March 02, 2004

Obsessive Fans Join Disney's Proxy Fight





jim hill
Congratulations to our colleague Jim Hill for making an appearence on the front page, above the fold, in today's Wall Street Journal - in a story about "Obsessive Fans Join Disney's Proxy Fight"
Jim gave a cool suggestion to Roy Disney: "Why don't you get a busload of animators up to Philadelphia?" the site of Disney's March 3 annual meeting. Jim recalled the 1940s demonstration when Disney animators picketed the studio with signs bearing hand-drawn Disney characters.
"Consider it pitched," Mr. Disney responded. But the idea later was nixed.

Read the article here.

Posted by at March 2, 2004 08:00 PM