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• Ed Boone is imagined.

• In the scene that takes place on September 16, 1983, many of the
details are imagined, as is most of the dialogue, including all of Ron Miller’s dialogue. There are many different perspectives about the pros and cons of Disney’s strategy during the 1980s. We have told the story from the perspective of John Lasseter. Others involved might believe that Lasseter oversimplified what he saw as problems at Disney.

• In the scene that takes place on May 28, 1985, the dialogue is imagined and the characterization of the differences between Jobs and Sculley has been greatly simplified. Sculley was undoubtedly right about some things, and Jobs was undoubtedly wrong about some things—but this scene is meant to portray their differences from Jobs’s perspective.

• The scene that takes place on January 30, 1986, is imagined, including the dialogue and some details.

• In the scene on April 5, 1988, some details and most of the dialogue are imagined, although the final quote (“Make it great, John”) is from the historical record.

• The scene on May 31, 1990, is imagined, including the dialogue. Unless otherwise noted in the sourcing above, Katzenberg’s dialogue in this chapter is imagined.

• In the scene that takes place on January 16, 1991, some details are imagined.

• In the scene that occurs on September 10, 1993, some details and some dialogue are imagined.

• The scene that takes place on December 1, 1994, is imagined, including the dialogue.

• Details included in the scene that occurs on July 20, 1995, are imagined. Some dialogue is imagined, while some is based on a statement Sonsini made in a meeting with Pixar executives, as reported in David Price’s
The Pixar Touch.
Sonsini said, “Look, Steve is not going to take this company public. . . . He cannot take this company public. This company is fifty million dollars in deficit and has no revenue” (Price, 148). Some dialogue by Sonsini in this scene is imagined.

• In the scene that takes place on November 29, 1995, the dialogue is imagined, though some of it is based on statements Jobs made on other occasions. Some details are also imagined, including the initial skepticism of these particular underwriters about going public. The characterization of their skepticism is based on Price’s statement: “One financial adviser after another told him to forget about it. At the time, the notion of a public stock offering for a company that had never even turned a profit was alien to the thinking of serious investors” (Price, 143).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Beck, Glenn.

 Dreamers and deceivers : true stories of the heroes and villains who made America / Glenn Beck.

  pages  cm

 Summary: “Glenn Beck provides stories of the people who built America and the people who sought to destroy it”—Provided by publisher.

 1. Heroes—United States. 2. Villains in popular culture—United States.  3. United States—Biography. I. Title.

 E176.B384 2014

 305.9'06920973—dc23

2014032810

ISBN 978-1-4767-8389-5

ISBN 978-1-4767-8715-2 (ebook)