David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah, I mean, if you are a little bit younger than David and I, call it 25, maybe 30, you probably don't actually have any Disney movies from your childhood that you remember the way that we remember "Aladdin" and "The Lion King" and "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast." Yep, totally. But yeah, back to Roy and this Save Disney Campaign. I mean, look, Roy, as we already talked about earlier, he's a complicated guy. He's so upset about Disney Animation. I mean, technically, he's the one in charge of Disney Animation. So like, who's he upset at here? Like himself? But I think really, like, what this is really about and Roy's superpower for Disney was that even if he wasn't, you know, the best executive or leader or in touch with the marketplace, as evidenced by the total flop of "Fantasia 2000. " He absolutely was the steward and protector of the Disney spirit. And it was so clear that the Disney spirit, the creative spirit, the spirit that made these timeless stories that got handed down from generation to generation, had left the building. And the company's just spread too thin. It's got two completely different business models doing two completely different things from this merger with ABC.…

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