QUIZ:
What do Charlton Heston, Miles Davis, Enrico Caruso and Gary Cooper have in common with Disney animator Eric Goldberg?
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I have not heard about the memorial plans for Joe Barbera yet. The Animation Guild with ASIFA/Hollywood hosts a group memorial for everyone who passed away this year. The Afternoon of Remembrance this year will be on Saturday afternoon February 3rd. It is a non-religious event, free to all. Check the ASIFA website for details.

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Birthdays: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Branch Rickey,film director George Roy Hill, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Jenny Aguitter,spoon bending psychic Uri Geller, Irene Dunne, Cecil Cooper, Albert Dekker, Harvey Firestone, John Spencer, animator Amby Paliwoda

1892- According to Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days this was the day Phileas Fogg completed his trip.

1920- English song & dance man Leslie Townes Hope became an American citizen and changed his name to Bob Hope.

1937- Nazi Josef Goebbels noted in his diary that this day he sent his boss Adolph Hitler a Christmas present of a dozen Mickey Mouse Cartoons from America. Officially der Fuehrer called Mickey ‘vermin’ but privately he enjoyed his animated antics.


1950- Harvey premiered starring James Stewart and a 6 foot invisible rabbit.

1952- Bridgette Bardot married director Roger Vadim.

1955- Sir Lawrence Olivier’s film version of Richard III premiered.

1962- The Osmond Brothers premiered on the Andy Williams Show.

1970- ELVIS MEETS NIXON or "The President Meets the King." Citizen Presley volunteers his services in the war on drugs and gave Nixon a gold plated 44 cal. pistol. The President thanked him with a White House security officer's badge for his collection of police badges....... you see why fiction pales next to this stuff.... A recent biography of Presley described the dozen or so patent medicines he was high on, while he met Nixon.


1971- Twentieth Century Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck blames his own son CEO Richard Zanuck for Fox's monetary problems and fires him. This sets off a power struggle among the board of directors. When Zanuck's estranged wife Libby throws her support against the mogul, Zanuck is overthrown and fired from his own company. He was the last of the original Hollywood moguls.
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QUIZ:
What does Charlton Heston, Miles Davis, Enrico Caruso and Gary Cooper have in common with Disney animator Eric Goldberg? They all could draw pretty well. Gary Cooper's first ambition was to be a cartoonist for the Helena Montana Times. Charlton Heston studied at the Art Students League in NY and paid by doing nude modeling.