.MrPeterBart: Could old Walt and Bob Iger have steered ship together in this brave new Disney world?
. I was never clear why Disney had agreed to a rare sit-down interview with me in December 1965, but, sitting across from him at the Disney commissary, I enjoyed his grumpy self-admonitions. I was also bemused that this Hollywood icon, who’d bought entertainment to millions, seemed by nature both dour and intensely conservative.This week, at a moment of historic triumph for the Disney empire, I found myself reviewing notes of my Walt Disney encounter .
And money was a problem. Wall Street was aware that five of the seven major Hollywood studios were in the red and that MGM was about to default on its bank loans. Walt also knew that corporate raiders like Kirk Kerkorian were staring at the Hollywood assets; he was determined to keep the barbarians behind the gates.
“We do our best when we work with our own stories,” he said to me in 1965. “People keep urging me to make, but we’d be crucified if we didn’t get it perfect.” He added: “I got trapped into makingagain and it was a terrible disappointment. It’s tough to transfer whimsy to the screen.” Surely a key obstacle to a harmonious partnership between the two icons would have been philosophical. During my interview with Walt Disney, I took note of his heavy-lidded and rather mournful eyes, which grew dim when social issues were raised. As an old-line Midwesterner, Walt was appalled by the clout of labor unions. He was utterly baffled in 1964 by Barry Goldwater’s inability to gain traction against Lyndon Johnson’s ideas of social justice.
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