Birthdays: Ethel Kennedy, Joel Grey, Louise Lasser, Mason Reese,
Oleg Cassini, Cameron Mitchell, Bill Irwin, John
Milius, Jennifer Esposito
Happy 100 Birthday Norman McClaren April 11, 1914-1987, Famed Canadian Filmmaker, animator , Founder and First President of ASIFA.
1914- George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion premiered at the
Haymarket in London.
1933- the Bauhaus directed by Mies Van Der Rohe was closed
down by the Nazis.
1950- First day filming on the movie All About Eve. As Bette
Davis said “Fasten your seatbelts, its
going to be a bumpy night.”
1955- WABD in New York and KTLA in Los Angeles began running
pre-1948 Warner Bros cartoon shorts in a half hour format, introducing the baby
boomer generation to the world of Bugs, Daffy and Porky.
1983- At that year’s Academy Awards the winner for Best
Animated Short was Polish artist Zybigniew Rybcyzinski for his film Tango.
During the ceremony he stepped outside for a smoke. When Security guards
refused to let him re-enter he became combative, shouting the only English he
knew:”I Have Oscar!”. He wound up in jail for assault and his Oscar wound up in
the bushes.
2006- Italian police captured
the capo-de-capo of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Provenzano near the town of
Corleone, the birthplace of Mario Puzo’s fictional Godfather. Don Provenzano
had been hiding out for 43 years.
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