Birthdays:
Jack Kerouac, Billy "Buckwheat "Thomas, Darryl Strawberry, Edward
Albee, Andrew Young, Joan Kennedy, Eugene Ormandy, Gordon McCrae, Liza Minelli
is 68, Courtenay Vance, James Taylor, Frank Welker, Al Jareau, Maurice Evans,
Barbara Feldon- agent 99 in Get Smart, DeWitt Bodeen- writer of the 1942 film
Cat People. Aaron Eckart is 46
1932-Disney
short "Mickey’s Revue" featuring Dippy Dog, now turned into a new
character named "the Goof" or Goofy.
1945-THE
WAR OF HOLLYWOOD BEGAN-Throughout the 1930’s and 40’s several national unions
battled studios and each other to represent Hollywood film workers. The
Teamsters, the FWPC, the Brotherhood of Electricians.
By 1945
only two remained, the IATSE and the CSU.(International Alliance of Theater and
Screen Engineers and the Conference of Studio Unions) IATSE had a reputation of
gangsterism and making cozy deals with the studio heads. The CSU, a much more
militant group with past ties to communist organizations, was headed by a
charismatic scenery painter named Herb Sorrell who had helped win the Disney
strike for the cartoonists in 1941. Sorrel called several citywide strikes that paralyzed Hollywood in 1945,
46,and 47. President Richard Walsh of IATSE fought them and rioting in front of
the studios was commonplace.
1951-
Former Disney assistant animator Hank Ketcham was trying his hand as a print
cartoonist. He had some success selling gags to the New Yorker Magazine. His
baby son Dennis was a precocious infant. One day after the child smeared the contents of
his diaper around the house, his mother exclaimed to Hank-“ Your son is a
Menace!” That gave Ketcham an idea. Today the first Dennis the Menace comic
strip was published.
1969-
Mrs. Robinson –a song written by two young folk singers named Simon &
Garfunkel, won a Grammy award.
1969-
Paul and Linda McCartney married.
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