Walt Disney liked Baskett, and told his sister, Ruth Disney, that Baskett was " the best actor, I believe, to be discovered in years.

This included claiming ( with no corroboration or citing of sources ) that Rudolph Valentino liked to play a sexually submissive role to dominant women, that Walt Disney was a drug-user, addicted to opiates ( reflected in the character of Goofy, who's perpetually stoned on cannabis ), as well as describing the nature of the deaths of Peg Entwistle and Lupe Vélez.

Monroe liked and encouraged Sandburg's plain-speaking free verse style, strongly reminiscent of Walt Whitman.

If Walt liked something, we knew damn well it had to be good ; it had to be successful.

But when nobody wanted to hire him as either an artist or even as an ambulance driver, his brother Roy, then working in a local bank, got Walt a temporary job through a bank colleague at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio where he created advertisements for newspapers, magazines, and movie theaters.

Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the businesses that had sprung up around Disneyland and wanted control of a much larger area of land for the new project.

EPCOT is an acronym of Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which was the name originally given by Walt Disney to a conceptual Utopian city of the future that he had wanted to build on the site that is now Walt Disney World.

Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film based on the Uncle Remus storybook, but it wasn't until the mid-1940s that he had found a way to give the stories an adequate film equivalent, in scope and fidelity.

Aoki has said that he wanted to bring martial arts to the same level of attainment as the works of great Western artists such as Beethoven, Van Gogh or Dostoyevsky, or the American writers he admired, notably Henry Miller, Jackson Pollock or Walt Whitman.

It is believed that Walt would have wanted his offices to be reused.

Tribune editor Joseph Patterson wanted to attract women to the strip by introducing a baby, but Walt was not married.

The cartoon featured Bosko at odds with his animator – portrayed in live-action by Rudy Ising ; impressed Leon Schlesinger, who paired Harman and Ising with Warner Bros. Schlesinger wanted the Bosko character to star in a new series of cartoons he dubbed Looney Tunes ( the title being a parody of Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies ).

When Walt Disney Theatrical president Thomas Schumacher met Mackintosh in 2001, Schumacher found out Mackintosh wanted to make Mary Poppins from screen to stage.

Walt Disney wanted it to have four courses of all jumpers.

Since the location was remote in the 1950s, Walt Disney wanted to build a hotel so that Disneyland visitors traveling long distances could stay overnight.

Walt Disney originally wanted to build more facilities for Disneyland visitors to stay in Anaheim, but since all his financial resources were drained, entrepreneurs established their own hotels and other hospitality industry businesses in the area surrounding the park and hotel, eager to capitalize on Disneyland's success.

To Walt Disney's dismay, the city of Anaheim, eager for the tax revenue generated by more hotels in the city, was lax in restricting their construction, and the area surrounding Disneyland became the atmosphere of colorful lights and flashy neon signs that he had wanted to avoid ( and which years earlier had caused the city of Burbank to deny his initial request to build his project in Burbank ).

In 2001, Walt Disney Pictures began to consider producing a sequel, but rather than using stop motion, Disney wanted to use computer animation.

In 1951, while in a London model-making shop, he met Walt Disney when they both wanted to buy the same model train.

The trend re-established itself in the late 1990s and early 2000s with a much higher threshold of what was considered outrageous: parents of 1997 to 2004 typically thought nothing of buying their preschool daughters and sons platform sandals that parents of 1973 would not have wanted their older children wearing, and the Walt Disney Company licensed Mickey Mouse cutouts and Disney Princess and Action Man images on footwear that in earlier decades would have been considered totally inappropriate for the company's " wholesome " image.

Walt Disney also wanted to make use of Audio-Animatronic technology within Club 33.

Kelly and MGM had originally wanted Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse as Kelly's dance partner for the sequence, but Disney was unwilling to license the character.

Reds GM Walt Jocketty expressed that he wanted to bring back Cabrera at a price lower than the $ 4 million option.

Originally the writers wanted Mickey Mouse but Roy O. Disney ( Walt Disney's brother and financial adviser ) refused to give the rights to the character, so Jerry Mouse was used instead.

Walt Disney Pictures wanted to make a film that dealt with miniaturization.

The filmmakers devised a $ 24 million production budget, but Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, TriStar Pictures and Paramount Pictures wanted Coppola and Lucas to lower it to $ 15 million.

Initially, Walt Disney wanted a Polynesian resort ( reflecting Adventureland ), the Contemporary Resort to echo Tomorrowland, and other resorts that mirrored the ' lands ' of the Magic Kingdom.

As mentioned previously, Walt Disney's Food Will Win the War ( 1942 ) attempts to make US citizens feel good by using US agriculture as a means of power.

Universal, not Disney, owned the Oswald trademark, and could make the films without Walt.

Disney CEO Michael Eisner took an especially keen interest in the development of the new town in the early days, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to " make history " and develop a town worthy of the Disney brand and legacy that extended to Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ( EPCOT ).

" That's exactly why I want you to work on it ," Walt told him, " because I know that you don't think I should make the movie.

Saludos Amigos was popular enough that Walt Disney decided to make another film about Latin America, The Three Caballeros, to be produced two years later.

Sweeney had also said that the main goal of the programming on Disney Channel was not to entertain, but to solely make money, officially stating that Disney Channel would be " the major profit driver for the ( Walt Disney ) Company.

" In 1953, during a rare meeting between the Warners and the studio's cartoon makers, Jack confessed that he didn't " even know where the hell the cartoon studio is ", and Harry added, " The only thing I know is that we make Mickey Mouse ," a reference to the flagship character of a competing company, Walt Disney Productions.

This was to make sure that Walt Disney could have full control over every part of the property, even how the buildings were constructed.

The Band and Choir also make a trip every four years to the Walt Disney World Resort in central Florida to participate in Disney's Magic Music Days Program.

Sometimes, as in We Two Boys Together Clinging ( 1961 ), named after a poem by Walt Whitman, these works make reference to his love for men.

Noted musicians who played in Jones ' band included Louis Panico, Benny Goodman ( although he did not make any records during the short time he was with them ), Woody Herman, Walt Yoder, and Roy Bargy.

To help make a respectful adaptation, del Toro has contacted Walt Disney World Imagineer Jason Surrell, author of The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies, to act as a possible consultant for the film.

Chang had her recital at Carnegie Hall on April 7, 2007 with British pianist Ashley Wass, and continued to perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen and make appearances with the former at both the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall throughout 2008.

Some failures have changed a company's agenda, such as Walt Disney Pictures ' decision to make only computer-animated features, which stemmed from several disappointing traditionally-animated releases, including Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Treasure Planet.

* Walt Teaser-a schoolboy who would make fun at his classmates or anyone who catches his attention-but they always end up with the last laugh.

The history of Walt Disney's association with Lewis Carroll's Alice books ( Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass ) stretches all the way back to 1923, when Disney was still a 21-year-old filmmaker trying to make a name for himself in Kansas City.

For Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega contacted DiC Entertainment ( which at the time was owned by The Walt Disney Company ), who previously made the TV shows Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series, to make the new Sonic cartoon.

In 1858, Walt Whitman, one of Hicks's most famous exponents, astutely assessed Hicks as " a wonderful compound of the mystic with the logical reasoner ," and explained that Hicks was " destined to make a radical revolution in a numerous and devout Society, and his influence to be largely felt outside of that Society ..." The Quaker theology of " God within " ( another name for the Inner Light ) appeared subsequently in the theory of the Free Love movement, where it was deemed compatible with the religious sociology of Charles Fourier.

The Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts currently make use of this idea, in their 3-D films and other attractions.

In 1944, he had entered into unsuccessful negotiations with Walt Disney to make six to twelve educational films annually.

On the 2008 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade special, Disney announced that a Tinker Bell float would be added to Disney's Electrical Parade, which would make it the first new float to be added to the classic parade in 20 years, since the temporary Mickey Mouse's 60th Birthday float in 1988.