Birthdays: Saint Augustine 354 AD,
King Edward III of England, Robert Louis Stephenson, Edwin Booth, Oskar Werner,
Jean Seberg, Whoopi Goldberg- real name Karen Johnson is 59, Erte', Jack Elam,
Judge Louis Brandeis (the first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice), Alexander
Scourby, Hermoine Badderly, Eugene Ionesco, Garry Marshall is 80, Mel
Stottlemyre, Joe Mantegna is 67, Jimmy Kimmel is 47, Gerald Butler is 45, Will
Ryan- the modern voice of Disney’s Eeyore, and Pegleg Pete.
1842- Lewis Carroll noted in his
diary today:" Began writing the fairy tale of Alice. Hope to be done by
Christmas.."
1940- Walt Disney's 'Fantasia' opened. as Walt put it,
"this'll make Beethoven!"
Frank Lloyd Wright's opinion was
'I love the visuals, but why did you use all that old music?"
1953- An Indiana Judge ordered his
local school district to remove any school books with references to the
character Robin Hood. All the "take from the rich and give to the
poor" it was obvious to the judge that the medieval rogue of Sherwood Forest
was a Communist.
1971- ABC TV. movie "the
Duel" premiered. It starred Dennis Weaver as a hapless motorist on a
lonely freeway menaced by an unseen truck driver. The movie was directed by a
young protégé of Lew Wasserman, named Steven Spielberg.
1971- Walt Disney’s The Aristocats
opened.
1978- Mickey Mouse got his star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1986- Directors John Huston and
Woody Allen denounced the fad promoted by Ted Turner of computer colorizing
classic Black & White films like the Maltese Falcon. Supposedly one of the
last things Orson Welles said on his deathbed was "Keep Ted Turner and his
crayons away from my movies!"
1991-
Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast opened, the first animated film
ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
2001-
President Bush issued an order that all people apprehended as terrorists would
be tried by secret military commissions that dispense with our traditional
American rights that we fought for in the Revolution. But it didn’t go as far
as to call them prisoners of war, because then they could also ignore the
Geneva Conventions.
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