Birthdays: Honore' Daumier, Nancy Wilson, Ansel Adams,
Sidney Poitier is 88, Cindy Crawford, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robert Altman, Roger
Penske. Phil Esposito, Jennifer O’Neill, Ivanna Trump, Mike Leigh, Lili Taylor
Happy 90th birthday Feb 20, 1925- Willis O’Brien’s
silent movie the Lost World premiered. Based on Conan-Doyles 1912 novel. The
stop motion animation of dinosaurs and exploding volcanoes issued in a new era
of special effects films. O'Brien later did King Kong and trained kids like Ray
Harryhausen.
1936- The film “Follow the Fleet” premiered, with Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
1947- In a lecture to the London Mathematical Society, Computer
pioneer Alan Turing said the best way to test the intelligence of a computer
would be to teach it to play chess. Earliest reference to interactive gaming.
1980- Bon Scott, vocalist for the band AC/DC, was found dead
in a friend’s automobile choked in his own vomit.
2006- The animated film Wallace
& Gromet: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, won the British Academy Award (BAFTA)
for the best British Film of the year. It beat out the Constant Gardner, and
Pride & Prejudice.
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