Speechwriting as a career option…
Speechwriting has played a part in a range of fascinating careers.
Marty Sklar once wrote speeches for Walt Disney. A report in the LA Times notes that the 72-year-old just retired as principal creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, the company’s storied theme park design and development arm.
Sklar condensed Walt Disney’s ideas into a widely circulated creed called “Mickey’s Ten Commandments.”
“He understands the Disney way because he learned it at Walt’s knee,” said Jim Cora, a former chairman of Disneyland International. “He is the keeper of the keys, the conscience, the Jiminy Cricket for the organization.”
For years, Sklar headed the creative development of Disney’s theme parks and led the company’s ventures in the cruise business, interactive TV, housing development and the redesign of Times Square in New York.
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