The Hollywood Pictures film One Good Cop first landed in theaters on this day in 1991. The film stars Michael Keaton as New York City police lieutenant Artie Lewis. The film tells the story of what happens when Artie’s longtime partner is killed in the line of duty. Artie and his wife find themselves taking …
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Although the multiple award-winning television series Dinosaurs debuted on this day, the show took place millions of years prior, 60,000,003 B.C. to be exact. Based on an idea by Jim Henson, this Disney/Henson live-action collaboration was only the second show to feature the famed puppeteer’s unique combination of Audio-Animatronics® and puppets. John Kennedy, who is …
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Greetings, earthlings… On this day in 1991, an out-of-this-world dining experience called the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant landed at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (then known as Disney-MGM Studios) at Walt Disney World. In the mysterious confines of this quirky culinary theater, Guests dine in convertible automobiles, while viewing trailers, clips, and shorts from fantastic science-fiction moments …
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A snazzy crimefighter outfit and a cool trademark saying, “I am the terror that flaps in the night” are just part of the charm of Darkwing Duck, who starred in the series of the same name that premiered on Disney Channel on this day in 1991. Darkwing Duck proved popular and later replaced Disney’s Gummi …
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Opening at Disneyland on this date 18 years ago, Disney Afternoon Avenue was a colorful street of cartoon buildings located between it’s a small world and Videopolis (now the Fantasyland Theatre), inspired by the success of the two-hour programming block Disney Afternoon, which ran from 1990–1997. Here Guests could meet TaleSpin star Baloo in his …
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The high-profile Hollywood producing team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer achieved great success with films such as Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, and Flashdance. When their five-year contract with Paramount went sour, it created quite a stir, and the duo became the most sought after producing team in Hollywood. It was announced on this …
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G’day! On this day in 1990, The Rescuers Down Under was released in theaters. This sequel to The Rescuers debuted 13 years after the original film and reunited animated film stars Bernard and Miss Bianca, along with their real-life voices, actors Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor. If you’ve noticed that the above image is not …
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G’day, mate! On this day in 1990, the animated feature The Rescuers Down Under took audiences on an adventurous journey into the Australian outback. In this sequel to 1977’s The Rescuers, Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor reprise their roles as the voices of Bernard and Miss Bianca, two mice members of the Rescue Aid Society, …
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Multi-award winning architect Robert A. M. Stern is the former dean of the Yale University School of Architecture and previously a professor of architecture and director of the Historic Preservation Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and universities and is …
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The animated series TaleSpin, which had already begun to soar into popularity on the Disney Channel, made its debut in syndication on this day in 1990 as part of the all-new The Disney Afternoon programming block. This package consisted of two hours of existing shows from Disney Television Animation. The newest of the shows, TaleSpin, …
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