I love the story about the making of "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea." It was Disney's first really big-budget live-action film, and Walt asked his advisers to recommend an available Hollywood director who could do it justice. They came back with the name Richard Fleischer -- the son of Max Fleischer, who had been Walt's bitter rival in animation a generation earlier. Richard Fleischer, brought in for an interview, sheepishly asks if Walt knows who he is, and Walt says that, yes, he does. Fleischer asks his father for his blessing before taking the job, and the elder Fleischer says that it's all water under the bridge, and the live-action project sounds like a great opportunity -- which, of course, it was.