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.
Measured by almost any standard, artistic or financial, Disney's acquisition is arguably one of the best things that CEO Bob Iger has ever done. Only the company's acquisition of Pixarâwhich the company bought in 2006 for about $8 billionâeven comes close and that's mostly thanks to home video sales. If you look at the simplest measure of value, Disney's share price, you can see some of the power of the Marvel deal.