'Inventing the Movies' excerpt in Variety, and Book Talk in Bay Area

Variety was nice enough to run an excerpt from my new book Inventing the Movies this week. It deals with some of the early interactions between Pixar and Disney.

They also ran some "exclusive" content -- a list of several of the worst predictions ever about the future of the movies.

Also: If you live in the San Francisco area, I'll be giving a (free) public talk about the book on October 19th in Berkeley, at the Hillside Club. More info about that and other events is here.