A reporter asked Walt Disney how it felt to be a celebrity. “It feels fine,” he replied, “when being a celebrity helps me get a choice reservation for a football game.… As far as I can remember, being a celebrity has never helped me make a good picture, or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter, or impress my wife. It doesn’t even seem to help keep fleas off our dogs and, if being a celebrity won’t give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can’t be that much in being a celebrity after all.”