Check out Animation World Network today. They just put up Andrew Farago's article on the 20th anniversary of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? Farago and Bill Desowitz interviewed James Baxter, Don Hahn, Ken Ralston, Dick Williams and me. I lent them a couple of images from the time as well. http://www.awn.com

Pete Weston put up a lot of Roger crew photos on his facebook page-

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=52058&l=d44f0&id=558932749

His recollection of names is much better than mine. I only remember people who wore white wigs and have been dead for two hundred years!


I apologize to all me Roger buddies that we were never able to get together for a good crew reunion in LA this year. I talked planning with a few key folks, and for months we threw around plans to get the MP Academy, the El Capitan, the AFI and other venues. Alas, nothing seemed to gel in time. Right now there is a twentieth commemoration in of all places, the Musee' Bande Dessinee' ( comic strip museum) in Anghouleme, France. The reception is being held in a chateaux designed by Leonardo da Vinci! Ppppuh-uleaze!!!

Actress Kathleen Turner recalled she was 8 months pregnant while doing Jessica's voice.

Oh, well, we did something on the tenth anniv. Maybe we'll save it for the 25th!
In the meantime, See you in ToonTown!

p.s.- Next year is the 20th Anniv of The Little Mermaid! Let's start planning something!
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Question: Did a Nazi ever head the United Nations?

Yesterday’s Question Answered Below: Who first said:” I’d rather have him on the inside of my tent pissing out, rather than on the outside pissing in”, and who was he talking about?
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History for 12/2/2008
Birthdays: George Seurat, Charles Ringling, Julie Harris, Gianni Verasce, Ray Walston, Alexander Haig, Monica Seles, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lucy Liu is 40, Britney Spears is 27

1494- Now that the Medici Dukes were driven out, mystical monk Savonarola proposed to the people of Florence that they create a Republic ruled by God’s Law. Savonarola ruled Florence like a Christian Ayatollah. He led big public spectacles where in large bonfires Florentines burned “vanities” like makeup, wigs, art and books and tried to live a religious life. Eventually, it all got so boring they burned Savonarola instead, and recalled the Medicis.

1804- NAPOLEON CROWNED EMPEROR OF FRANCE .The 35 year old little corporal from Corsica who spoke French with an Italian accent, had piercing gray eyes, and if he liked you, showed his affection by giving your ear a tug, crowned himself Emperor of the French. He had the Pope dragged up from Rome to Notre Dame for legitimacy, but in a moment of planned theater Napoleon took the crown and crowned himself.

1805- THE SUNRISE OF AUSTERLITZ- At a small village in what is now the Czech republic, Napoleon defeated the combined armies of the Tsar of Russia and Emperor of Austria in one spectacular battle. Tolstoy called it The Battle of the Three Emperors. As much as he was a strategist, Napoleon was a great analyst of human character. Based on his opinion of his opponent’s personalities he predicted exactly how the battle would go, two weeks before he lured them into it. The defeat of the Allies was total and climaxed by the French artillery blowing holes in a frozen lake the Russians were trying to escape over, drowning hundreds. Within days they sued for peace and the war ended. Napoleon's take on events: "Ah, que Belle Journee'." - What a nice day it's been."

1823- U.S. President James Monroe published the Monroe Doctrine, saying all the European empires then coveting lands in the Western Hemisphere should butt out or the Good Ole U.S. of A would have something to say about it! Shortly afterwards Britain extended its claim on Western Canada and seized the Falkland Islands, France entered Mexico and Russia pressed it's claim on Alaska.

1845- President James K. Polk re-affirmed the Monroe Doctrine and announced it would be the policy of his administration to get Texas and California from Mexico and Oregon from the British. He called such continental expansion America’s “Manifest Destiny.”

1854-Napoleon III was Napoleon's nephew and since 1848 legally elected President of the Second French Republic. But he decided that he wanted to be an Emperor like his uncle so he seized dictatorial power on the anniversary of Austerlitz and locked up all dissenters like Victor Hugo, Alex DeTocqueville and cartoonist Honore' Daumier (gotta watch them cartoonists...)

1859- John Brown hanged- He said nothing on the scaffold but left a prediction on a slip of paper :".. I now believe that the sins of this nation have become so great that the cannot be excised but by a great spilling of blood.."

1863- The dome of the U.S. Capitol completed as the Goddess of Freedom is hoisted up into place.

1877- Camille Saint Saens opera “Samson & Dalila” premiered in Weimar.

1896- We remember Wyatt Earp as the Marshall of Dodge City and gunfighter of the OK Corral gunfight. He was better known to his people of his own generation as the referee of the Fitzsimmons-Sharkey Heavyweight Championship prizefight. After leaving Tombstone Arizona, Wyatt Earp drifted to San Francisco where his skills as a fight referee were called upon for this last of the big bare-knuckle bouts. He enraged the public when he declared the fight for Sharkey in the 3rd round after Big-Bob Fitzsimmons couldn't stop bleeding. More people were out to kill him over this decision than were ever out to get him when marshal of Dodge City. He quickly pulled up stakes and went to the Yukon for the gold rush. He was all but forgotten until a cheap book called Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal published in 1920 made him famous.

1901- Mr. King Gillette invented the safety razor.

1942- THE FIRST CONTROLLED NUCLEAR CHAIN REACTION.-The concept of a fission reaction had been theorized by Einstein and Bohr in 1939. Under a squash court at the University of Chicago a team of physicists led by Enrico Ferme began a chain reaction in a uranium pile and stopped it again, producing a few watts of energy. To celebrate they produced a bottle of Chianti and some paper cups. No toasts were made to man's entrance into the Atomic Age. Tennis courts are still there and the Regenstein Library was built on the site where to this day the lowest basement registers off the scale on Geiger counters.

1954- Senator Joseph McCarthy’s fall from power became complete. The Senate voted to censure him for Misconduct Unbecoming a Senator. He died of alcoholism in 1957.

1993- NASA astronauts do a series of space walks from their shuttle to adjust the Hubble space telescope. The Hubble cost billions of dollars but was sent into orbit with a flaw in it’s lenses. It was nearsighted. The spacewalk in effect gave the Hubble a set of glasses to see better the furthest details of deep space.

1994- LA jury found Heidi Fleiss ‘The Hollywood Madam” guilty of running a high priced prostitution ring.
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Yesterday’s Question: Who first said:” I’d rather have that old man on the inside of my tent pissing out, rather than on the outside pissing in”, and who was he talking about?

Answer: It was President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
By the 1960’s the crusading head of the FBI had aged into a power-mad anachronistic embarrassment. For instance, Hoover ignored the Mafia, while he was convinced the entire Civil Rights Movement were paid agents of Moscow.
The Kennedys hated him and tried to replace him. but Hoover had so much dirt on their sexual exploits, they dared not. When LBJ came into office and was advised to retire the Old Man, that quote was his response. Nixon left him alone as well. J. Edgar Hoover died in office at age 77, in 1972. After him, a law was immediately passed that all future FBI directors be limited to one ten year term.

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