Salvador “Tutti” Camarata, who began his career playing trumpet for performers such as Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, and then arranging compositions for music legends such as Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, and more, was hired by Walt Disney in 1956 to form Disneyland Records and to be the music director for …
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The brainchild of creator Shonda Rhimes, the medical drama, originally called Complications, revolves around the personal and professional lives of surgical interns and supervisors at Seattle Grace Hospital. Known for integrating cutting-edge music into the show, Rhimes and her writing staff title each episode after songs from popular artists, including R.E.M. and the Beatles.
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In 1993, Disney entered the National Hockey League with their hockey team, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, named after the hockey-themed movie released the previous year. The Ducks were profitable in their early years, fueled by strong merchandise and ticket sales, but by the early 2000s started to lose money, despite an appearance in the …
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After trying some honey in the cartoon featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Tigger is disgusted with the flavor and exclaims, “That sticky, sticky stuff is only fit for heffalumps and woozles,” creatures that don’t do much “just steal honey.” Although Pooh didn’t see any actual heffalumps or woozles except in his Tigger-induced …
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Here’s a clue for what happened on this day in 2004… a movie starring Nicolas Cage was released, about a man who takes a journey in search of a great ancient treasure. National Treasure strove to ensure the highest level of believability as Benjamin Franklin Gates unravels the mystery behind our greatest national treasure by …
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“When John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and Ed Catmull talked to me about coming up here [Pixar] they said, ‘We are worried about becoming complacent. We want you to come in here and shake it up a bit.’ For them to ask me to do that when they had nothing but successes is amazing to me,” …
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On this day in 2004, the Touchstone Television show Lost first found its way to television screens and audiences first learned about how Oceanic Air flight 815 tore apart in mid air and crashed on a Pacific island— its survivors forced to find inner strength they never knew they had in order to survive. But …
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“Who’s a little like water and oil?” Well, according to the theme song, it’s the title characters in Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, an animated series that premiered on the Disney Channel on this day in 2004. The series tells the tales of one silly rabbit and a pampered pooch, who fell from a plane with …
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Back in the late 1800s, New York’s Saratoga County, known for its mineral springs and horse racing, became a choice getaway for fashionable society. Two centuries later, on May 17, 2004, it was possible to visit the posh and luxurious getaway of the 1800s once again when Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa opened at …
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Unlike other Disney park attractions, when you visit The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, “you’re traveling to another dimension…” as Rod Serling states in the opening of The Twilight Zone television show, on which the attraction is based. Although it appears that he has created an all-new introduction for the Tower of Terror, which opened …
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