The problem in Hollywood is that there are no more producers like Disney, or De Mille, or Louis Mayer, which is why so many contemporary films are crap." Bette Davis's eyes flash as she adds, "People are surprised when the public rejects remakes of popular films. Well, of course they are! You can tell the story of King Kong or The Postman Always Rings Twice, but how do you capture the heart when producers today are just people who raise money? A banker isn't going to take charge when you're in a mess, or care when you have a director who you know is terrible. He doesn't give a damn about the finished product."
Without the personal genius of Disney himself, Walt Disney Productions, once the polestar of fantasy filmmaking, has been lading for years.
'Because that studio was so much Walt Disney's vision his loss has been acutely felt," says Miss Davis, who marks her fifty-first year as a screen actress by starring in Disney's ambitious science-fiction film The Watcher in the Woods. "But this is not a problem only at Disney. It's also true at Warner Brothers, MGM, Paramount, Universal, and Twentieth Century-Fox, […]
