Neal Gabler at LAT BOOK FESTIVAL part 2

Neal Gabler discusses Walt Disney at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 28th 2007.

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[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

[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]

@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

[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]

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

[trollheimer]

@dandy97 I hope you're being sarcastic.

[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.

[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?