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 74, Leonard Maltin is 66, Alyssia Sanchez-Vaccario, Ray Liotta is 62,
Katie Holmes is 38, Brad Pitt is 53, Steven Spielberg is 70
1919- in France Composer Cole
Porter married divorcee Linda Thomas. They stayed together all their long lives
even though she knew that he was gay.
1939-Max Fleischer's animated
classic “Gulliver's Travels”.
1956- TV Game show To Tell the
Truth made its debut. Bud Collier hosting, and panelists like Kitty Carlisle,
Bennett Cerf, Orson Bean and Dorothy Killgallen as panelists.
1960- A young, eccentric man named
Jerry Garcia was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army. He had done things
like drive a tank into a field then walk away. He had been AWOL 8 times in one
year. After leaving the army, Jerry Garcia became a hippie musician in San
Francisco. In 1966 formed the rock band the Grateful Dead.
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.
Fifty Years Ago 1966- Chuck Jone's
'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'
premiered.
1972- President Nixon announced
that despite all the war protests he would continue to carpet-bomb North
Vietnam and Laos until he got a negotiated settlement.
1975- Rod Stewart announced he was
leaving the band Faces, for a solo singing career.
1978- SAG strikes Hollywood again
for residuals. (again...)
1983- Jean Shephard’s The Christmas Story opened to tepid
acclaim and weak box office, but soon became an annual holiday classic. On
Christmas Day many TV stations play it 24 hours straight.
1984- Christopher Guest married
Jamie Lee Curtis at Rob Reiner’s house .
1984- Pixars first short The Adventures of Andre and Wally-B
released in theaters. 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 once a drunken Farley turned
to him and asked:" 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".
2015-
Star Wars VII, The Force Awakens opened. J.J. Abrams reboot of the old Star Wars
franchise became a box office phenomenon. It earned $100 million in a weekend,
and ended way over a billion and a half dollars
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