| Pixar a big show at Disney shareholder meeting
Chief Executive Bob Iger may have had top billing at Walt Disney Co.'s shareholder meeting Friday in Anaheim, but it was Pixar's John Lasseter who stole the show. Lasseter, who will become Disney's chief creative officer with the Burbank entertainment company's $7.4-billion acquisition of the computer-animation pioneer, regaled the Arrowhead Pond crowd with unscreened snippets of "Cars" and "Ratatouille," the company's next two releases. The free-spirited Lasseter, who said he "wore black tennis shoes" because his wife told him to dress up for the meeting, also pledged to maintain Pixar's unparalleled standard of quality on Disney's future animated releases. Lasseter, who directed such groundbreaking films as "Toy Story," is Pixar's creative guru.
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