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'''Jeffrey Katzenberg''' (born 1950) is a [[liberal]] [[progressive]] Hollywood executive. He was brought in alongside [[Michael Eisner]] to work for Disney, acting as his enforcer for the animation department, and was Chairman by the 1990s. During this time, he also demanded for a "[[feminism|feminist]] twist" to be inserted into the plot of the third draft for the then in-development film ''Beauty and the Beast'', and also hired [[Linda Woolverton]] to write the film to ensure it.<ref>http://articles.mcall.com/1991-11-22/features/2825583_1_beast-s-castle-fairy-tale-madame-gabrielle</ref> Similarly, he also demanded that Pixar, when making ''Toy Story'', make it "adult, cynical, and edgy" in terms of story, which nearly destroyed Pixar as a result.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2010/07/07/we-love-pixar-how-hollywood-cynicism-almost-ruined-toy-story-and-pixar/</ref> After he was forced into retirement in 1994 due to infighting with Eisner, he proceeded to form his own animation company, the struggling<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/01/23/wall-street-dreamworks-animation-one-flop-from-extinction/</ref> [[DreamWorks SKG]] with [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[David Geffen]]. Infamously, one of his earliest projects at DreamWorks, ''Antz'', he had plagiarized from John Lasseter's ''A Bug's Life'' concept and claimed it as his own work.<ref>Isaacson, Walter (2011). Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 307. ISBN 1-4516-4853-7.</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/19991128083348/http://www.businessweek.com/1998/47/b3605013.htm</ref> Like most Hollywood liberal producers (and in contradiction of their horror at the Hollywood blacklists), Katzenberg was not above using the blacklist for any people who managed to upset him in any way, which was revealed when he alongside fellow DreamWorks founder Geffen blacklisted Mel Gibson from future productions of DreamWorks simply because of the financial success of ''The Passion of the Christ''.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/blog/index.asp</ref>
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'''Jeffrey Katzenberg''' (born 1950) is a [[liberal]] [[progressive]] Hollywood executive. He was brought in alongside [[Michael Eisner]] to work for Disney, acting as his enforcer for the animation department, and was Chairman by the 1990s. During this time, he also demanded for a "[[feminism|feminist]] twist" to be inserted into the plot of the third draft for the then in-development film ''Beauty and the Beast'', and also hired [[Linda Woolverton]] to write the film to ensure it.<ref>http://articles.mcall.com/1991-11-22/features/2825583_1_beast-s-castle-fairy-tale-madame-gabrielle</ref> Similarly, he also demanded that Pixar, when making ''Toy Story'', make it "adult, cynical, and edgy" in terms of story, which nearly destroyed Pixar as a result.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2010/07/07/we-love-pixar-how-hollywood-cynicism-almost-ruined-toy-story-and-pixar/</ref> After he was forced into retirement in 1994 due to infighting with Eisner, he proceeded to form his own animation company, the struggling<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/01/23/wall-street-dreamworks-animation-one-flop-from-extinction/</ref> [[DreamWorks SKG]] with [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[David Geffen]]. Infamously, one of his earliest projects at DreamWorks, ''Antz'', he had plagiarized from John Lasseter's ''A Bug's Life'' concept and claimed it as his own work.<ref>Isaacson, Walter (2011). Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 307. ISBN 1-4516-4853-7.</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/19991128083348/http://www.businessweek.com/1998/47/b3605013.htm</ref> Like most Hollywood liberal producers (and in contradiction of their horror at the Hollywood blacklists), Katzenberg was not above using the blacklist for any people who managed to upset him in any way, which was revealed when he alongside fellow DreamWorks founder Geffen blacklisted Mel Gibson from future productions of DreamWorks simply because of the financial success of ''The Passion of the Christ''.<ref>http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/04/02/Gibson_film2.html</ref>
     
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