![]() ![]() Travers is one of the only authors who ever stood up to the Disney juggernaut, demanding a level of involvement and approval that most in her position were denied. ![]() Or that’s the story Disney is selling, with the ultra-likable Tom Hanks in the role of Walt and Emma Thompson playing Travers, a woman the actress referred to in an interview as “so awful and so irritating.” Another recent story, in Variety, called her “a pill no spoonful of sugar could sweeten.”Ĭan’t a feisty literary legend catch a break? Banks,” about the studio’s - and Walt’s - struggles to wrest the magical tale from the grasping talons of the tiresome spinster who penned it. Travers would go on to experience that personally: She is the author of the “Mary Poppins” series, and the subject of the forthcoming Disney movie, “Saving Mr. ![]() Travers, writing about the movie “Snow White” in 1937, pronounced Walt Disney a shameless purveyor of cheeseball crap: “There is a profound cynicism,” she wrote, “at the root of his, as of all, sentimentality.” Two people banned from Disney World after caught-on-camera brawl over photo op: policeīob Iger faces many hurdles as Disney set to report earningsĭisney staffers laughed at disabled woman before she fell off ride and later died, lawsuit claimsĪs a film reviewer, a young British woman named P.L. Judge in Disney-DeSantis case steps down, claims conflict over family member's stock ![]()
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