Do their creators bear any responsibility?
When a debut receives more praise than its creators can bear, they're headed for a fall.
Peanut butter … well, there's always George W Bush. I'd like to think that the drop in sales is thanks to a collective realisation that, as John Humphrys suggested during an interview with Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond last week, homemade marmalade simply tastes better.
Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond is to make a cameo appearance in the film that will bring his beloved character to the big screen for the first time.
The creator of We Bare Bears, Daniel Chong, knew my comic and he reached out asking if I'd like to take a shot at pitching a few ideas for the show.
Then, the censors gave the film a PG certificate for "sexual references", thereby upsetting the bear's creator, Michael Bond.
So did the actor and singer Davy Jones and Jan Berenstain, the co-creator of "The Berenstain Bears".
So the bear's creator, Michael Bond, says poor Paddington will be interrogated by police about his iffy immigration status.
Other compromisers have posited a creator who doesn't bear much resemblance to the benevolent, all-powerful God of the biblical accounts and doesn't guarantee much in the way of meaning to life.
The former Montessori teacher, who lives in Austin, Tex., has worked with Stan and Jan Berenstain, the creators of the Berenstain Bears, and has written music for software and video games, including "Freddie Fish".
