Great Holiday Party at the union attended by hundreds of artists.

Turned in a new article to animation work network AWN about disasterous story pitches.It's slated to run after December 11th.

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Birthdays: Sappho, John Milton, Jean De Brunhoff, Elzie Segar the creator of Popeye, Hermoinie Gingold, Dalton Trumbo, John Cassavettes,Broderick Crawford, Dick Butkus, Kirk Douglas is 90, Red Foxx, Cesar Franck, John Malkovich is 53, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Buck Henry is 76, Judy Dench, Felicity Huffman, Star Trek’s Mr Worff- 2340 AD

1889- The Chicago Auditorium dedicated. The landmark building’s architect Louis Sullivan had hired a new assistant to help with the drawings-Frank Lloyd Wright.

1905- Richard Strauss’s opera Salome premiered in Dresden. The lead role demands an opera singer with big Wagnerian lungs but also a flat stomach to do the strip tease the Dance of the Seven Veils. When the opera debuted in New York, old millionaires like J.P. Morgan were shocked at its’explicit sexuality. They threatened to cut off funding until Salome was pulled from the schedule.


1946- Damon Runyon died ,the writer whose characters the musical "Guys and Dolls' are based. His philosophy: "All life is six to five against."

1948-Actor Ossie Davis married actress Ruby Dee.

1960- The first episode of Coronation Street premiered on British ITV.

1964-John Coltrane recorded his landmark jazz album “The Love Supreme”. Late on foggy nights Trane liked to take his sax out onto the middle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and practice by himself.

1965- Bill Melendez's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" the first half hour animated t.v. special, featuring the music of Vince Guaraldi. Peanut’s creator Charles Schulz had heard Guaraldi's jazz combo perform in San Francisco and when he picked him to do the music. He never scored a film before:" How many yards of music do you want?" Vince Guaraldi died a few years later of the various vices jazzmen were prey to but the t.v. special goes on. A Charlie Brown Christmas has run every year for 40 years.



1967- At a Doors concert lead singer Jim Morrison was sprayed with mace and arrested by Miami police for “lewd behavior” on stage, but probably more for referring to the cops in derogatory terms.

1992-Britains Prime Minister John Major announced the separation of Prince Charles and Diana of Wales.

1994- Disney Animators in California move into their new Animation building designed by Robert Stern.