Disney

In his essay, “Good Day at Pride Rock” (Aug. 16), Robert A. Jones claims I once said that “Disney’s emotions seem to have been manufactured at a hidden platitude factory in Burbank and that they never vary whether the product is Snow White or Lion King.” I have never said or written (or thought) any such thing--as perhaps the absence of quotation marks around the opinion attributed to me in Jones’ piece may suggest to the alert reader.

In a book I wrote long before the present management took over the company I registered a certain dubiety about the Disney sensibility of the time. I share Jones’ concerns about the recent concentration of media power, but the sentiments I expressed over a quarter century ago are not entirely applicable to what is, in effect, a completely new corporate entity. In any case, like everybody else, I really hate it when people put words into my mouth--especially when they misrepresent my opinions on complicated critical issues.

RICHARD SCHICKEL

Los Angeles