Great LA Magazine piece about the ongoing fight over the merchandising rights to Winnie the Pooh, between Disney and the heirs of Milne's agent, in the style of Winnie the Pooh:
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In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Lawyers, and the Stories Begin
HERE IS EDWARD BEAR, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, sitting upright in an office chair at a Century City law firm. A lawsuit has been filed against the Walt Disney Company. The lawsuit sometimes makes Pooh feel like he's been dragged down the stairs, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, and sometimes it's hard to know if it is Walt Disney that Pooh feels dragged by or if it is someone else. Maybe the lawsuit is a bother and there is another way, if only Pooh could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.
As Pooh tries to give his mind to the matter, Bertram Fields–the man who calls himself Pooh's lawyer–appears in the 20th-floor conference room of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella, where Pooh happens to be sitting. "Hello, ladies," the fearsome Hollywood litigator says to four women who sit around a circular table. Fields turns to a fifth chair, the one occupied by the huge stuffed bear. "Hello, Pooh," he says.
(Thanks, Pat!)
