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Thanks to Walt for inspiring imagination
ByWes December 7, 2013December 7, 2013

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in December 2013: Thursday was Walt Disney’s birthday. If defrosted today, he would be 112 years old. I owe him a lot, despite the fact that he left this world just a few months after my birth in 1966. Without him, I never would’ve come up with my irreverent…

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When life hands you a Fastpass
ByWes November 2, 2013

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: By Wes Platt Janis Joplin wailed from Catherine’s pocket as Sam Eagle explained that he would perform a salute to all nations “but mostly America.” It was Sunday afternoon, Memorial Day weekend, and we were in the middle of the theater at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for Muppetvision 3D when…

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