Birthdays: St. Joan of Arc, Khalil Gibran, Mountain man
Jedediah Smith, Tom Mix, Alexander Scriabin, Gustav Dore', Loretta Young, Earl
Skruggs. Carl Sandburg, Danny Thomas, Nancy Lopez, John DeLorean, Alan Watts,
John Singleton, Rowan Atkinson is 63, Anthony Minghella
1849- the first cartoon cover of Punch Magazine.
1945- First Pepe Le Pew cartoon, "Odorable Kitty".
When the Warners producer who replaced Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, heard
the plans to do a short about a skunk he thundered: "Absolutely Not!
Nobody will like a cartoon skunk!" Chuck Jones recalled: "As soon as
he said no, I knew we just had to do it." Selzer's final opinion:"
Nobody'll laugh at that sh*t!" Pepe went on to become one of Warners most
beloved characters.
1949- Composer Leonard Bernstein noted in his diary
that “JR (Jerome Robbins) called today with a novel idea- a modern version of
Romeo and Juliet set in the slums.” At first the musical was going to be
called East Side Story, then GangWay, finally West Side Story.
1956- Prince Rainier of Monaco announced his engagement to
movie star Grace Kelly.
1962- Bob Clampett's Beany and Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea
Serpent. This was the animated version of his popular puppet show.“So Long Kids, Wind Up Your Lids, We’ll look
for You Real Soooooon.”
1975-“ Ease on Down
the Road.-“ The musical The Wiz premiered on Broadway.
1993- Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev, the most famous male
dancer since Nijinsky, died of HIV/AIDS.
1995- In another great step for low journalism, CBS anchor
Connie Chung gets Kathleen Gingrich, the mother of Republican Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich, to call First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton a “bitch”. In an
earlier time such gutter utterances would have been politely edited, but this
was given national prominence.
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