If it ain't broke...

[Gary Leach]

I guess I would describe Gladstone's efforts as resuscitation more  
than anything else. We really were trying to see what life the ol'  
dog still had in her. Disney's mistake was thinking we'd found Ol'  
Yeller's  pups.

Gary

> On May 17th, Jonathan H. Gray wrote:
>
>> Disney sees this success, says "Hey, we can do this ourselves and get
>> more of a cut on this revenue!" takes it, and tries to change the
>> formula entirely (going back to "if it aint broke don't fix it")
>
> I'm going off on a tangent here, but... Many times, the phrase "if  
> it ain't
> broke, don't fix it" has been used to excuse doing absolutely  
> nothing. If
> you don't continuously freshen up the creative property you're working
> on, it will stagnate and eventually fall apart.
>
> That said, overall I preferred Gladstone's method of "fixing" the  
> earlier Whitman editorial standard to Disney's method of "fixing"  
> the Gladstone editorial standard (which I don't feel was as  
> necessary).
>
> Lars

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