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Re: Re: [dvd-discuss] winnie the pooh lawsuit against Disney dismissed




On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 jerwin@ponymail.com wrote:
> Salon recently published a short little essay on Disney's Great
> Illustrated Classics Series, which apparently is supplanting the
> original versions of "Black Beauty", "Wind in the Willows", and other
> works of Children's literature, with bowdlerized, abridged versions.
>
> http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/03/29/willows/index.html

It's a good article on the dumbing down of culture...

but Great Illustrated Classics are not a Disney product, from what I can
tell... they're from Baronet Books.  I can't find anything about who owns
that.

J.
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