2 Castles, 2 Send out 2011 & Ring in 2012...12 Days of Christmas

lilpixiebabe101 said:
Fair Warning Tammie! You asked for it!

Genie and Aladdin fun tidbits!

Genie: Oi! Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck.

Genie: Never fails. You get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp.

Aladdin: Provisos? You mean limitations? On wishes? Some all-powerful Genie. Can't even bring people back from the dead. I don't know, Abu. He probably can't get us out of this cave. Looks like we'll have to find a way out of here.
Genie: Excuse me? Are you lookin' at me? Did you rub my lamp? Did you wake me up? Did you bring me here? And all of a sudden you're walking out on me? I don't think so, not right now. You're getting your wishes, so sit down!

Genie: Three, no substitutions, exchanges or refunds.

When Aladdin is transformed into Prince Ali, his reflection in the mirror shows the wrong arm held up.
When reflected in the steam, the flower in Jasmine's hair is shown on the wrong side.
When Jasmine is climbing the palace wall to leave her trouser leg is shown, but in a close up shot her leg is bare.
The script on the scrolls appears to be in Arabic and should be read from right to left, but Jafar and the Sultan's eyes move from left to right when reading it.

Robin Williams was voted "most funny but least likely to succeed" during high school.

He worked on the streets as a mime in New York City while he was attending school
there.

The actor struggled with a cocaine and alcohol addiction for years.

He was first married to Valerie Velardi who appeared in the movie Popeye with him.

He has three kids from two marriages: Zachary, Zelda, and Cody. And yes, his daughter Zelda was in fact named after the video game character Zelda.

Acting Facts

Robin Williams decided he wanted to be an actor after seeing the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

He trained to be an actor at New York's Juilliard School. Christopher Reeves was his roommate at the Juilliard School.

Notable roles: "Mork" in the TV series Mork & Minday; "Popeye" in his debut film Popeye; "Adrian" in the movie Good Morning Vietnam; "John Keating" in the drama Dead Poets Society; "Parry" in The Fisher King; "Mrs. Doubtfire" in the comedy Mrs. Doubtfire; "Arman Goldman" in remake of The Birdcage; and "Sean" in the Oscar winning Good Will Hunting.

The first time he played his alien character Mork was for a guest spot on Happy Days. In fact, his show Mork & Mindy was a spin-off from his work on Happy Days.

He has won a People's Choice Award for favorite funny male star two times.

Fun Robin William Quotes

On being hairy: "A lot of people go 'don't wear fur'. . . I am fur!" Robin Williams joked about his body hair on the Conan O'Brien talk show.

On San Francisco: "I grew up in San Francisco. Saw a lot of cowboys, just no horses." From an interview with Conan O'Brien.

On the Kid's Choice Awards show: "It's the Oscars for the hearing-impaired." The actor said this during an interview on the Ellen Degeneres Show.

On Katie Holmes silent child birth: "I hope she was allowed to make some noise like 'ouch'." He said this also during the Ellen Degeneres Show.

Robin married Susan Schneider in Napa Valley in October 22, 2011.
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Robin has won a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording for Reality, What a Concept (1979), Best Comedy Recording for Robin Williams: A Night at the Met (1988), Best Recording for Children for Pecos Bill (1989), and for Best Comedy Recording for Good Morning, Vietnam (1989). [edit]

Robin has been awarded with CableACE Best Entertainment Host Awards for Comic Relief V, which was shared with Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg (1992) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1993).
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In 1989, Robin was awarded with the American Comedy Award for Funniest Stand-Up (Male). [edit]
Robin won both the (1994) MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance and (1993) a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture for his work in Mrs. Doubtfire. [edit]
Robin was awarded with both the People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Movie Actor and the NATO/ShoWest Male Star of the Year Award in 1994. [edit]
Robin won an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in Aladdin, as well as a Saturn Award for the Best Supporting Performance in Aladdin. He received both in 1993. [edit]
Robin has performed in many of the Los Angeles comedy clubs. These comedy clubs include The Comedy Store, Improvisation, and the Ice House [edit]
Robin has performed in many of San Francisco's nightclubs. These clubs include Holy City Zoo, Intersection, the Great American Music Hall and The Boardinghouse. [edit]
At the Juilliard School in New York, New York, Robin majored in drama. He also studied for three years for a full scholarship. [edit]
Robin majored in acting at the College of Marin at Kentfield, California. [edit]
Robin majored in political science at the Claremont Men's College in Claremont, California. [edit]
Robin belongs to the Creative Artists Agency. [edit]
Robin has blue eyes. [edit]

Robin has been nominated for seven Emmys. In 1979, he was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Mork & Mindy. In 1987, he won Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin. In 1994, he was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Homicide: Life On The Street. In 1996, he was nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Comic Relief 7. In 2003, he was nominated for both Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for Robin Williams: Live On Broadway. In 2008, he was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
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In the June 2008 TV Land Awards, Robin presented Jonathan Winters, who appeared with in in Mork and Mindy, with the Pioneer Award.
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Robin owns a home and vineyard in Northern California's St. Helena district. He lives close to Joe Montana and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Robin was considered for the role of Bobby Wheeler on the TV show Taxi. The role eventually went to Jeff Conaway.
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Robin was offered the role of Frank Ginsberg in Little Miss Sunshine. The role was written for Bill Murray, but after he turned it down the studio wanted Robin. However, the role ended up going to Steve Carell.
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Robin's comedic idols are Jonathan Winters and Richard Pryor.
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Robin won the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 2004 Golden Globe awards. He dedicated his award to Christopher Reeve.
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Robin was ranked number 7 on Star TV's Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990's. [edit]
Robin wrote the foreword for the book The Far Side Gallery 4. [edit]
Robin William played Popeye in the 1980 movie "Popeye". He did not voice Popeye since it was a live action movie [edit]

Robin was named "Funniest Male Star" at the 2007 People's Choice Awards.
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Robin executive produced Jakob The Liar and Comic Relief. He also produced Mrs. Doubtfire.
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Robin directed several episodes of Mork And Mindy and the 1981 Comic Relief TV special.
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Robin was going to play Drew Barrymore's father in Home Fries but had to pull out days before his scenes were supposed to be shot.
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Robin has the same birthday as Josh Hartnett and Justin Bartha.
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Robin opened the 1976 San Francisco Comedy Competition against Dana Carvey, Harry Anderson, and A. Whitney Brown.
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Early in Robin's career he told reporters he was born in Scotland. Robin later said he was "under the influence". [edit]
Robin was ranked number 63 on Empire magazines list of the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. [edit]

The reason Robin got the role of Mork from Ork is because Garry Marshall thought Robin acted alien during his audition.
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Robin was one of the finalists for the role Joe Miller in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia. However the role went to Denzel Washington.
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Robin made 20 million dollars for Bicentennial Man. [edit]
In 1996 two of Robin's movies reached the 100 million dollar mark in the same week. They were The Birdcage and Jumanji. [edit]

Robin graduated from Redwood High School. Other famous graduates include Gabrielle Carteris, Erin Grey, and Jason Branson.
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While working on Mork And Mindy Robin adlibbed so much and so well that the producers stopped trying to make him stick to the script.
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Robin helped close friend, Christopher Reeve pay his medical bills in the final years of his life.
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Robin is a huge Star Trek fan.
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Robin was named the 50th Greatest Movie Star Of All Time by Entertainment Weekly. [edit]
Robin goes to public paintball courses. [edit]
Robin was obese as a child. Because of this nobody wanted to play with him so he started talking to himself in different voices. [edit]

Robin co-owns a resturant in San Francisco called Rubicon. The other co-owners are Robert De Niro and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Robin moved to San Francisco when he was 16. [edit]
To get into character for Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin rode the bus dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire. [edit]
Robin named his daughter Zelda because his oldest son Zachary was a devoted fan of the Legend Of Zelda video game series. [edit]
Robin was ranked number 13 on Comedy Central's list of 100 greatest stand-ups. [edit]
Robin's most famous stage performance was as Estragon in Waiting For Godot. [edit]
One of Robin's most famous routines was his successful one-man show and DVD, Robin Williams Live On Broadway. [edit]
Robin has had two HBO stand up specials. They were An Evening With Robin Williams and Robin Williams: Live At The Met. [edit]
Robin's first imitation was of his grandmother's southern accent. [edit]
Robin was a quiet child. He didn't break out of his shell until he got involved with his high school drama department. [edit]
Robin won a lawsuit against Michael Clayton, an ex-cast member in the Imperial Palace Legends in Concert show and his manager, Michael Pool for misrepresenting Clayton as the real Robin Williams to a newspaper reporter and a Missouri Fire Department. Clayton received an injunction stopping him from ever performing as Robin Williams. [edit]

Robin sang a version of Come Together with Bobby McFerrin on the Beatles tribute album, In My Life.
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Robin voiced the Timekeeper, a time traveling robot who goes in the future in the former Walt Disney World attraction. [edit]
Robin's friend, Whoopi Goldberg encouraged him to make an appearance in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode a Matter Of Time. However Robin dropped out last minute due to hectic scheduling conflicts. [edit]
Robin went to visit Christopher Reeve in the hospital after he fell off a horse and became paralyzed. He tried to cheer him up by showing up dressed as a clown doctor. In an interview Reeve said Robin was the first thing to make him laugh after the incident. [edit]
While attending Juilliard, Robin was roommates with Christopher Reeve. Robin and Reeve were friends for the remainder of Reeve's life. [edit]
Robin is called "the poster child for ADD". [edit]
Robin has released 5 comedy albums. [edit]
Robin was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Actor" for his role In Dead Poet's Society. He also won an Academy Award for "Best Supporting Actor" in Good Will Hunting. [edit]
Robin was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Actor In A Leading Role" for Good Morning, Vietnam. [edit]
In high school Robin was "Voted Most Likely Not To Succeed". [edit]
Robin was a prime candidate to play the Riddler in the third Batmen film until Tim Burton cancelled the film. [edit]
Robin is friends with Steve Martin. When they aren't busy they get together and watch DVDs of Doctor Who. [edit]
Robin is a big fan of the popular anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion. Actually the toy used in One Hour Photo belonged to him. [edit]
Robin is friends with film director, Chris Columbus. [edit]
Robin donated blood several times after 9/11. [edit]
Robin is fluent in French. [edit]
Robin voiced the Genie in Aladdin 1 and 3. It was reveled on the DVD that most of his dialog was improvised. [edit]
Robin shortly dated porn star Christy Canyon. [edit]
Robin had an addiction to cocaine. He was a close friend of John Belushi. He said the death of his friend and birth of his son were serious wake up calls. [edit]
Robin had a drinking problem during the 1970s and 1980s. He stayed sober for 20 years. However he checked back into rehab on August 9th 2006. [edit]
Robin is a democrat. [edit]
Robin performed his comedy routine for the U.S. troops in Iraq several times and once for the troops in Afghanistan. [edit]
In his final year of Cornell, he was one of two students selected (Christopher Reeve was the other) to study at Juilliard under the renowned John Houseman. Houseman told him he was wasting his talent at Juilliard and should go out into the world and do stand-up. [edit]
Robin won the Grammy Award for "Best Spoken Comedy Album" in 2003 for Live 2002. [edit]
Robin attended Claremont Men's College. While he was there he played soccer. [edit]
Robin was voted funniest man alive by Entertainment Weekly. [edit]
Robin currently lives with his family in San Francisco's Seacliff neighborhood. [edit]
Robin is typically clean-shaven in his comic roles and bearded in his serious ones.
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In Robin's comedy act he uses a wild improvised stream-of-consciousness comedy dialogue where he will do cultural references, impersonations and one liners with rapid switching. [edit]
Robin spends much of his time working with charities. Robin and his wife created the Windfall Foundation, an organization that raises money for different charities. [edit]
Robin loves everything Monty Python. [edit]
Robin enjoys cycling and owns dozens of bicycles. He attends the Tour De France often and is friends with Lance Armstrong, who he sometimes trains with. [edit]
Robin is a rugby union fan. He is also a close friend of Jonah Lomu. [edit]
Robin briefly studied political science before he went to Juilliard.
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Oh my with answers like these I'm never catching up!
 
Tuesday's Trivia
In honor of Walt Disney's birthday coming up...tell me about the man behind the movies!
 

momabaarjo said:
Tuesday's Trivia
In honor of Walt Disney's birthday coming up...tell me about the man behind the movies!
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Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon,[2] and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.[3]

Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won twenty-two Academy Awards from a total of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year,[4] giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history.[citation needed] Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
After his rejection by the army, Walt and a friend decided to join the Red Cross.[18] Soon after joining he was sent to France for a year, where he drove an ambulance, but only after the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.[19]
Hoping to find work outside the Chicago O-Zell factory, [20] in 1919 Walt moved back to Kansas City to begin his artistic career.[21] After considering whether to become an actor or a newspaper artist, he decided on a career as a newspaper artist, drawing political caricatures or comic strips. But when nobody wanted to hire him as either an artist or even as an ambulance driver, his brother Roy, then working in a local bank, got Walt a temporary job through a bank colleague at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio[21] where he created advertisements for newspapers, magazines, and movie theaters.[22] At Pesmen-Rubin he met cartoonist Ubbe Iwerks[23] and when their time at the studio expired, they decided to start their own commercial company together.[24]
In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a short-lived company called, "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists". However, following a rough start, Disney left temporarily to earn money at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, and was soon joined by Iwerks who was not able to run their business alone.[25] While working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animations, Disney became interested in animation, and decided to become an animator.[26] The owner of the Ad Company, A.V. Cauger, allowed him to borrow a camera from work to experiment with at home. After reading the Edwin G. Lutz book Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development, Disney considered cel animation to be much more promising than the cutout animation he was doing for Cauger. Walt eventually decided to open his own animation business,[27] and recruited a fellow co-worker at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Fred Harman, as his first employee.[27] Walt and Harman then secured a deal with local theater owner Frank L. Newman, arguably the most popular "showman" in the Kansas City area at the time,[28] to screen their cartoons at his local theater, which they titled Laugh-O-Grams.[28]


In 1966, Disney was scheduled to undergo surgery to repair an old neck injury[84] caused by many years of playing polo at the Riviera Club in Hollywood.[85] On November 2, during pre-operative X-rays, doctors at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, across the street from the Disney Studio, discovered a tumor in his left lung.[86] Five days later a biopsy showed the tumor to be malignant and to have spread throughout the entire left lung.[86] After removal of the lung, doctors informed Disney that his life expectancy was six months to two years.[86] After several chemotherapy sessions, Disney and his wife spent a short amount of time in Palm Springs, California.[84] On November 30, Disney collapsed at his home. He was revived by fire department personnel and rushed to St. Joseph's where on December 15, 1966, at 9:30 a.m., ten days after his 65th birthday, Disney died of acute circulatory collapse, caused by lung cancer.[84] The last thing he reportedly wrote before his death was the name of actor Kurt Russell, the significance of which remains a mystery, even to Russell.[87]
Disney was cremated on December 17, 1966, and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Roy O. Disney continued out with the Florida project, insisting that the name be changed to Walt Disney World in honor of his brother.
The final productions in which Disney played an active role were the animated feature The Jungle Book and the animated short Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, as well as the live-action musical feature The Happiest Millionaire, all released in 1967.

Walt Disney was the inaugural recipient of a star on the Anaheim walk of stars awarded in recognition of his significant contribution to the city of Anaheim and specifically Disneyland, which is now the Disneyland Resort. The star is located at the pedestrian entrance to the Disneyland Resort on Harbor Boulevard. Disney has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and the other for his television work.
Walt Disney received the Congressional Gold Medal on May 24, 1968 (P.L. 90-316, 82 Stat. 130–131) and the Légion d'Honneur awarded by France in 1935.[101] In 1935, Walt received a special medal from the League of Nations for creation of Mickey Mouse, held to be Mickey Mouse award.[102] He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964.[103] On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
A minor planet, 4017 Disneya, discovered in 1980 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina, is named after him.[104]
The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, opened in 2003, was named in his honor.
 
momabaarjo said:
Tuesday's Trivia
In honor of Walt Disney's birthday coming up...tell me about the man behind the movies!
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• Walt Disney is credited for his creation of Walt Disney World by having his named placed on a window above the Ice Cream shop at the Magic Kingdom. This window was placed there so he would always have the latest "scoop" on the Disney Company. (get it?)
• On a train from New York to California, Walt was thinking of a replacement for Oswald Rabbit during the train ride & recalled a mouse he tamed at the Lauge-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City.
The memory inspired the creation of a mouse he named Mortimer.
Lillian liked the mouse but thought the name Mortimer sounded unrealistic.
She suggested a name that sounded more dashing: Mickey Mouse.
When Walt heard of the name, he loved it.
• Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
• Walt was the first to create true nature films. They were titled True Life Adventures the first one, "Seal Island" started out slow, but eventually won an oscar and became famous, kicking off the rest of the series.
• Walt had 3 older brothers, Herbert, Raymond, Roy, and 1 younger sister named Ruth.
• When Walt was 16, his family moved to Chicago. Here, he attended McKinley High School where he was the art editor of the school newspaper.
• When Walt was 14 years old, he attended the Kansas City Art Institute on Saturday mornings. This is where he learned a lot of the basic drawing ideas.
• While Disney was looking for land for Disney World, one place he looked was New Jersey. Of course, he didn’t find land here, but he did see an old, still-working carousel. He eventually bought it and is the same carousel is in the Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Florida.
• At a time, Donald Duck was banned from a Scandinavian country because he never wore pants.
• Whoever does not believe that Disney was frozen, his ashes are supposedly scattered in Forest Lawn Cemetery of Glendale, California, near his studio.
• Many have wondered about the symbol on Walt Disney's tie shown during the Rocket Rods queue narration. It also appears on the bronze statue of Disney in the center of Disneyland. It looks like an Asian language character, but I recently found out that it is actually a compound of the letters S T R, which apparently stands for Disney's "Smoke Tree Ranch."
• As I heard from a Cast Member, Goofy was Walt's favorite character.
• How far apart are the trash cans? Walt Disney ate a hot dog in Disneyland and counted how many steps it took to finish it. It took him about 25 steps, which is roughly the spacing used in every Disney park today.
• Mounted on the roof of the administration building at Avenger Field in 1943 was a 10-foot-high sign with a giant portrait of Fifinella, the Walt Disney gremlin who served as mascot to the Women's Air force Service Pilots.
• In 1945 Walt Disney designed the insignia for Fighter Squadron VF-84 while the squad was getting ready for the attack on Japan.
• According to "All About Community Colleges", Walt Disney attended Metropolitan Junior College, MO.
• "Disney" is actually a changed version of Walt's family's original name. The original name was D'Isigny. It was around the year 1044. Originally from France, Isigny-Sur-Mer was the area that Walt's relatives came from.
• Walt died in St. Joseph's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA.
• Walt's death at 9:35 A.M., was attributed to acute circulatory collapse.
• Walt admitted to being scared to death when he had to face the camera to introduce episodes of the Disneyland television series.
• In 1923, in California, Walt and Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studio. At Roy's insistence, the company soon became the Walt Disney Studio, since he felt that Walt's name should be emphasized. This is officially recognized as the starting date of The Walt Disney Company.
• Sometimes Walt used the names Retlaw Elias Yensid or Retlaw Yensid, his name spelled backwards.
• Walt Disney is the only person to ever win an oscar and a nobel prize.
• Walt Disney increased the sales of color TV sets when he moved from ABC to NBC for his series “Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color,” which was the very reason NBC lured him.
• Walt Disney's mother died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective heating system in a brand new house that Walt and his brother Roy had bought for his parents in Los Angeles.
• Walt Disney received honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale on consecutive days in 1938.
• Walt Disney was responsible for the first nature documentary and was one of the prime movers of the conservation movement—the first being Bambi and the next being the studio's True-Life Adventures.
• From the early 1940s to 1955 when Walt opened Disneyland, he was in dire economic straits, always forced to tighten the studio's belt. This is why the original park was small compared to today's standards.
• He won more Oscars than anyone else -- 32.
• He often ate lunch at his desk -- his favorite meal was chili and beans, which he ate with tomato juice and soda crackers.
• He grew his famous mustache at age 25.
• Walt Disney only attended one year of high school.
• One of Walt's first jobs was a paperboy. He hated it because he was forced to do it.
• In Disney's Fantasia, Walt named the Sorcerer Yensid, which is Walt's last name spelled backwards.
• When Walt Disney World opened in 1971, about 5 years after Walt's death, its original name was just Disney World. Roy Disney, Walt's brother, gave the opening speech for the park. In it is where he dedicated the park's name to his brother, naming the park Walt Disney World, in his brother's honor.
• Main Street, USA is based on one of Walt's hometowns, Marceline, Missouri.
• One of Walt's first businesses was Laugh-O-Grams, which he started with Ub Iwerks. They were originally going to call the company Disney & Iwerks, but they thought it sounded too much like an optometrist’s' office.
• When Walt was purchasing land in Florida for Walt Disney World, he used a fake name as to not be charged extra since he was very rich at the time. The name he used was M. T. Lott. This name is on a window of Main Street, USA in the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World, Florida.
• Walt Disney loved trains so much that when he moved to California and had enough room in his backyard, he got a life sized train in his backyard that he was able to ride. The tracks' length was about 1 mile. The train was named after his wife, The Lillian.
• Walter Elias Disney originally got his name from his father and a priest from his hometown. The priest and Elias Disney made a deal when the both of their wives were pregnant. If they were both, they would name their kids after each other. The Priest's name was Walter, and Elias is his father's name, thus Walter Elias Disney.
• Walt Disney came up with the name of EPCOT, in Walt Disney World, Florida. EPCOT stands for Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. Walt was very excited of this park because of its limitless potential. Walt died before its completion, making the park different from the original plans. To see Walt's original plans for EPCOT, go to the Magic Kingdom in Florida and go on the ride: Blueline Transport. In it, you see a miniature city behind a wall of glass. This is the original model of EPCOT that was taken from Walt's EPCOT planning room.
• In the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World, located in Florida, Walt Disney's name is written on a window above the ice cream parlor on Main Street, located inside the park itself. When the Magic Kingdom was being built, he stayed here usually, thus the name on the window.
• When Walt was building Disneyland in California, it was tough for him to go back and forth from his house at times. So, he and his family sometimes stayed in an apartment above the firehouse in Disneyland. When Walt died, it has been untouched since.
• Walt: You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
• Walt: You reach a point where you don't work for money.
• Walt: You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
• Walt: You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
• Walt: Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
• Walt: When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
• Walt: When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.
• Walt: When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
• Walt: We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
• Walt: We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
• Walt: We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
• Walt: We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
• Walt: We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
• Walt: We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
• Walt: There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
• Walt: There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
• Walt: There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
• Walt: The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
• Walt: The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
• Walt: People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
• Walt: People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
• Walt: Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
• Walt: Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
• Walt: Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
• Walt: Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
• Walt: Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
• Walt is the son of Elias Disney and Flora Disney.
• Walt is the brother of Herbert Disney, Roy O. Disney, Ruth Disney.
• Walt is the nephew of Robert Disney.
• Walt is the grandfather of Chris Miller, Joanna Miller, Tamara Scheer, Jennifer Miller-Goff, Walter Elias Disney Miller, Ronald Miller, and Victoria Brown.
• Walt's daughter Sharon Disney was adopted.
• Walt: Laughter is America's most important export.
• Walt: It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing... and adding to.
• Walt: It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
• Walt: It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
• Walt: If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
• Walt: I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
• Walt: I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
• Walt: I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
• Walt: I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
• Walt: I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
• Walt: I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
• Walt: I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
• Walt: I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
• Walt: I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
• Walt: I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
• Walt: I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.
• Walt: I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
• Walt: I believe in being an innovator.
• Walt: I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
• Walt: I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
• Walt: Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland...the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
• Walt: Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
• Walt: Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
• Walt: Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
• Walt: Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
• Walt: Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
• Walt: Born of necessity, the little fellow (Mickey Mouse) literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
• Walt: Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
• Walt: Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
• Walt: Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
• Walt: All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
• Walt: All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
• Walt: All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
• Walt: Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.
• Walt was awarded an honorary Oscar "For the creation of Mickey Mouse" by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at the fifth Awards ceremony held on November 10, 1932 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was only the second honorary Oscar yet awarded by the Academy. The recipient of the first honorary Oscar, Charles Chaplin, was supposed to present the award to Disney, but he stayed home the night of the awards.
• Walt was pictured on a 6¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued in his honor, 11 September 1968.
• Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, an Army draft notice, addressed to "Mr. Donald Duck", was delivered to the Disney studios.
• Walt reports surfaced that shortly after his death, Disney Company executive board members were shown a short film that Disney had made before his death, where he addressed the board members by name, telling each of them what was expected of them. The film ended with Disney saying, "I'll be seeing you."
• Walt's death was not publicly announced until after his funeral, which was attended only by close family members.
• Walt worked as a paperboy as a youth for the Kansas City Star, which the Walt Disney Company now owns.
• Walt was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2000.
• Walt became interested in personalizing animals' characters after carelessly killing a small owl as a young boy. He felt deeply remorseful and guilty and vowed never again to kill a living creature.
• Walt holds the record of winning the most Academy Awards (32).
• As a teenager, Walt Disney was a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth organization affiliated with Free Masons.
• Walt is the father-in-law of Ron Miller (married to his daughter Diane Disney)
• Walt was born at 12:30am-CST.
• Walt's spouse, Lillian, died on December 16, 1997.
• Walt first voiced both Mickey and Minnie but had to stop because he got too busy to voice the characters.
• Walt: A man should never neglect his family for business.
 
I came here quick and I'm beat!!! I am going to post some photos though--- that darn laundry! I had to go wash blankets and such!

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By the way--- what are you watching for his birthday? I am not sure what to watch! I do want to celebrate it though and celebrate it nicely!
 
lilpixiebabe101 said:
Haha Tammie's going to have a field day trying to sort it all out lol! :surfweb:
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Just something to do in the middle of the night...except on my list is to do a deep clean of the living room tonight and tomorrow so I can drag out my nativity tomorrow night for the start of advent while the kids are asleep and the tree Thursday night while they are asleep...all in master plan of this trip reveal...insert evil laugh!!!!

I have a great final question for tomorrow...WARNING/ALERT...I will post it early so you have all day to answer it and impress me! :rotfl2:

I have been working on my PTR gift to you all...and I sure hope you like it as much as I do! I am not the greatest at arts & crafts but I am liking how this is turning out. :love: Just about finished and waiting for the last part to arrive so I can mail them out this weekend.
 
momabaarjo said:
Just something to do in the middle of the night...except on my list is to do a deep clean of the living room tonight and tomorrow so I can drag out my nativity tomorrow night for the start of advent while the kids are asleep and the tree Thursday night while they are asleep...all in master plan of this trip reveal...insert evil laugh!!!!

I have a great final question for tomorrow...WARNING/ALERT...I will post it early so you have all day to answer it and impress me! :rotfl2:

I have been working on my PTR gift to you all...and I sure hope you like it as much as I do! I am not the greatest at arts & crafts but I am liking how this is turning out. :love: Just about finished and waiting for the last part to arrive so I can mail them out this weekend.
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Just so that I can get ready and refresh my page every second... my early and your early are an hour difference... so who's early? Maybe just call my house while you are typing so that I have time to log into the computer! :rotfl2:I'm kidding!!! I'm kidding! I am just excited because out of all the games this is the one that I can do best at!
 
momabaarjo said:
Monday's Trivia:
In Alice in Wonderland, what is the name of Alice's kitten?

and since I left you hanging all day...how about another question...

What actor was the first to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for providing a voice in a Disney Full Length Feature Animation? Name the actor, the movie, and the voice he provided to which character.
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hunterfaimly said:
Alice's pet cat is named Dinah.
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hunterfaimly said:
Robin Williams won a Golden Globe for voicing Genie in Aladin.
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Dinah is Alice's cat and bosom companion in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Alice talks to Dinah, and mentions her frequently to Wonderland residents. When Alice describes Dinah's hunting skills to the animals in the Caucus Race, they become very uncomfortable.

Alice: [to her cat] That's it, Dinah. If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?
Dinah: Meow.
Alice: In my world, you wouldn't say "meow." You'd say, "Yes, Miss Alice."
Dinah: Meow.
Alice: Oh, but you would. You'd be just like people, Dinah. And all the other animals too.

Also, Dinah didn't go down the rabbit hole with Alice, she just waved goodbye to her.
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swwake said:
This is Robin Williams for the role of Genie in Aladdin.
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The movie was released in 1992.

Here's the section of the movie where Aladdin first meets the Genie

Who could grant the wish of a beggar trying to marry the sultan's daughter? The same guy who could grant Disney's wish to gross over $500 million at the office: A wisecracking genie played by Robin Williams, who also won an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance. Believed by many to be the funniest animated feature of all time, Aladdin was one of the first animated features that used a celebrity of this caliber for both voice-over and marketing of the film. Perhaps Disney was on to something?

Did you know that Robin Williams and Disney had a bitter falling out over Aladdin?

In gratitude for his success with the Disney/Touchstone film Good Morning, Vietnam, Robin Williams voiced the Genie in the Disney animated film Aladdin for SAG scale pay ($75,000), on condition that his name or image not be used for marketing, and his (supporting) character not take more than 25% of space on advertising artwork, since Toys was scheduled for release one month after Aladdin's debut. The studio went back on the deal on both counts, especially in poster art by having the Genie in 25% of the image, but having other major and supporting characters portrayed considerably smaller. Disney's Hyperion book, Aladdin: The Making Of An Animated Film, listed both of Williams' characters "The Peddler" and "The Genie" ahead of main characters, but was forced to refer to him only as "the actor signed to play the Genie".
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I have to say, it was Robin Williams that made this movie such a success. They should have treated him better, I think they did make up in the end...

lilpixiebabe101 said:
Fair Warning Tammie! You asked for it!

Genie and Aladdin fun tidbits!

Genie: Oi! Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck.

Genie: Never fails. You get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp.

Aladdin: Provisos? You mean limitations? On wishes? Some all-powerful Genie. Can't even bring people back from the dead. I don't know, Abu. He probably can't get us out of this cave. Looks like we'll have to find a way out of here.
Genie: Excuse me? Are you lookin' at me? Did you rub my lamp? Did you wake me up? Did you bring me here? And all of a sudden you're walking out on me? I don't think so, not right now. You're getting your wishes, so sit down!

Sounds just like how I am going to be on the trip...dang it you are going to love it and I am going to make you....:rotfl:

Genie: Three, no substitutions, exchanges or refunds.

When Aladdin is transformed into Prince Ali, his reflection in the mirror shows the wrong arm held up.
When reflected in the steam, the flower in Jasmine's hair is shown on the wrong side.
When Jasmine is climbing the palace wall to leave her trouser leg is shown, but in a close up shot her leg is bare.
The script on the scrolls appears to be in Arabic and should be read from right to left, but Jafar and the Sultan's eyes move from left to right when reading it. :rotfl2:

Robin Williams was voted "most funny but least likely to succeed" during high school. :rotfl:

He worked on the streets as a mime in New York City while he was attending school there.

The actor struggled with a cocaine and alcohol addiction for years. :guilty:

He was first married to Valerie Velardi who appeared in the movie Popeye with him.

He has three kids from two marriages: Zachary, Zelda, and Cody. And yes, his daughter Zelda was in fact named after the video game character Zelda.

Acting Facts

Robin Williams decided he wanted to be an actor after seeing the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

He trained to be an actor at New York's Juilliard School. Christopher Reeves was his roommate at the Juilliard School.

Notable roles: "Mork" in the TV series Mork & Minday; Set in Boulder, Colorado...and you are way to young to know this show... "Popeye" in his debut film Popeye; "Adrian" in the movie Good Morning Vietnam; "John Keating" in the drama Dead Poets Society; "Parry" in The Fisher King; "Mrs. Doubtfire" in the comedy Mrs. Doubtfire; "Arman Goldman" in remake of The Birdcage; and "Sean" in the Oscar winning Good Will Hunting.

The first time he played his alien character Mork was for a guest spot on Happy Days. In fact, his show Mork & Mindy was a spin-off from his work on Happy Days. :goodvibes:goodvibesRemember it well...NaNo NaNo

He has won a People's Choice Award for favorite funny male star two times.

Fun Robin William Quotes

On being hairy: "A lot of people go 'don't wear fur'. . . I am fur!" Robin Williams joked about his body hair on the Conan O'Brien talk show.

On San Francisco: "I grew up in San Francisco. Saw a lot of cowboys, just no horses." From an interview with Conan O'Brien.

On the Kid's Choice Awards show: "It's the Oscars for the hearing-impaired." The actor said this during an interview on the Ellen Degeneres Show.

On Katie Holmes silent child birth: "I hope she was allowed to make some noise like 'ouch'." He said this also during the Ellen Degeneres Show.

Robin married Susan Schneider in Napa Valley in October 22, 2011.
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Robin has won a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording for Reality, What a Concept (1979), Best Comedy Recording for Robin Williams: A Night at the Met (1988), Best Recording for Children for Pecos Bill (1989), and for Best Comedy Recording for Good Morning, Vietnam (1989). [edit]

Robin has been awarded with CableACE Best Entertainment Host Awards for Comic Relief V, which was shared with Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg (1992) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1993).
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In 1989, Robin was awarded with the American Comedy Award for Funniest Stand-Up (Male). [edit]
Robin won both the (1994) MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance and (1993) a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture for his work in Mrs. Doubtfire. [edit]
Robin was awarded with both the People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Movie Actor and the NATO/ShoWest Male Star of the Year Award in 1994. [edit]
Robin won an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in Aladdin, as well as a Saturn Award for the Best Supporting Performance in Aladdin. He received both in 1993. [edit]
Robin has performed in many of the Los Angeles comedy clubs. These comedy clubs include The Comedy Store, Improvisation, and the Ice House [edit]
Robin has performed in many of San Francisco's nightclubs. These clubs include Holy City Zoo, Intersection, the Great American Music Hall and The Boardinghouse. [edit]
At the Juilliard School in New York, New York, Robin majored in drama. He also studied for three years for a full scholarship. [edit]
Robin majored in acting at the College of Marin at Kentfield, California. [edit]
Robin majored in political science at the Claremont Men's College in Claremont, California. [edit]
Robin belongs to the Creative Artists Agency. [edit]
Robin has blue eyes. [edit]

Robin has been nominated for seven Emmys. In 1979, he was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Mork & Mindy. In 1987, he won Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin. In 1994, he was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Homicide: Life On The Street. In 1996, he was nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Comic Relief 7. In 2003, he was nominated for both Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for Robin Williams: Live On Broadway. In 2008, he was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
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In the June 2008 TV Land Awards, Robin presented Jonathan Winters, who appeared with in in Mork and Mindy, with the Pioneer Award.
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Robin owns a home and vineyard in Northern California's St. Helena district. He lives close to Joe Montana and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Robin was considered for the role of Bobby Wheeler on the TV show Taxi. The role eventually went to Jeff Conaway.
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Robin was offered the role of Frank Ginsberg in Little Miss Sunshine. The role was written for Bill Murray, but after he turned it down the studio wanted Robin. However, the role ended up going to Steve Carell.
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Robin's comedic idols are Jonathan Winters and Richard Pryor.
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Robin won the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 2004 Golden Globe awards. He dedicated his award to Christopher Reeve.
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Robin was ranked number 7 on Star TV's Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990's. [edit]
Robin wrote the foreword for the book The Far Side Gallery 4. [edit]
Robin William played Popeye in the 1980 movie "Popeye". He did not voice Popeye since it was a live action movie [edit]

Robin was named "Funniest Male Star" at the 2007 People's Choice Awards.
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Robin executive produced Jakob The Liar and Comic Relief. He also produced Mrs. Doubtfire.
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Robin directed several episodes of Mork And Mindy and the 1981 Comic Relief TV special.
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Robin was going to play Drew Barrymore's father in Home Fries but had to pull out days before his scenes were supposed to be shot.
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Robin has the same birthday as Josh Hartnett and Justin Bartha.
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Robin opened the 1976 San Francisco Comedy Competition against Dana Carvey, Harry Anderson, and A. Whitney Brown.
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Early in Robin's career he told reporters he was born in Scotland. Robin later said he was "under the influence". [edit]
Robin was ranked number 63 on Empire magazines list of the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. [edit]

The reason Robin got the role of Mork from Ork is because Garry Marshall thought Robin acted alien during his audition.
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Robin was one of the finalists for the role Joe Miller in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia. However the role went to Denzel Washington.
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Robin made 20 million dollars for Bicentennial Man. [edit]
In 1996 two of Robin's movies reached the 100 million dollar mark in the same week. They were The Birdcage and Jumanji. [edit]

Robin graduated from Redwood High School. Other famous graduates include Gabrielle Carteris, Erin Grey, and Jason Branson.
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While working on Mork And Mindy Robin adlibbed so much and so well that the producers stopped trying to make him stick to the script. Could you even imagine working with him? I think I would break a few ribs laughing!!!
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Robin helped close friend, Christopher Reeve pay his medical bills in the final years of his life. WOW...[edit]

Robin is a huge Star Trek fan.
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Robin was named the 50th Greatest Movie Star Of All Time by Entertainment Weekly. [edit]
Robin goes to public paintball courses. [edit]
Robin was obese as a child. Because of this nobody wanted to play with him so he started talking to himself in different voices. [edit]

Robin co-owns a resturant in San Francisco called Rubicon. The other co-owners are Robert De Niro and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Robin moved to San Francisco when he was 16. [edit]
To get into character for Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin rode the bus dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire. [edit]
Robin named his daughter Zelda because his oldest son Zachary was a devoted fan of the Legend Of Zelda video game series. [edit]
Robin was ranked number 13 on Comedy Central's list of 100 greatest stand-ups. [edit]
Robin's most famous stage performance was as Estragon in Waiting For Godot. [edit]
One of Robin's most famous routines was his successful one-man show and DVD, Robin Williams Live On Broadway. [edit]
Robin has had two HBO stand up specials. They were An Evening With Robin Williams and Robin Williams: Live At The Met. [edit]
Robin's first imitation was of his grandmother's southern accent. [edit]
Robin was a quiet child. He didn't break out of his shell until he got involved with his high school drama department. [edit]
Robin won a lawsuit against Michael Clayton, an ex-cast member in the Imperial Palace Legends in Concert show and his manager, Michael Pool for misrepresenting Clayton as the real Robin Williams to a newspaper reporter and a Missouri Fire Department. Clayton received an injunction stopping him from ever performing as Robin Williams. [edit]

Robin sang a version of Come Together with Bobby McFerrin on the Beatles tribute album, In My Life.
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Robin voiced the Timekeeper, a time traveling robot who goes in the future in the former Walt Disney World attraction. [edit]
Robin's friend, Whoopi Goldberg encouraged him to make an appearance in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode a Matter Of Time. However Robin dropped out last minute due to hectic scheduling conflicts. [edit]
Robin went to visit Christopher Reeve in the hospital after he fell off a horse and became paralyzed. He tried to cheer him up by showing up dressed as a clown doctor. In an interview Reeve said Robin was the first thing to make him laugh after the incident. [edit]
While attending Juilliard, Robin was roommates with Christopher Reeve. Robin and Reeve were friends for the remainder of Reeve's life. [edit]
Robin is called "the poster child for ADD". [edit]:lmao::lmao:
Robin has released 5 comedy albums. [edit]
Robin was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Actor" for his role In Dead Poet's Society. He also won an Academy Award for "Best Supporting Actor" in Good Will Hunting. [edit]
Robin was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Actor In A Leading Role" for Good Morning, Vietnam. [edit]
In high school Robin was "Voted Most Likely Not To Succeed". [edit]
Robin was a prime candidate to play the Riddler in the third Batmen film until Tim Burton cancelled the film. [edit]
Robin is friends with Steve Martin. When they aren't busy they get together and watch DVDs of Doctor Who. [edit]
Robin is a big fan of the popular anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion. Actually the toy used in One Hour Photo belonged to him. [edit]
Robin is friends with film director, Chris Columbus. [edit]
Robin donated blood several times after 9/11. [edit]
Robin is fluent in French. [edit]
Robin voiced the Genie in Aladdin 1 and 3. It was reveled on the DVD that most of his dialog was improvised. [edit]
Robin shortly dated porn star Christy Canyon. [edit] :scared1:
Robin had an addiction to cocaine. He was a close friend of John Belushi. He said the death of his friend and birth of his son were serious wake up calls. [edit]
Robin had a drinking problem during the 1970s and 1980s. He stayed sober for 20 years. However he checked back into rehab on August 9th 2006. [edit]
Robin is a democrat. [edit] :scared1:
Robin performed his comedy routine for the U.S. troops in Iraq several times and once for the troops in Afghanistan. [edit]
In his final year of Cornell, he was one of two students selected (Christopher Reeve was the other) to study at Juilliard under the renowned John Houseman. Houseman told him he was wasting his talent at Juilliard and should go out into the world and do stand-up. [edit]
Robin won the Grammy Award for "Best Spoken Comedy Album" in 2003 for Live 2002. [edit]
Robin attended Claremont Men's College. While he was there he played soccer. [edit]
Robin was voted funniest man alive by Entertainment Weekly. [edit]
Robin currently lives with his family in San Francisco's Seacliff neighborhood. [edit]
Robin is typically clean-shaven in his comic roles and bearded in his serious ones.
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In Robin's comedy act he uses a wild improvised stream-of-consciousness comedy dialogue where he will do cultural references, impersonations and one liners with rapid switching. [edit]
Robin spends much of his time working with charities. Robin and his wife created the Windfall Foundation, an organization that raises money for different charities. [edit]
Robin loves everything Monty Python. [edit]
Robin enjoys cycling and owns dozens of bicycles. He attends the Tour De France often and is friends with Lance Armstrong, who he sometimes trains with. [edit]
Robin is a rugby union fan. He is also a close friend of Jonah Lomu. [edit]
Robin briefly studied political science before he went to Juilliard.
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20 points...okay so I am being random with this much trivia....:confused3
 
momabaarjo said:
Tuesday's Trivia
In honor of Walt Disney's birthday coming up...tell me about the man behind the movies!
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Dream426 said:
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon,[2] and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.[3]

Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won twenty-two Academy Awards from a total of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year,[4] giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history.[citation needed] Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
After his rejection by the army, Walt and a friend decided to join the Red Cross.[18] Soon after joining he was sent to France for a year, where he drove an ambulance, but only after the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.[19]
Hoping to find work outside the Chicago O-Zell factory, [20] in 1919 Walt moved back to Kansas City to begin his artistic career.[21] After considering whether to become an actor or a newspaper artist, he decided on a career as a newspaper artist, drawing political caricatures or comic strips. But when nobody wanted to hire him as either an artist or even as an ambulance driver, his brother Roy, then working in a local bank, got Walt a temporary job through a bank colleague at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio[21] where he created advertisements for newspapers, magazines, and movie theaters.[22] At Pesmen-Rubin he met cartoonist Ubbe Iwerks[23] and when their time at the studio expired, they decided to start their own commercial company together.[24]
In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a short-lived company called, "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists". However, following a rough start, Disney left temporarily to earn money at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, and was soon joined by Iwerks who was not able to run their business alone.[25] While working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animations, Disney became interested in animation, and decided to become an animator.[26] The owner of the Ad Company, A.V. Cauger, allowed him to borrow a camera from work to experiment with at home. After reading the Edwin G. Lutz book Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development, Disney considered cel animation to be much more promising than the cutout animation he was doing for Cauger. Walt eventually decided to open his own animation business,[27] and recruited a fellow co-worker at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Fred Harman, as his first employee.[27] Walt and Harman then secured a deal with local theater owner Frank L. Newman, arguably the most popular "showman" in the Kansas City area at the time,[28] to screen their cartoons at his local theater, which they titled Laugh-O-Grams.[28]


In 1966, Disney was scheduled to undergo surgery to repair an old neck injury[84] caused by many years of playing polo at the Riviera Club in Hollywood.[85] On November 2, during pre-operative X-rays, doctors at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, across the street from the Disney Studio, discovered a tumor in his left lung.[86] Five days later a biopsy showed the tumor to be malignant and to have spread throughout the entire left lung. :sad2::sad2:[86] After removal of the lung, doctors informed Disney that his life expectancy was six months to two years.[86] After several chemotherapy sessions, Disney and his wife spent a short amount of time in Palm Springs, California.[84] On November 30, Disney collapsed at his home. He was revived by fire department personnel and rushed to St. Joseph's where on December 15, 1966, at 9:30 a.m., ten days after his 65th birthday, Disney died of acute circulatory collapse, caused by lung cancer.[84] The last thing he reportedly wrote before his death was the name of actor Kurt Russell, the significance of which remains a mystery, even to Russell.[87] I so had a crush on the young Kurt Russell!
Disney was cremated on December 17, 1966, and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Roy O. Disney continued out with the Florida project, insisting that the name be changed to Walt Disney World in honor of his brother. :thumbsup2
The final productions in which Disney played an active role were the animated feature The Jungle Book and the animated short Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, as well as the live-action musical feature The Happiest Millionaire, all released in 1967.

Walt Disney was the inaugural recipient of a star on the Anaheim walk of stars awarded in recognition of his significant contribution to the city of Anaheim and specifically Disneyland, which is now the Disneyland Resort. The star is located at the pedestrian entrance to the Disneyland Resort on Harbor Boulevard. Disney has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and the other for his television work.
Walt Disney received the Congressional Gold Medal on May 24, 1968 (P.L. 90-316, 82 Stat. 130–131) and the Légion d'Honneur awarded by France in 1935.[101] In 1935, Walt received a special medal from the League of Nations for creation of Mickey Mouse, held to be Mickey Mouse award.[102] He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964.[103] On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
A minor planet, 4017 Disneya, discovered in 1980 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina, is named after him.[104]
The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, opened in 2003, was named in his honor.
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swwake said:
• Walt Disney is credited for his creation of Walt Disney World by having his named placed on a window above the Ice Cream shop at the Magic Kingdom. This window was placed there so he would always have the latest "scoop" on the Disney Company. (get it?) :rotfl2:
• On a train from New York to California, Walt was thinking of a replacement for Oswald Rabbit during the train ride & recalled a mouse he tamed at the Lauge-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City.
The memory inspired the creation of a mouse he named Mortimer.
Lillian liked the mouse but thought the name Mortimer sounded unrealistic.
She suggested a name that sounded more dashing: Mickey Mouse.
When Walt heard of the name, he loved it.
• Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
• Walt was the first to create true nature films. They were titled True Life Adventures the first one, "Seal Island" started out slow, but eventually won an oscar and became famous, kicking off the rest of the series.
• Walt had 3 older brothers, Herbert, Raymond, Roy, and 1 younger sister named Ruth.
• When Walt was 16, his family moved to Chicago. Here, he attended McKinley High School where he was the art editor of the school newspaper.
• When Walt was 14 years old, he attended the Kansas City Art Institute on Saturday mornings. This is where he learned a lot of the basic drawing ideas.
• While Disney was looking for land for Disney World, one place he looked was New Jersey. Of course, he didn’t find land here, but he did see an old, still-working carousel. He eventually bought it and is the same carousel is in the Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Florida.
• At a time, Donald Duck was banned from a Scandinavian country because he never wore pants. :scared1:
• Whoever does not believe that Disney was frozen, his ashes are supposedly scattered in Forest Lawn Cemetery of Glendale, California, near his studio.
• Many have wondered about the symbol on Walt Disney's tie shown during the Rocket Rods queue narration. It also appears on the bronze statue of Disney in the center of Disneyland. It looks like an Asian language character, but I recently found out that it is actually a compound of the letters S T R, which apparently stands for Disney's "Smoke Tree Ranch."
• As I heard from a Cast Member, Goofy was Walt's favorite character.
• How far apart are the trash cans? Walt Disney ate a hot dog in Disneyland and counted how many steps it took to finish it. It took him about 25 steps, which is roughly the spacing used in every Disney park today.
• Mounted on the roof of the administration building at Avenger Field in 1943 was a 10-foot-high sign with a giant portrait of Fifinella, the Walt Disney gremlin who served as mascot to the Women's Air force Service Pilots.
• In 1945 Walt Disney designed the insignia for Fighter Squadron VF-84 while the squad was getting ready for the attack on Japan.
• According to "All About Community Colleges", Walt Disney attended Metropolitan Junior College, MO.
• "Disney" is actually a changed version of Walt's family's original name. The original name was D'Isigny. It was around the year 1044. Originally from France, Isigny-Sur-Mer was the area that Walt's relatives came from.
• Walt died in St. Joseph's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA.
• Walt's death at 9:35 A.M., was attributed to acute circulatory collapse.
• Walt admitted to being scared to death when he had to face the camera to introduce episodes of the Disneyland television series.
• In 1923, in California, Walt and Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studio. At Roy's insistence, the company soon became the Walt Disney Studio, since he felt that Walt's name should be emphasized. This is officially recognized as the starting date of The Walt Disney Company.
• Sometimes Walt used the names Retlaw Elias Yensid or Retlaw Yensid, his name spelled backwards.
• Walt Disney is the only person to ever win an oscar and a nobel prize.:)
• Walt Disney increased the sales of color TV sets when he moved from ABC to NBC for his series “Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color,” which was the very reason NBC lured him.
• Walt Disney's mother died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective heating system in a brand new house that Walt and his brother Roy had bought for his parents in Los Angeles.
• Walt Disney received honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale on consecutive days in 1938.
• Walt Disney was responsible for the first nature documentary and was one of the prime movers of the conservation movement—the first being Bambi and the next being the studio's True-Life Adventures.
• From the early 1940s to 1955 when Walt opened Disneyland, he was in dire economic straits, always forced to tighten the studio's belt. This is why the original park was small compared to today's standards.
• He won more Oscars than anyone else -- 32.
• He often ate lunch at his desk -- his favorite meal was chili and beans, which he ate with tomato juice and soda crackers. Our meal to celebrate his birthday this weekend...chili...
• He grew his famous mustache at age 25.
• Walt Disney only attended one year of high school.
• One of Walt's first jobs was a paperboy. He hated it because he was forced to do it.
• In Disney's Fantasia, Walt named the Sorcerer Yensid, which is Walt's last name spelled backwards.
• When Walt Disney World opened in 1971, about 5 years after Walt's death, its original name was just Disney World. Roy Disney, Walt's brother, gave the opening speech for the park. In it is where he dedicated the park's name to his brother, naming the park Walt Disney World, in his brother's honor.
• Main Street, USA is based on one of Walt's hometowns, Marceline, Missouri.
• One of Walt's first businesses was Laugh-O-Grams, which he started with Ub Iwerks. They were originally going to call the company Disney & Iwerks, but they thought it sounded too much like an optometrist’s' office.
• When Walt was purchasing land in Florida for Walt Disney World, he used a fake name as to not be charged extra since he was very rich at the time. The name he used was M. T. Lott. This name is on a window of Main Street, USA in the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World, Florida.
• Walt Disney loved trains so much that when he moved to California and had enough room in his backyard, he got a life sized train in his backyard that he was able to ride. The tracks' length was about 1 mile. The train was named after his wife, The Lillian.
• Walter Elias Disney originally got his name from his father and a priest from his hometown. The priest and Elias Disney made a deal when the both of their wives were pregnant. If they were both, they would name their kids after each other. The Priest's name was Walter, and Elias is his father's name, thus Walter Elias Disney.
• Walt Disney came up with the name of EPCOT, in Walt Disney World, Florida. EPCOT stands for Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. Walt was very excited of this park because of its limitless potential. Walt died before its completion, making the park different from the original plans. To see Walt's original plans for EPCOT, go to the Magic Kingdom in Florida and go on the ride: Blueline Transport. In it, you see a miniature city behind a wall of glass. This is the original model of EPCOT that was taken from Walt's EPCOT planning room.
• In the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World, located in Florida, Walt Disney's name is written on a window above the ice cream parlor on Main Street, located inside the park itself. When the Magic Kingdom was being built, he stayed here usually, thus the name on the window.
• When Walt was building Disneyland in California, it was tough for him to go back and forth from his house at times. So, he and his family sometimes stayed in an apartment above the firehouse in Disneyland. When Walt died, it has been untouched since.
• Walt: You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
• Walt: You reach a point where you don't work for money. :goodvibes
• Walt: You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
• Walt: You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
• Walt: Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
• Walt: When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
• Walt: When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.
• Walt: When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
• Walt: We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. :goodvibes
• Walt: We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
• Walt: We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
• Walt: We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:
• Walt: We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
• Walt: We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
• Walt: There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
• Walt: There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
• Walt: There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
• Walt: The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
• Walt: The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
• Walt: People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
• Walt: People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
• Walt: Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
• Walt: Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
• Walt: Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. So true
• Walt: Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
• Walt: Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
• Walt is the son of Elias Disney and Flora Disney.
• Walt is the brother of Herbert Disney, Roy O. Disney, Ruth Disney.
• Walt is the nephew of Robert Disney.
• Walt is the grandfather of Chris Miller, Joanna Miller, Tamara Scheer, Jennifer Miller-Goff, Walter Elias Disney Miller, Ronald Miller, and Victoria Brown.
• Walt's daughter Sharon Disney was adopted.
• Walt: Laughter is America's most important export.
• Walt: It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing... and adding to.
• Walt: It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
• Walt: It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
• Walt: If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
• Walt: I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
• Walt: I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
• Walt: I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
• Walt: I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
• Walt: I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
• Walt: I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
• Walt: I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. :scared1:
• Walt: I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
• Walt: I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
• Walt: I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
• Walt: I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.
• Walt: I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
• Walt: I believe in being an innovator.
• Walt: I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
• Walt: I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
• Walt: Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland...the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
• Walt: Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
• Walt: Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
• Walt: Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
• Walt: Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
• Walt: Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. :worship::worship::worship:
• Walt: Born of necessity, the little fellow (Mickey Mouse) literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
• Walt: Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
• Walt: Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
• Walt: Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
• Walt: All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
• Walt: All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. :yay:
• Walt: All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
• Walt: Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.
• Walt was awarded an honorary Oscar "For the creation of Mickey Mouse" by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at the fifth Awards ceremony held on November 10, 1932 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was only the second honorary Oscar yet awarded by the Academy. The recipient of the first honorary Oscar, Charles Chaplin, was supposed to present the award to Disney, but he stayed home the night of the awards.
• Walt was pictured on a 6¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued in his honor, 11 September 1968.
• Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, an Army draft notice, addressed to "Mr. Donald Duck", was delivered to the Disney studios.
• Walt reports surfaced that shortly after his death, Disney Company executive board members were shown a short film that Disney had made before his death, where he addressed the board members by name, telling each of them what was expected of them. The film ended with Disney saying, "I'll be seeing you."
• Walt's death was not publicly announced until after his funeral, which was attended only by close family members.
• Walt worked as a paperboy as a youth for the Kansas City Star, which the Walt Disney Company now owns.
• Walt was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2000.
• Walt became interested in personalizing animals' characters after carelessly killing a small owl as a young boy. He felt deeply remorseful and guilty and vowed never again to kill a living creature.
• Walt holds the record of winning the most Academy Awards (32).
• As a teenager, Walt Disney was a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth organization affiliated with Free Masons.
• Walt is the father-in-law of Ron Miller (married to his daughter Diane Disney)
• Walt was born at 12:30am-CST.
• Walt's spouse, Lillian, died on December 16, 1997.
• Walt first voiced both Mickey and Minnie but had to stop because he got too busy to voice the characters.
• Walt: A man should never neglect his family for business. AMEN
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So how many random points should I award? :confused3 30
 
Monknmom said:
I came here quick and I'm beat!!! I am going to post some photos though--- that darn laundry! I had to go wash blankets and such!

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By the way--- what are you watching for his birthday? I am not sure what to watch! I do want to celebrate it though and celebrate it nicely!
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We are watching the Disney Parks Series....and playing that Magic Kingdom board game I found last May?!
 
swwake said:
and for extra trivia points - Katie sang "My Reflection" (in the style of Christina Aguilera) when she was 10 years old at her voice lesson recital, with curls in her stick-straight hair and a pretty little lavender dress.
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AHHHHH...bet she was cute!

...Ab's show choir sang Colors of the Wind last Christmas! Acapelo (sp?) style....gave me chills.
 
IN CASE YOU EVEN WONDERED....THERE IS A SIZE LIMIT ON POSTS...
hence the reason why all my scoring is broken into separate posts....sheesh you had me working and reading.

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LAST TRIVIA QUESTION

Think about your favorite Disney Movie...dig up trivia about it (but no just cutting and pasting the entire page....be selective in what you post...love pictures...BUT MOST POINTS WILL BE AWARDED for telling me WHY THIS IS YOUR FAV!
 
momabaarjo said:
LAST TRIVIA QUESTION

Think about your favorite Disney Movie...dig up trivia about it (but no just cutting and pasting the entire page....be selective in what you post...love pictures...BUT MOST POINTS WILL BE AWARDED for telling me WHY THIS IS YOUR FAV!
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Mary Poppins is my favorite Disney Movie. Hard to pick one because I love others as well like the Lion King but we will stick with Mary Poppins because it is my all time favorite.

~ Disney cast Dick Van Dyke in the key supporting role of Bert, thanks to his work on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Van Dyke also played the senior Mr. Dawes in the film.

~ Van Dyke's attempt at a cockney accent is regarded as one of worst film accents in history.

~ Walt Disney first attempted to purchase the film rights to Mary Poppins from P. L. Travers as early as 1938 but was rebuffed because Travers did not believe a film version of her books would do justice to her creation.

~ Planning the film and composing the songs took about two years.

~ Travers objected to a number of elements that actually made it into the film. Rather than original songs, she wanted the soundtrack to feature known standards of the Edwardian period in which the story is set.

~ She also objected to the animated sequence. Disney overruled her, citing contract stipulations that he had final say on the finished print.

~ The satirical and mysterious aspects of the original book gave way to a cheerful and 'Disneyfied' tone. Mary Poppins' character as portrayed by Andrews in the film is somewhat less vain and more sympathetic towards the children than the rather cold and intimidating nanny of the original book.


~ Van Dyke played two roles in the film.

~ Andrews did at least three: she provided the robin's whistling harmony during "A Spoonful of Sugar", and was also one of the Pearly singers during "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

~ David Tomlinson, besides playing Mr. Banks, also provided the voice of Mary's talking umbrella as well as numerous other voice-over parts, including that of Admiral Boom's first mate.

~ Mary Martin, Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury were considered for the role of Mary Poppins. Casting directors saw Julie Andrews singing Camelot’s “What do the Simple Folk Do” on the Ed Sullivan Show and immediately knew that they had to have her for Mary Poppins. They told Walt, who flew out to New York to see Julie sing her part on Broadway, and that was that. Andrews still had to pass muster with P.L. Travers, though, but it didn’t end up being a problem – Travers adored her.


~ Julie Andrews almost didn’t take the role – she was actually holding out for the Eliza Doolittle part in My Fair Lady that eventually went to Audrey Hepburn.

~ Matthew Garber was afraid of heights, so the crew paid him an extra dime every time he had to go up on the wires for the scenes where the kids are floating in the air. But they weren’t always on wires – Disney didn’t want people to look at the scene and go, “Oh, they clearly used wires for that,” so sometimes wires were used, sometimes teeter totters were used, and sometimes they flipped the set on its side or upside down and filmed that way.

~ The queue of nannies lined up to interview for the nanny position – a bunch of them are actually men.

~ When the kids look surprised at all of the stuff Mary Poppins pulls out of her carpet bag, that was genuine shock. They couldn’t see what was being fed to the bag from under the table, so when she pulled hat stands and huge potted plants out of that regular-sized bag, the kids were completely stunned.

~ A bunch of songs were deleted from the movie. A few include “The Chimpanzoo,” which you can now hear on the 2004 special anniversary edition DVD; “Practically Perfect,” which ended up being the music for “Sister Suffragette”; “Admiral Boom” which was to be Admiral Boom’s theme song; and “Measure Up,” which Mary Poppins was going to sing while measuring the kids with her magical tape measure. One song was actually repurposed for Bedknobs and Broomsticks and was called “The Beautiful Briny” in it.

~ The “Chim-Chim Cheree” and”Step in Time” sequences: The background of the London rooftops is actually matte paintings done on glass. The “smoke” staircase was actually made out of sponge because it was assumed that if you were walking on smoke, it would have a bouncy feeling to it. The “Step in Time” dance had to be filmed twice because the film the first version was on got scratched. And I guess I’m not alone in loving the “Step in Time” scene – Walt enjoyed it so much he would come to watch the daily dance rehearsals and told the choreographers to go nuts and have fun with the steps.

~ Mistakes in movie:
1. The father tears the children's advert for a nanny up into 8 pieces, but when it comes out of the chimney it's in far more bits.

2. At the beginning when Mrs. Bank is talking to Katie Nanna you can see the clock behind her and you can clearly see that the time is 6:30 when a little later it is at 6:00.

3. The Robin that comes along in the movie is an American Robin, not a British Robin.

4. In the ceiling tea party, Mary Poppins offers Bert some sugar, and when he responds that he would not like any, his Cockney accent is gone.

5. An early scene with the constable and the children, Jane silently mouths along with one of Michael's lines.

6. When Mr. Banks returns to the bank at night to be reprimanded, look at his torn carnation when it is placed back in his lapel. In each shot, it changes in size, shape and colour at least seven times.

7. When all four actors are up on the rooftops, look closely at them when they all step onto the smoke platform that brings them down. All four actors are doubles.

8. At the bank where the elder Mr. Dawes appears from the back room, he makes it as far as the edge of the step in that shot. In the next shot, he's back by the door walking again to the edge of the step.

9. In the scene where Mary Poppins is removing the large plant from her carpet bag, Michael inspects the underside of the table, where the table leg casts a shadow across his face. When Mary crosses in front of him (still under the table) she does NOT cast a shadow, although she should.

10. There is a certain point in the song "Step In Time" (I believe it is when we see a couple of men switching their feet on the top of a chimney) where against the sky you can see where a wall and ceiling meet. This is because the scene was shot indoors.

11. When Uncle Albert, Bert, and the kids fall down from hovering on the ceiling, they're about to land on the chairs. But when the camera view changes, they land on the floor.

12. When Mary Poppins takes the children on an outing to the park, look at the front steps when the front door opens. They are not steps but flat ground painted to look like steps.

13. Some of the rockets in which the captain's assistant puts into the cannon have duct/masking tape around them. Duct/masking tape wasn't invented then.

14. In the beginning, when Mr. Banks is calling the police and talking to his wife at the same time, the phone cord changes position between shots.

15. In the tea party on the ceiling sequence, 2 shots after Uncle Albert tells his long underwear joke, Jane does a backflip in the air. If you look closely you can see the wires that she is hanging from.

16. When the kids meet Bert as a pavement artist, he draws a road with a single-arched bridge on his drawing. When they jump into the drawing, the bridge is double arched.

17. As the movie starts out, the mother is going to suffrage meetings (to fight for the right to vote), setting the film in the early to mid 1910's. When they're talking about getting a new nanny, the mother gets a modern ring binder out.

18. The "Votes for women" band over the old nanny's shoulder swaps positions when the song about suffrage is about to end.

19. During the close-up shots of the ceiling tea party, Bert and the laughing man have shadows on the wall directly behind them. However in most of the wider shots, (which have obviously been shot against a blue or green screen) the shadows are now gone.

20. At the end of the film, Mary Poppins flies away from the Banks's house (supposedly within a short distance of the City of London), however, she is then shown flying towards the City on a route that would take her over the Banks's house on the way, had she not already flown over it.

21. When the bank executives are basically harassing Michael to give them his money, there is a shot where they are singing and marching forward and force the children to back into the wall. There is a pattern of large squares on the floor, and the men in the back are on the inside edge of the square. Then the camera goes out for a long shot so Mr. Dawes can talk about the banks of England. Now he is standing on the edge of the square. When he finishes his little speech, in the next shot they are standing back in the original position.

22. At the very beginning of the movie, when Mary Poppins is sitting on the cloud, you can see the string attached to her bag just as it almost falls through the cloud.

23. When the penguins walk in front of the table where Mary Poppins and Bert are sitting, the table can still be seen through the penguins.

24. During the Spoonful of Sugar song Mary stands in front of a mirror and sings along with her reflection. Her reflection sings "they find." but the mouth movements do not match.

25. When the kids enter their home after being found by the cop, Michael brings his kite with his right arm raised, and the kite standing up noticeably. A frame later his hand is down and the kite is laying so low it can't be seen.

26. When the kids meet Mary, Michael is in awe standing against a door. A frame later his head rests half on the door and half on its white frame.

27. After the credits all the smoke coming out of the chimneys remains still, revealing it's a painted set.

28. Mary takes a huge mirror out of her bag and the kids stare in awe. Problem is that Michael's view points in a different direction, giving away that they were looking at the void and Mary was a superimposed image to achieve the effect.

29. Mr. Banks is about to interview the nannies and looks at his watch. His handkerchief is longer on the right side. When the angle changes, both sides are equally long.

30. When Mr. Banks throws the kids' letter pieces to the fireplace, their position changes between shots.

31. When Mary takes the mirror out of her bag the kids stand far from each other, but appear closer together in the close-up shot. This also happens when she takes the lamp out.

32. When Mary Poppins just starts to sing "Feed the Birds", she sings "The little old bird woman comes" but if you look very closely at the end of this shot, you can see that her mouth does not finish the word "comes" (her mouth stops at come).

33. After Michael and Jane have been sucked into the chimney and then pop out, Mary Poppins pops out a short time afterward. When she does so, a dark, obvious cable can be seen supporting her.

34. In the shot where Jane and Michael are looking out the window at Mary Poppins you can see Jane's bangs are blown to the right side of her forehead because of the wind. In the next shot they're combed perfectly straight again.

35. Near the end of the movie after Mr. Banks throws the kite in the air and the camera shows the kite, you can see a white wire to the left of the kite that isn't the kite's string that pulls the kite over.

36. Bert makes a riddle about a short woman and her daughters behind laugh, lowering their heads and turning them around. A frame later, from a wider angle, they are repeating the previous movements.

37. During the credits Mary puts make-up on her face and raises her umbrella and bag. When the angle changes they both disappear.

38. Mary takes the coat rack out of her bag with the umbrella by the table. When the kids inspect the bag the umbrella is gone.

39. Bert introduces the Admiral, who stands by the end of the banister, next to the canon. A frame later he has moved about 5 meters to the left.

40. After the credits, Bert makes a riddle about the cop and right after his accordion is heard, but he isn't playing it.

41. Near the end, just before "Let's Go Fly A Kite", when Mr Banks has returned home his detachable collar is detached on his left-hand side in shots from the front but not from the back of him.

42. When Mary Poppins has the robin on her finger, just after the outside shot where the robin does his whistle bit, you can see the cables used to operate the bird on the back of her hand while she turns away from the window.

43. When everyone is on top of the roof, Mary Poppins powders her nose, which results in her nose being black with soot. The scenes following that, her nose is normal and never black as when she powders it.

44. During the first few scenes, you see Jane is missing a tooth but the tooth disappears and reappears throughout the film.

45. When Mr. Banks takes the children to the bank, and they meet the directors, first the children are standing close together, with Mr. Banks right behind them. Later, when the elder Mr. Doors is talking to them, Mr. Banks is next to Michael and the children are farther apart. Later still, when we see Michael close up, Jane is out of the shot altogether, meaning that she is even farther away from him than previously.

46. When Bert is showing Jane and Michael his chalk sketches and doing his tightrope demonstration, you can see the pigeons in the corner on the far side of the bench. In the next shot when Jane points out the English countryside, the pigeons are right behind Bert again and walking away.

47. Jane and Michael switch sides while they are holding Burt's hand when he walks them home.

48. In the tea party on the ceiling scene when Mary takes out her watch, watch closely, she doesn't take it from behind her jacket. When she seems to reach behind her jacket it just appears in her hand. When she puts it back she reaches behind her jacket again, but it just disappears just before she puts her hand back there.

49. When Mary, Bert, and the children enter the tea parlor and see Uncle Albert floating by the ceiling, the camera cuts to Bert behind Mary, then Bert in front of Mary (Bert preparing to laugh and levitate), then a shot of the children shows Bert behind Mary again. Bert cannot move this fast in a split second.

50. When Mary reads the measuring tape after measuring herself the message reads up and down (as shown to the audience), but then the camera shows Mary reading it side to side.

51. During the 'Spoonful of Sugar' musical number, when Mary Poppins is singing to the robin in the children's room, the wire connected to the audio-animatronic bird can be seen just under Poppins' two fingers, very close to her palm.

52. At the end of the scene where Bert is a one-man-band, he smashes a cymbal on his forehead at the end of his song. The cymbal could not make any sound as he is holding it with both hands, preventing any vibration.

53. In the scene with the queue of Nannies, and the chimneytop scenes, the wires holding the actors can be seen clearly.

54. When the rooftop dance sequence begins and 3 of Bert's pals appear to shoot out of 3 round smoke stacks, they are actually coming from behind the stacks.

55. After Bert rescues the Fox from the dogs the Fox says "Tis an elegant merry go round horse." If you look closely you'll notice that the voice recording is slightly off-sync with the animation on the Fox's mouth.

56. When the cook attacks the chimney sweeps, she uses a non-stick frying pan. Non-stick frying pans weren't invented until the 1950s, and the movie takes place in the 1910s.

57. When Mary is taking the things out of her bag when she arrives, she takes out a large floor lamp. You can see the lamp's post coming up through the bag and the table as she pulls it out.

58. When Mary Poppins ascends to join the others for tea at Uncle Bert's house, she starts with her purse clasped in her hand. As she ascends, the purse is suddenly draped over her arm.

~Why Mary Poppins is my favorite movie:
1. When I was a kid I used to wish I could have a room like the Jane and Michael.

2. I always loved the songs and dances.

3. I am a Julie Andrews fan and love her in the Sound of Music. Can we tell I like musicals..haha

4. The Chimney Sweepers dance on the roof is one of my favorites. I told myself the dance when I was a kid and used to do it in my living room when watching it. :laughing:

5. I love the chalk drawings Bert does on the sidewalks. When I was a kid I thought it was the most amazing thing especially when they could jump into them even though I knew it wasn't real.

6. Love the penguins in the movie when Mary Poppins and Bert jump into one of his drawings. One of my favorite parts seeing the penguins. I also learned their little dance in that scene also. I was a dancer growing up so it was my thing....haha

7. I loves listening to Julie Andrews sing.

8. I loved the era it was in and loved the way the houses and streets looked. I wanted to walk down the streets with Bert in the beginning of the movie. I know I am a weirdo..haha

9. I wanted to try the medicine she would give the kids. It looked yummy...haha

10. I love how as a kid you could just use your imagination with this movie which I feel is very important as a child to have an imagination and to have creative thinking.

11. I love how innocent this movie, as all Disney movies are. It is a great movie for everyone to watch. With the singing, dancing, cartoons and bright colors. It might be hard to understand as a child what everything means but its ok. The bright colors and songs and dancing are great to watch.

12. I love this movie and was so happy when they came out with Mary Popping on broadway. DH got me tickets for Christmas when it came out. It was a great show that even DH liked and said he would see it again. He really enjoyed it.

I just want to say I had so much fun doing your trivia. It kept me busy when DD was sleeping which is a lot since she doesn't like to take long naps but lots of catnaps through out the day. So when I finished with all the chores I had to do for the day I would sit here and do the trivia or do it when I would wait for her to get up for the morning. My favorite was looking up trivia for the movies. I loved learning about certain facts and looking at the mistakes of movies. It is always fun to go back and look to see the mistakes or the hidden Mickey's. Hope you have a great trip in a few weeks and can't wait to hear about it. Now here are some pictures from Mary Poppins movie:
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My favorite movie of all time was The little mermaid!
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I have never really had a dad in my life- even when I lived with him my stepmother was who I was told to go to. I always envied Ariel for her dad and thought that she always misunderstood him and instead of thinking that he was too much it took all of that for her to see that he really loves her and would do anything for her!
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Plus all of the songs are really great! My favorite character in the movie though was flounder! I always saw myself as flounder- I had a friend when I was younger that had 2 strict parents and I was always tagging along with her! She was the one that would get into trouble and I was scared and held back even though I really didn't have any parents that would scorn me for going through with what we were doing!
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My favorite song in the whole movie is Under the sea! This is the video link!
My older sister Melissa had danced to that song one year in her tap class and I loved the costume so much that I took it from her when we were separated and would play dress up in it to look like Ariel! It was a green sequence skirt with a slit on the side all the way up to the hip and they had this tan fabric where the stomach was and to the arms and to decorate the tan they had the seashells like she has! It was pretty and I called my sister but none of us have that picture of the costume:sad2:
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And now for some facts!
~The little mermaid is a popular fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (no wonder I like it, I have always liked his work!)about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince. Written originally as a ballet, the tale was first published in 1837 and has been adapted to various media including musical theatre and animated film.
~In 1961, Shirley Temple Theatre broadcast a television version of "The Little Mermaid", starring Shirley Temple as the Mermaid. I also love Shirley Temple! I remember watching them when I was younger with my grandmother!
~A statue of the Little Mermaid normally sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbor in Langelinie. This small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and a major tourist attraction. The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, after he had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale. The sculptor Edward Eriksen created the statue, which was unveiled on 23 August 1913. His wife, Eline Eriksen, was the model. It has been severely vandalized several times. In May 2010, it was moved from its Copenhagen harbor emplacement for the first time ever, for transport to Expo 2010 in Shanghai where it remained until October 20th 2010. In the Disney version of The Little Mermaid, at the end when Ariel is sitting on top of the rock looking longingly at Prince Eric, she is in the exact same postion that the real-life one is. Oh I want to see this one day! One day!!! This is a picture of the statue though!
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By the way- did you ever tell us your favorite?
 
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