And I said, 'No, can't do it.' |
By lowering that bar and making kids believe that it's OK to do or say anything you want to at any given time gives no balance whatsoever, ... There's no longer any right or wrong. |
The first Benji came out of a shelter and, without a whole lot of mission and passion attached -- just that it was a neat thing -- caused over a million adoptions. And so we said 'If we go back at it with a little fervor, we ought to be able to do a lot better than that and help a lot of these homeless animals,' |
The first order of business was getting the rights cleaned up. So, we went through expedited arbitration ... Four and a half years, and my entire retirement [fund] later, we got all the rights back clean and clear, |
Very mild. Very, very mild over previous years. And that doesn't include any overtime costs or any of the repair bills from the plow trucks. |
We decided a long time ago that we were going to stay away from that. |
We had some significant repair bills last year and we ended up replacing one truck due to an accident. Hopefully, we won't have to touch it and we'll be ready for the start of next year. |
We spent about a year negotiating with Hollywood. Wound up negotiating real seriously with three studios -- a big one, a medium one and a small one. Every one of them came down to the same thing, control, |