Article: Highly animated: DIC Entertainment has become one of the last independent firms creating children's programming, developing cartoons for an array of broadcasters. (People).(Brief Article)(Interview)

DIC Entertainment Corp. President and Chief Executive Andy Heyward ushers a reporter into a conference room and slips a cassette into a VCR. What follows is a 10-minute cartoon prepared for the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting earlier this month starring Warren Buffett and Charles Munger (as themselves) in a parody based on the "Wayne's World" sketches on "Saturday Night Live." Buffett, a longtime acquaintance, commissioned the cartoon in which he, Munger, Bill Gates and Walter Cronkite lent their voices. Heyward's excitement about the piece is palatable -- and it helps explain his 23-year stint at DIC, despite several ownership changes and some challenging periods ...

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