Birthdays: Galileo, French King
Louis XV, Michael Praetorius, Susan B. Anthony, Charles Tiffany, John
Barrymore, Jane Seymour, Cesar Romero, Gale Sondergard, Melissa Manchester, Chris
Farley, Claire Bloom, Chris MacDonald, Marissa Berenson is 68, Matt Groening is
61
1950- Walt Disney’s Cinderella
opened in general theater release.
1954- Future President and b-movie
star Ronald Reagan tried doing a stand-up act at the Las Vegas Ramona Room with
the "Honey Brothers", a comedy troupe similar to Abbot &
Costello.
1984- Touchstone Pictures created
so the Walt Disney Company could do more adult PG movies. Their first film was
Splash, starring a tastefully topless Darryl Hannah.
1994- After months of insane
bidding, Viacom’s Sumner Redstone beat out QVC’s Barry Diller to buy Paramount
Pictures. The cost is $20 billion, although the studio’s net worth was
estimated at $8 billion. When asked, Diller replied: “What’s done is done.
Next.”
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