Birthdays: Antonio Stradivari,
Karl Maria Von Weber,Ty Cobb, George Stevens, Ozzie Davis, Diane Disney-Miller,
Anita O’Day, Paul Klee, Betty Grable, Willy Brandt, Keith Richards is 72,
Leonard Maltin is 64, Alyssia Sanchez-Vaccario, Ray Liotta is 60, Katie Holmes
is 36, Brad Pitt is 51, Steven Spielberg is 68
1939-Max Fleischer's animated
classic “Gulliver's Travels”.
1961-" In the Jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps to-night…a winoweh,
etc. " this song by the Tokens goes to #1 in pop charts.
1964- DePatie-Freleng’s The Pink
Phink, the first Pink Panther cartoon short.
1966- Chuck Jone's 'How the Grinch
Stole Christmas' premiered.
1975- Rod Stewart announced he was
leaving the band Faces for a solo singing career.
1978- SAG strikes Hollywood again
for residuals. (again...)
1984- Christopher Guest married
Jamie Lee Curtis at Rob Reiner’s house .
1984- Pixars first short The
Adventures of Andre and Wally-B premiered at Siggraph Minneapolis. Directed by
Alvy Ray Smith and animated by John Lasseter.
1997- Saturday Night Live Comedian
Chris Farley was found dead in his Chicago apartment in the John Hancock Tower,
surrounded by empty food containers and porn magazines. The chubby 31-year-old
had been partying for 17 straight hours doing cocaine, heroin, vodka and
crystal-meth. His last words were to an exhausted prostitute:" Please
don’t leave me.". Farley idolized the late John Belushi, who had also died
of drugs and hard living at age 31. One writer recalled Farley drunk turned to
him and asked innocently:" Do you think Belushi is in heaven?"
1998- Dreamworks feature cartoon
the “Prince of Egypt”, or, as it was known in Hollywood," The Zion
King".
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