Posted by Mike Field on April 08, 2004 at 10:22:34 from 203.166.84.210 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: posted by Mike Dennis on April 08, 2004 at 07:35:54:
I couldn't agree more about Disney-The-Pooh, Mike. I've just been (unavoidably) watching some of the videos, courtesy of my seven-year-old. They're appalling. The stories are their own inventions, not Alan Milne's, the characters are wrong, the illustrations (of course) aren't anything like Shepherd's, the voices are all American, and finally (and unbelievably) they've even written a bl**dy gopher into them! I ask you!
Personally, I'll never forgive the Milne executors (family, I understand) for selling a fine piece of English heritage to the Yanks (especially Disneys of all people,) or indeed the English government for not stepping in and buying them out instead.
Will Kenneth Grahame be next, maybe? Or Beatrix Potter perhaps?
Perish the very thought.