Birthdays: Galileo, French King
Louis XV, Michel Praetorius, Susan B. Anthony, Charles Tiffany, John Barrymore,
Jane Seymour, Cesar Romero, Gale Sondergard, Melissa Manchester, Chris Farley,
Claire Bloom, Chris MacDonald, Marissa Berenson is 67, Matt Groening is 60
1947- During the anti-Communist
witchhunts, the FBI revoked the visa of famed documentary filmmaker and founder
of the National Film Board of Canada John Grierson because they thought his
politics were too lefty.
1950- Walt Disney’s Cinderella
opened in general theater release.
1984- Touchstone Pictures created
so the Walt Disney Company could do more adult PG movies. Their first film was
Splash, starring a tastefully topless Darryl Hannah.
1994- After months of insane
bidding, Viacom’s Sumner Redstone beat out QVC’s Barry Diller to buy Paramount
Pictures. The cost is $20 billion, although the studio’s net worth was estimated
at $8 billion. When asked, Diller replied: “What’s done is done. Next.”
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