Print and broadcast media have explored Ozark culture broadly. Books set in the Ozarks include Where the Red Fern Grows, The Shepherd of the Hills and As a Friend. The 1999 film Ride with the Devil, based on the book Woe to Live On, depicts warfare in Southwest Missouri during the Civil War.
The late story artist Joe Ranft is named a Disney Legend. The Walt Disney Company announces that it has agreed to purchase Pixar Animation Studios. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter also assume leadership of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
In the movie she is known as Elastigirl, but because of the licensing agreement with DC Comics - who actually owns the name - Pixar was the only entity allowed to use the name. Since the contract did not extend to all of Disney, she is known as Mrs. Incredible outside of the film itself.