I think it's very nice that Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney's legendary "nine old men" was honored this last week with the National Medal of Arts. But really…did someone say, "Hey, almost all of the greats of theatrical animation are dead. Maybe we'd better give this award to one of them while there's still time"? They started this award informally in 1983 and more formally in '85. They could have given it to Chuck Jones and Walter Lantz and Grim Natwick and four or five of the other Nine Old men. Ollie had to be sitting there thinking, "Why couldn't they have done this fourteen months ago when Frank [Thomas] was still around to receive it with me?"