Birthdays: Egon Scheile, John
Roebling the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, Uta Hagen, Chick Corea, Sir
Anthony Eden, Jim Nabors, Vic Damone, David Rockefeller, Irwin Allen, Marv
Albert, Arthur Fellig-better known as Weegee, Sherry Stringfield, Former President George Herbert Walker Bush
or Poppy Bush is 90, if Anne Frank had survived she would be 85 today, Disney director Clyde
Geronimi, Richard Sherman of the composing team the Sherman Bros is 85
1962- In Modesto California, a
teenage film student named George Lucas was almost killed in a car accident.
1963- Twentieth Century Fox
released the Elizabeth Taylor -Richard Burton epic CLEOPATRA. Costing $44
million,- $400 million in modern money, four times more than the average film –
the next most expensive Ben Hur cost $15 million , it remains in comparable
dollars the costliest flop in film history. The cast was put up at the
swankiest hotels in Rome for months of shooting, and La Taylor had to have her
chili from Chasens restaurant in Beverly Hills flown in. Director Joe Mankewicz
said "Cleopatra was the toughest three pictures I ever made!" When
Liz Taylor saw the finished film, she threw up.
Fox had to cut 2,000 jobs and
almost went bankrupt. The area of LA known as Century City with its huge
shopping mall used to be Fox ‘s backlot before Cleopatra. On the plus side Andy
Warhol said Cleopatra was the most influential movie of the 1960s because
suddenly every woman had to have heavy black eyeliner, light lipstick and
Egyptian style straight bobbed hair.
1999-
Disney’s Tarzan premiered.
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