Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince is a biography by Marc Eliot, presenting a darker picture of entertainer Walt Disney than his popular perception. Eliot alleges lifelong anti-Semitism and presents, among other bases for this charge, a deleted scene from the 1933 Silly Symphony Three Little Pigs in which the Big Bad Wolf dresses as a Jewish peddler. Eliot also alleges covert employment by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a spy against Communists in Hollywood, and intense right-wing politics. For example, the book claims that Disney wore a Barry Goldwater badge when receiving the Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson just before the 1964 election and alleges that Disney refused to lower the American flag at Disneyland after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The book has been sharply criticized and some of the book's claims have been disputed by other authors.
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Like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
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But indirectly or directly a commentary
On the Crucifixion?”
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