THIS autumn the struggle for big-screen supremacy takes on
evolutionary overtones. The warring parties on both sides are
computer-generated ants, the principal characters in DreamWorks'
“Antz” and in a joint venture between Disney and Pixar, “It's a
Bug's Life”. But the real antagonists are, on one side, Jeffrey
Katzenberg, the animation supremo at DreamWorks (and business
partner of Steven Spielberg, Hollywood's dominant male); and on
the other, Steve Jobs, creator of the Apple computer and boss of
Pixar, a computer-animation house reaching for studio status. Mr
Katzenberg rushed to finish “Antz” first, and managed to get it
into the cinemas more than a month before the bugs were
released. Fair enough: first come, first served. What is not
fair, says Mr Jobs, is that he has been plagiarised. He says he
pitched his idea to Disney at a time when Mr Katzenberg was
working there: “Jeffrey stole my idea.”  Mr Katzenberg and Mr
Jobs have argumentative histories. But even the easiest-going
people in computers and f