow the rules Walt and the boys made up in the 1930s? Are studios jumping on the toon trolley just as the form has shown signs of losing its commercial luster? "I'm a little uncertain," says Chuck Jones, who joined Warner's in 1935 and today, at 85, is the greatest living animation...
...Walt "Clyde" Frazier got his nickname because he rode the New York subway to games and to local clubs afterwards dressed like Clyde from the "Bonnie and Clyde" television tandem--very eccentric...