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'''Jeffrey Katzenberg''' (born December 21, 1950) is a [[liberal]] [[progressive]] Hollywood executive. Born and raised in in Manhattan, he was educated at the Ethical Culture school and graduated in 1969. he enrolled in New York University at 1971, only to drop out a year later in order to participate in [[John Lindsay]]'s failed attempt at securing the Democrat Party nomination for the 1972 presidential elections.<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/jeffrey-katzenberg</ref> This had not been his first time working in Lindsay's campaign, as he had worked in his mayoral campaign in 1965, back when he was 14 years old. A year later, he found work as an assistant to the independent film producer [[David Picker]], with the latter introducing him to [[Paramount Pictures]] chairman Barry Diller shortly thereafter, who hired him first for the marketing division and then was sent to the TV division to revive the ''Star Trek'' franchise.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=sji-T_HeMV8C&pg=PT125&lpg=PT125&dq=Katzenberg+and+%22david+picker%22&source=bl&ots=9Ak8hcvYdK&sig=j9VyeP_cQwMWcOA_ocYlthenYOc&hl=en&ei=EjyBTo6oCcLn0QGolZmTAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Katzenberg%20and%20%22david%20picker%22&f=false</ref> He worked his way to the top in a nine-year period, which was presumably around the time he met with and befriended [[Michael Eisner]]. He was brought in alongside Eisner to work for Disney after leaving Paramount in 1984, acting as the CEO and Eisner's 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>https://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>https://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>https://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>

'''Jeffrey Katzenberg''' (born December 21, 1950) is a [[liberal]] [[progressive]] Hollywood executive. Born and raised in in Manhattan, he was educated at the Ethical Culture school and graduated in 1969. Ethical Culture, a [[Secular Humanism|secular humanist]] religion,<ref>[http://openjurist.org/249/f2d/127 Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia], 101 U.S. App. D.C. 371, 249 F.2d 127. Cf. Jone Johnson Lewis, [http://aeuleaders.net/web/content/ethical-culture-religion Ethical Culture as Religion], American Ethical Union Library, 2003; Tom Flynn, [http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=main&page=sh_defined2 Secular Humanism Defined], Council for Secular Humanism; [http://www.americanhumanist.org/Who_We_Are/About_Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II Humanist Manifesto II], American Humanist Association</ref> is indifferent to the existence of [[God]], replacing the [[Ten Commandments]]<ref>[http://www.ethicalsociety.org/article.php?id=30 Is Ethical Culture based on Judaism and the Ten Commandments?], Washington Ethical Society</ref> with a commitment to "social justice."<ref>Joseph Chuman, [http://www.ethicalfocus.org/dr-joe-chuman/chuman-platforms/113-ethical-culture-and-the-ongoing-quest-for-social-justice Ethical Culture and the Ongoing Quest for Social Justice], The Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County</ref> Such an education conditions students to yield to "the totalitarian temptation,"<ref>An "unacknowledged desire to live under Stalinism, not in spite of what it is, but because of what it is." Jean François Revel, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=HTqFAAAAMAAJ The Totalitarian Temptation]'' (Doubleday, 1977) ISBN 0385122748, p. 25</ref> as [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1974/hayek.html Nobel Prize-winning] economist [[Friedrich Hayek]] observed:

{{cquote|'Social justice' can be given a meaning only in a directed or 'command' economy (such as an army) in which the individuals are ordered what to do; and any particular conception of 'social justice' could be realized only in such a centrally-directed system.<ref>Friedrich August Hayek, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=qq6p11NPdOoC Law, Legislation and Liberty: The Mirage of Social Justice]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1978) ISBN 0226320839, p. 69</ref>}} This explains why he often pursued far-left agendas in his various works and supported far-left candidates. He enrolled in New York University at 1971, only to drop out a year later in order to participate in [[John Lindsay]]'s failed attempt at securing the Democrat Party nomination for the 1972 presidential elections.<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/jeffrey-katzenberg</ref> This had not been his first time working in Lindsay's campaign, as he had worked in his mayoral campaign in 1965, back when he was 14 years old. A year later, he found work as an assistant to the independent film producer [[David Picker]], with the latter introducing him to [[Paramount Pictures]] chairman Barry Diller shortly thereafter, who hired him first for the marketing division and then was sent to the TV division to revive the ''Star Trek'' franchise.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=sji-T_HeMV8C&pg=PT125&lpg=PT125&dq=Katzenberg+and+%22david+picker%22&source=bl&ots=9Ak8hcvYdK&sig=j9VyeP_cQwMWcOA_ocYlthenYOc&hl=en&ei=EjyBTo6oCcLn0QGolZmTAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Katzenberg%20and%20%22david%20picker%22&f=false</ref> He worked his way to the top in a nine-year period, which was presumably around the time he met with and befriended [[Michael Eisner]]. He was brought in alongside Eisner to work for Disney after leaving Paramount in 1984, acting as the CEO and Eisner's enforcer for the animation department, and was Chairman by the 1990s. He was also credited for the resulting Disney Renaissance starting with ''The Little Mermaid'', although it is to be noted that evidence existed that pointed to the Renaissance happening in spite of Katzenberg rather than him actually creating it.<ref>https://collider.com/jeffrey-katzenberg-disney-renaissance-impact-influence-explained/</ref><ref>https://insidethemagic.net/2020/05/disney-renaissance-jeffrey-katzenberg-tm1/</ref> 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>https://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>https://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>https://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>