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May 30, 2003 –The Academy Awarding Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures film, Finding Nemo, voiced by Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, and Willem Dafoe, premiered on this date. Andrew Stanton pitched his idea and story to Pixar head John Lasseter in an hour-long session, using elaborate visual aids and character voices. AtContinue reading “Fish are our friends”

May 30, 1908 – Melvin Jerome Blanc, the prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of cartoon shorts for Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera during the Golden Age of American animation, was born on this date. He is often regarded as one of the most gifted and influentialContinue reading “Mel Blanc”

May 29, 1995 –Pink Floyd released their third live album, a 2-CD album, Pulse, in the U.K., on this date. Pink Floyd toured in support of their recent album, The Division Bell, for eight months between March and October 1994. The album was the live, double CD document of that tour.

May 29, 1957 –On November 3, 1954, Japan released Gojira (Godzilla), the greatest fever dream and anti nuclear proliferation film ever made. On April 26, 1956, an American version of the film, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, was released. It had 40 minutes of the original excised (mostly the content dealing with World War IIContinue reading “Try to follow along –”

May 29, 1988 –The story of Jan Scruggs‘ effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, To Heal A Nation, aired on NBC TV, on this date. Although the role is credited as “Senator Bob Mathias,” the character portrayed by Laurence Luckinbill was actually a Republican member of the US House of Representatives representing California forContinue reading “To Heal A Nation premiered”

May 29, 1913 –Imagine, if you will, you live in Paris and that after a hard day of not working and drinking heavily (it’s what most of the idle rich did in Paris at the time, in between bouts of sodomy, while they waited around for Marcel Proust to finish writing that damn book heContinue reading “It was some night at the opera”

If you didn’t get a chance to catch the sunset last night, don’t worry – Manhattanhenge happens again tonight at 8:12 pm EDT, (It might be cloudy though,) and then again on July 12 and 13.

May 28, 1982 –Roxy Music release their eighth and final album, Avalon, on this date. Avalon was Roxy Music’s most successful studio album. It stayed at number one on the UK Albums Chart for three weeks, and stayed on the chart for over a year.

May 28, 1953 –Walt Disney’s first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor, Melody, premiered on this date Originally there was going to be an entire series of Adventures in Music shorts but in fact, only one other was made: the Academy Award-winning Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom.

May 28, 1999 –The definitive Rom Com, Notting Hill, directed by Roger Michell, and starring Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville, opened in the US on this date. During the birthday dinner scene, Anna Scott is asked how much she made on her last film, andContinue reading “Notting Hill premiered”