Neal Gabler at LAT BOOK FESTIVAL part 2

[celestethoms]

I'm reading the book and I've read what Diane Miller said about the book. I can understand from her it's hard to read certain things about your parents from another persons perspective. But I found the book very good. I look at it as, not all books are really going to fully understand the man. They weren't will him day in and day out. I'm a big Walt Disney fan, I think he loved his family and loved his work and did the best he could just like any person can do. Great video, thanks for posting.

[trollheimer]

If you go to Michael Barrier's website, you can find a complete list of inaccuracies on Gabler's book.

[zimmerrocks]

LOL wow what does being a liberal have to do with his stories? I honestly think the book is alright, but its uncertain if this accurate. Honestly, the book from Diane Disney Miller is much better than Gablers. I mean, if you were famous and wanted someone to write about you, you want it to be your family and friends right?

[dandy97]

This is the most accurate and complete book about the life of Walt Disney. Thank you very much, Mr. Gabler.

[trollheimer]

@dandy97 I hope you're being sarcastic.

[dandy97]

@trollheimer

No, I'm not. I find most of the other biographies glossy and they cover up a lot of the vices that Walt Disney had and some of the "not-so-nice" things that he did. Gabler's book provided a good balance between the good and the bad about Walt Disney.

[trollheimer]

@dandy97 I'm sure that if you looked hard enough on the Internet you can find the Walt Disney Archives' Chief Archivist Davie Smith has a list of inaccuracies that are present in the book. Just go to Michael Barriers website. I'll send you a link. Truth of the matter is, if you want someone to write a completely accurate book on Disney, they have to be a Disney or animation historian, like Bob Thomas or Leonard Maltin, not some random guy who thought it would be interesting to write about Disney

[Simbaholic]

"He loved that studio more than anything." So apparently he loved the studio even more than he loved the studio. LOL. This guy fails so much. I read somewhere that Lillian Disney said Walt was a wonderful husband, and I'm much more willing to believe her than Neal Gabler.

[iloveadamfrankel]

this guy is so full of shit

[bigphil399]

I wonder how much Stabler talked to Roy Disney Jr. This was Walt's nephew who died in December. Roy was a huge part of the Disney corporatin before his death at 79. He would have worked closely with his father (Roy Sr.) and Walt himself. Other than Walt's children, who else would know more about the man than Roy Jr. that was still alive?

[bigphil399]

Actually I thank God that Walt did things his way and made no apologies. This is why we still love those classic movies and why millions of people are still captivated by his theme parks, including me. It is no coincidence that Disney movies have been missing something since Jungle Book which was the last movie Walt had his name to before he died. Only the Lion King compares with any old classic.

[bigphil399]

Well, Walt was a perfectionist. This is why he created so many things that make us happy today. If it upset the animators he worked for, or if it forced him to spend some time away from his family, well that's just the consequence of being so driven. I see nothing wrong with that.

Besides, here are the things that he accomplished: Disneyland, DisneyWorld, Snow White, Mickey, Minne, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Bambi, Dumbo, Pinnocchio, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty etc. All I can say is thanks Walt!

[whbon73]

I don't understand why people are so angry at this guy. I think his book fair and accurate. Walt was a brilliant and passionate artist. He was also a tough businessman who could be a tyrant around the studio. Gabler doesn't make him out to be a bad person, just human.

[KorAnos1]

What a self-absorbed distorter of a genius and a genuinely good man. Mr. Gabler sees only what he is capable of seeing about a brilliant inventor. If this is all that he's capable of envisioning, I can only imagine the corporate monster he would be if HE were in a Walt Disney position.

[hockeychaz92]

This guy is the typical elitist arrogant piece of trash liberal that the left wing liberals have brought up to pull Walt's name through the mud, and how he was given the green light by disney blows my mind, oh wait thats why, their are a ton of left wing liberal trash working at disney now. The Thomas book is a much better account of Walt, than Gablers book of slander could ever hope to be.

[654zns]

I've read the book and now that I look at it, it really does seem to label Walt as some sort of a monster which he really wasn't. He was just human like the rest of us. He loved his family, especially his wife who he stayed with until the day he died. He cared about his staff members as well. The only reason he pushed them was because he wanted to prove to them that they were capable of doing things that they never thought they could do. It's just a way to make him look bad.

[MissSterling1937]

This guy is a friggin joke..... and his book is terrible and a waste of money

[Marbles471]

Diane Disney Miller ended saying that the book was "a monstrous piece of libelous junk. My parents were not the people he creates in this book, and I cannot understand why all of you who aided and abetted Gabler in writing this book, and who praise it and promote it, can do so without suffering serious qualms."

I read it, and I can understand what her some of her objections might be (Gabler paints a rather sunless, joyless marriage) but I wish I could hear it straight from her. I'm curious.

[insanekefka]

Thank you so much for posting both videos