Saturday, August 20, 2022

Tom Sito's Animation Almanac for Aug 20, 2022


Birthdays: President Benjamin Harrison, Sukenoba Nishikawa, Bernardo O’Higgins, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, H.P. Lovecraft, Art Tatum, Issac Hayes, Connie Chung, Jacqueline Susanne, Rajiv Ghandi, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Joan Allen is 66, Fred Durst, Alan Reed -the original voice of Fred Flintstone, Slobodan Milosovic’, Amy Adams is 48


1882 -Peter Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" premiered in Moscow. 


1972- Top Hollywood directors Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich and William Friedkin announced a partnership in a new production company called "The Director's Company". Youngsters Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were also signatories. The partnership lasted two years then collapsed.



1982- Ralph Bakshi's film Hey Good Lookin'.


1989- George Adamson, who with his wife Joy were the naturalists who inspired the book Born Free, was murdered by Somali poachers with machetes in Kampi Ya Simba, game preserve. Joy Adamson had been murdered in 1980. 


1994- Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg resigned from the Walt Disney Company.




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