The DeMille-Lasky Barn,Courtesy of Marc Wanamaker and Hollywood Heritage


Once each year, at the DeMille Barn in Hollywood, the Animation Guild, ASIFA Hollywood and Women In Animation present An Afternoon of Remembrance “a non-denominational celebration of departed friends from our animation community”.

This year it takes place this Saturday, March 1, at 1pm. Tributes will be paid to:

Rene Alcazar …………….ink & paint artist
Roger Armstrong…………comic book artist of Disney’s Scamp and Looney Tunes comics.
Dick Arnall………………UK producer of animate! Program for Channel 4
Warren Batchelder………animator
Max Becraft……………..animator
Pat Boyd………………..Canadian animator
Sheila Brown…………....background artist
Erica Cassetti…………….digital modeller
Harvey Cohen……………composer
Jennifer Davidson……….VP programming Cartoon Network and Adult Swim
Alberto DeMello………....character designer
Greg Drolette…………….background artist
Walker Edmiston…………voice actor
Ray Erlenborn……………sound effects artist was child actor in Chaplin’s City Lights
Natatcha Estebanez……….producer
Becky Fallberg……………ink & paint supervisor
Mary Lou Ferguson………ink & paint artist
Ben Ferrer………………..designer
Lu Guarnier...animator, Guild President.
Ed Hanson………………...assistant animator, prod manager
Terry Harrison---------------animator
Florence Heintz--------------ink & paint artist
Dave Hilberman-------------animator, producer, activist, co-founder of UPA.
Dick Hoffman…………….animator
Steve Krantz………………producer of Fritz the Cat.
Ryan Larkin……………….Canadian animator, filmmaker
Carol Lundberg……………layout artist
John Marshall………………animator, producer
Roberta Gruetert Marshall….ink & paint supervisor
Tom O’Loughlin………….background artist
Henry Ortiz……………….xerox processor
Brant Parker……………….cartoonist co creator of The Wizard of Id
Nicole Pascal------------------assistant animator
Charles Nelson-Reilly--------voice actor
Will Schaefer………………composer of music for The Flintstones and the Yogi Bear.
Charlene Singleton…………checker
Ken Southworth……………animator,director
Art Stevens…………………animator, director
James Street………………..voice actor of DIC Strawberry Shortcake.
Iwao Takamoto…………….animator, designer of Scooby Doo and Penelope Pittstop
Aleksandr Tatarskiy………..Russian producer, co-founder of Moscow Pilot Studio
Caren (Scarpulla) Terry…....Color stylist
Jim Thurman……………….writer, voice actor writer of Roger Ramjet series.
Elbert Tuganov…………….The Father of Estonian Animation
Al Wilson………………….layout and story artist
Jack Zander…………………animator, director, producer first president of the Anim Guild.


The Afternoon of Remembrance is free of charge and is open to all. No RSVPs necessary. You don't have to be related to anyone to attend. It is about the animation industry remembering our friends and colleagues. Food and refreshments, and good stories. In previous years Chuck Jones spoke of is friend Friz Freleng, Bob Kurtz recalled Marc Davis. We learned a lot about many artists alternate pursuits like one who invented the game Chutes and Ladders, one was a drummer of the rock band the Turtles, one spent a summer with Picasso and wrote a book- My Summer with Picasso, another had a world class collection of pith helmets! Laughter, tears, memories, but never dull.

1 pm * Memoriams, 2 pm
Hollywood Heritage Museum (Lasky-DeMille Barn)
2100 N. Highland (across from Hollywood Bowl), Hollywood, California.

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Question: Which is the only city in Africa to be named after an American President?
Hint: There is no such place as Bushville.

Yesterday’s question answered below.
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History for 2/27/2008
Birthdays: Roman Emperor Constantine the Great–280AD, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Steinbeck, Ralph Nader is 74, Joanne Woodward, Marion Anderson, Chelsea Clinton, Franchot Tone, William Demarest, James Worthy, Mirella Freni, Judge Hugo Black, David Sarnoff the founder of NBC network, Adam Baldwin, Arial Sharon, Elizabeth Taylor is 76

1776- The American Congressmen in Philadelphia received the news from London that the British Crown had resolved that there be no more negotiations about American grievances. That all people living in British America who did not unconditionally surrender and renew their allegiance to their King would be branded a traitor. That meant hanging. This must have weighed heavy on the American minds when they voted on the Declaration of Independence.

1814- Beethoven’s 8th Symphony premiered.

1827- The first Mardi Gras celebration was held in New Orleans. Mardi Gras parties were first held by the French colonists of Mobile Alabama in 1709. From there the custom spread to the Big Easy.

1859-CONGRESSMAN COMMITS MURDER- While New York Representative Dan Sickles was being a Washington wheeler-dealer his lonely wife began an affair with the dashing son of Francis Scott Key, Phillip Barton Key. When Sickles found out he was horrified, even though he had cheated on her numerous times. This is the Victorian Era after all. Phillip Barton Key just then had the misfortune to be spotted passing by their house on Lafayette Square. Sickles in a rage grabbed a pistol and rushed after him, confronting him across the street from the White House: "Key, you Blackguard! You have dishonored my marriage bed and must die!" All Key could do was throw his opera glasses at him. Congressman Sickles then shot him dead. Incredibly, Sickles was acquitted of murder by the first use of the ‘plea of temporary insanity’. His attorney was Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's secretary of war. Sickles and Stanton both were close friends of President Buchanan.
Dan Sickles went on to finish his term, become a Union General and fought at Gettysburg, won the Medal of Honor, lived to 93 and helped build New York’s Central Park. He even reconciled with Mrs. Sickles.
Dan Sickles
1860- Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at the Cooper Union Institute in New York declaring himself a potential candidate for President: " A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand." The elite New York audience at first snickered at the Illinois man’s high nasal Western twang, but they soon were inspired by his words. He received a standing ovation when he finished. That previous day he first posed for photographer Matthew Brady who made a famous photo that was copied and recopied around the country. Lincoln later said:" Brady and the Cooper Institute made me president."

1900- In Britain several Independent Labor Parties, Trade union and Fabian Societies form the British Labor Party under Ramsey MacDonald. After the Liberals fell apart over Irish autonomy Labor became the dominant alternative to the Tory Conservatives.

1917-THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION BEGINS- In St. Petersburg a general strike was festering since the 23rd. Today soldiers and police start to join demonstrators instead of arresting them. Shouts of :"Cossacks! Don't shoot your brothers! Enough of blood! We want Peace and Bread!" The law courts were torched, prisons opened and the protestors grab the Czar's Rolls Royce and drive it around town draped in red flags. Government officials start to flee the city. Czar Nicholas out at his military headquarters received the news that the nations capitol was no longer under his control.

1919- Gustav Holst’s orchestral piece The Planets, first premiered.

1933-The Reichstag Fire- The German parliament building was destroyed in a spectacular fire. The perpetrator was never found but a Dutch Communist named Marinus Van Der Lubbe was arrested. The incident enabled Hitler to force through legislation suspending civil liberties and trial by jury.

1956- Elvis Presley released song Heartbreak Hotel.

1958- Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohn died of old age. His ruthlessness was legend in Hollywood. He once said " I don't get ulcers, I give them!" Hedda Hopper said:' You have to wait in line to hate him." The entire Columbia staff was ordered, not asked, to attend a memorial service. Looking at the large crowd around the coffin, Red Skelton quipped: "You see, give the people what they want and they'll show up."

1977- In Toronto the Canadian Mounties bust Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg for heroin possession. The Stones agree to do two benefit concerts as punishment.

1991- President George Bush 1st declared The Gulf War successfully completed, even though Saddam Hussein remained in power.

1991- The Mitchell Brothers were tops in the pornography business, producing blockbusters like Behind the Green Door and running the O’ Farrell Theater in San Francisco. This day after a lot of drug abuse Jim Mitchell shot his brother Arnie to death with a rifle. The Mitchell Brothers case also marked the first use of 3D computer animation as an illustrative tool in a court case.

1994- Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan skips the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer so she could begin her multi-million dollar endorsements with DisneyWorld. She blows it all later when she’s caught on camera during a Disney parade saying: “This is all so corny. I can’t believe I’m doing this !”
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Yesterday’s Quiz: Famed cartoon director Fred Avery was nicknamed Tex Avery. Why?

Fred Bean Avery, was born in Taylor Texas and attended North Dallas High School. Avery claimed ancestry from Judge Roy Bean, the Hanging Judge and Law West of the Pecos in the Old West. The Beans also claimed ancestry from Daniel Boone.