Ten years later, with payments to Walt’s WED and Retlaw soaring, and shareholders threatening a lawsuit (the board had never approved Walt’s self-serving arrangements), Roy confronted Walt during a weekend the families spent together at Walt’s Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs. The moment the subject of WED was broached, the brothers boiled over. They yelled at each other the entire weekend. “Dammit, I want to be on a par with what other people are making in this industry, Roy,” Walt yelled at one point. “If you don’t do that, I’m going to leave.”
