Darn it! I'll be in the area - but I'm doing Westfest (the Disney Podcast Network's DL meet). I'll have a car and an AP... maybe I can sneak away for a bit.

There's always too much going on that weekend.

Well, I got to go today. Didn't do much more than walk around but... the highlights included

- Ray Bradbury - I purchased his book "The Homecoming" and got it signed. He's looking alot better than last year.

- Neil Gabler - author of Walt Disney - The Triumph of the American Imagination. He was part of a panel on 20th Century Biography which I went to. Apparently it was broadcast on C-SPAN - which I'd like to find and hope you all would seek this out to see the insights on "Disney." The other panelist wrote recent bio's on Einstein, Franklin Lloyd Wright and Upton Sinclair.

He talked about his book, why he wanted to write it and that it took over 7 years to write. He had contact with Diane Disney Miller and interviewed her and she made herself available throughout the writing of the book. He had "unlimited" access to the Disney vaults and said that he had read "every letter written too and from Walt." He also said the Disney Company had no input into any edits of the book, which is an interesting point. After the program, he, and the others, signed their books and I got my book signed.

Wow! How did he manage that!?! (Was Sylvia Browne his co-author?) :)

That would be a Biography. An Autobiography is when one writes it about themselves. Walt would have had to have written the Autobiography of Walt.


I'm pretty sure that is what Flippyshark was saying.

Yep. That's what I was saying. (And no, I don't for a moment think that Sylvia Browne could really help anyone write a posthumous autobiography.)

Oh dear this is giving me flashbacks to elementary school. I did a book report on Black Beauty and described it as the autobiography of a horse. My teacher scoffed but that's what it said on the title page of the book.

Scarred me for life.

doh! biography... :blush:

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index....70&schedID=485

You can view the panel with Neil Gabler and others as he talks about Disney. The section is about 4:28:00 on the counter so you'd have to fast forward or move to that section.

Check it out!

... and the Michael Barrier MousePod will be up next week (shameless plug).