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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9239384" data-attributes="member: 6796661">The documentary goes into the poor management at TSR, including bad business decisions, nepotism (didn't give named examples), and Gary's and the Blume's lack of management skills and training. It discussed the wave of layoffs that happened at TSR before Gary hired Lorraine Williams as VP of operations. It talks of how she game from money (the Dille family and their ownership of the Buck Rogers IP). It covers how Gary and her butted heads almost from the beginning. She didn't feel that TSR was being managed well. "He [Gary] made a tactical error of dressing her down in front of an open board of directors meeting." Luke Gygax.It discusses how the Blumes wanted to sell their shares and how her terms were that she would buy all their shares or nothing. After that the board of directors terminated Gary Gygax as CEO and made Lorraine the CEO. It cover the legal dispute between Gary and Lorraine. Len Lakofka states that a lot of "Gary's personal allies became perona non grata to him" during this period. Then it goes to Frank Mentzer's Berkeley story:"The thing that dismayed me the most in talking to Ms Williams after she took over TSR was that she was very proud of the fact that back in the 60s at Berkeley, as head of student government, she had arranged for a concet but caust the musicians with illegal drugs and cancelled the concert and fired them. The musicians were the Jimi Hendrix experience. She was proud of this, that she had tossed them out of Berkeley and that she had kept a poster as a trophy of her victory over Jimi Hendrix." - Frank Mentzer speakingIt follows Frank's story with the following caveat:"The filmakers were unable to confirm that the Berkeley incident occurred. But other former TSR employees states that Ms Williams did keep 'trophies' of people she had fired."I felt this was probably the weakest part of the documentary. First, it feels that this was a situation of a story too good to not include. Second, they could have stopped after the first sentence of the caveat. Third, this is where they end any discussion of Lorraine Williams. I realize it is not a documentary on TSR and the focus is on Gary's life, but it seems to be a very obvious choice on how to portray Williams.</blockquote>

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