"They just couldn't stand him, " says Depp. "I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, 'He's ruining the movie.'"
Until recently, the trend for barista-made coffee and high-speed Wi-Fi was considered by some in the city's bookish crowd to be ruining London's centuries-old tradition of disconnected browsing.
But then the stock market crisis was widely perceived as having been caused by a technical strategy called program trading, and again there was no huge banking crisis or loss of confidence.
Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and think it only right and natural that they determine what their children do with their lives.