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• Dear Mr. Katzenberg,

  How do you reconcile being called a Visionary, an Innovator and a Producer, when you also had a hand in the closing down of the Long-Term Care Facility at the Motion Picture Home, where the most vulnerable in the Industry go to die? “We take care of our own” is the founding statement.

  Can you be a Visionary and Innovator and Produce a place for our Seniors to live in dignity instead of fear? I’m sure you are taking care of your own family in great style. There are many Seniors and people right behind them who have done the best they could in their lives, but haven’t the money to have a full-time nurse at home.

  We take care of our own. Please don’t re-create Soylent Green or Logan’s Run.

  Let our own die with dignity.

  Comment by really? — Saturday June 6, 2009 @ 8:32pm PST  Reply to this post

• It’s telling that many of the companies on this list (even the more famous ones) have yet to turn a profit.

  Comment by tammanycall — Saturday June 6, 2009 @ 8:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• You’re right, Tammany. Rockstar, Apple, Pixar, ILM, Amazon, YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, Dreamworks, and Nintendo are really struggling out there.

  Comment by Random_Tangent — Sunday June 7, 2009 @ 12:58pm PST  Reply to this post

• Ummmm where is Leo Laporte?
  Ashton Kucher and no Leo Laporte?
  Are You kidding me?

  Comment by Moose — Sunday June 7, 2009 @ 2:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• this seems sort of pointless… (they could at least honor people more relevant to the year’s happenings)

  Comment by whatever — Sunday June 7, 2009 @ 6:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• People said the same things about Friendster.

  Both Myspace and Facebook have yet to make a profit: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=5498194&page=1

  Dreamworks had to go begging for money a few months ago (Ms. Finke’s done many posts on this story, so has the New York Times.)

  Google’s about to get hit with anti-trust lawsuits & legislation, the ads aren’t as profitable as they used to be, its execs are jumping to hotter (unprofitable, but NEWER) startups like Twitter, and they’ve been slow on advancing video search. They laid off employees for the first time ever this year.

  Youtube is losing professional content to Hulu but made the silly mistake to service everyone all over the world, so it has to deal with the bandwith issues from users in Asia without the payoff of getting eyeballs advertisers care about. That’s incredibly expensive. And there will only be more copyright lawsuits in its future.

  Apple’s stock price fluctuates wildly based on the health of its figurehead founder. And he’s just coming back from an illness that almost killed him. Most reports say too soon. Unfortunately, the company seems to be completely dependent on him.

  That’s off the top of my head. Yeah, most of these companies are in trouble. But that’s obvious by reading the paper, or seeing how many of their employees are getting laid off.

  Comment by tammanycall — Sunday June 7, 2009 @ 7:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• Wow. 1 woman out of 25 or so..

  Comment by susan — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 12:43pm PST  Reply to this post