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It would be nice if Milne's heirs could get a piece of the money. But failing that, nothing could please me more than to see Michael Eisner lose another big one. Few people deserve it more.

To be frank, I grew up on the Milne books with the Shepherd drawings and read them to all of my children. As a consequence, I think the Disney version of Pooh--both the graphics and the story--is grotesque and horrible. The same is true of Kipling's Jungle Books comparted to the Disney version. Ugh. Eisner's multicultural Mowgli is an atrocity.

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"As a consequence, I think the Disney version of Pooh--both the graphics and the story--is grotesque and horrible. The same is true of Kipling's Jungle Books comparted to the Disney version. Ugh. Eisner's multicultural Mowgli is an atrocity."

Absolutely, positively agree. My granddaughters are being raised on the books -- original Milne and Kipling texts and illustrations -- not on the Disneyfied characters.