I'm reading James B. Stewart's Disney War (I vaguely recall someone on my flist reviewing it, but that was a while back and my memory's dodgy) and there's this bit about the conception Fantasia 2000's "Pomp and Circumstance" sequence that made laugh out loud.

(Michael) Eisner proceeded to outline a plot for the segnment: all the classic Disney heroes and heroines -- Cinderella and Prince Charming, Ariel and Eric -- march in a wedding procession carrying their future babies, which they would present in a ceremony. There was dead silence in the room. "Okay," Roy finally said, with notably little enthusiasm.

When Eisner left, the animators were in an uproar. "Pomp and Circumstance" might have been classic graduation music, but the animators (and many critics) deemed it mediocre even by Elgar standards. Roy hated the idea. The mass wedding procession seemed like something out a Korean religious cult. And showing the hallowed Disney characters as married with babies implied they had engaged in sex.* The very thought was unsettling. Still, Roy reluctantly concluded they would have to try to implent Eisner's idea.

*WHAT DOES ROY THINK ABOUT THE LITTLE MERMAID II: RETURN TO THE SEA? OR SIMBA'S PRIDE AND PETER PAN 2: RETURN TO NEVERLAND? LOLOLOLOL

Sorry, I shouldn't laugh at your pain. I feel the pain, too, though it's, naturally, nowhere near your level of pain. I LOL because it's better than the alternative.

Several animators were assigned the task, and came up with a mythological Greco-Roman setting paraded for the ceremony, with classic architecture and gardens. Various characters paraded by carrying babies or pushing them in perambulators and strollers. When they unveiled the segment to Roy and the other animators, there was stunned silence.

I want to see these early tests so bad! XD XD XD

So far, fabulous book, makes me constantly want to throw up to think about all the internal politics behind the movies I adore and the general messed-up-ness of what it takes to get mainstream movies/television shows made, but I try to soothe myself by going LOL a lot, I think that's clear.

ETA: Another bit that made me cackle evilly:

After the success of Armageddon, Roth had moved swiftly to sign director Michael Bay to another project with Jerry Bruckheimer. But nothing Roth offered Bay captured his interest, a task made more difficult by the fact that Bay didn't read scripts, or, as far as Roth could tell, much of anything else.