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NEW: Toy Story Almost Died. A Work-From-Home Mom Saved It

Film critic Richard Crouse joins for two conversations covering the week's biggest entertainment stories and a pair of cocktails built for a superhero movie night.

A Single Line of Code Nearly Killed Pixar

Toy Story 5 just posted the second biggest animation opening of all time, but Richard Crouse traces the franchise back to a near-catastrophe: in 1998, one misfired Unix command deleted 90% of Toy Story 2 in seconds. The only surviving copy lived on a home workstation belonging to a supervising technical director who had just had a newborn. Crouse also gets into why the fifth film actually…

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