Pepe Ruizwas the u-nion’s business manager. In 1966 – the year prior to this expo – I was a junior in college, determined to break into the animation industry. Of course, I knew the military was coming as soon as I graduated, but I called the u-nion to have a meeting with Pep...
I danced to ‘ABC’ and ‘I want You Back’ at junior high dances when these songs were all over KRLA-AM radio in Los Angeles. Although I tended to move into more ‘rock’ music as the years wore on, my younger brother was a HUGE J5 fan. He had all their vinyl LP’s and 45...
In 1987, Jackson released his third solo album, “Bad” with a Martin Scorsese-directed short film. Bad went on to have five number-one singles and spawned an eighteen-month tour, which grossed more than two hundred million dollars. After his world tour, Jackson wrote his memoirs with an ...
Read More » 740 Park: “Gossipalooza” Michael GrossOctober 19, 2024 The release this week of my pal David Netto‘s luscious book, Rosario Candela & the New York Apartment, 1927–1937: The Architecture of the Age, celebrating the
The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unhol...
Within weeks the spot was in color and two junior exec. agency guys, John and I stood around the Hubley moviola. (It was a great machine with four sound heads and a picture head that was the size of a sheet of animation paper. Pegs were actually attached to enable rotoscoping!) The ...
s the M.O. of the Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan. Blatantly mocking China’s one-child policy, the show revolves around legendary private eye Charlie Chan, here a cartoon widower raising ten Chan children (which may explain why Mrs. Chan is no longer with us). The junior Chans are ...
social security and everything was in a fast food restaurant. Then I got on at a regular restaurant that served steaks and everything else. I was pretty good at it and I liked the life. So in my junior year I heard from a co-worker about the Culinary Institute of America. I got a...
Mark had an overnight success withFacemash.comat Harvard (20K hits in the first day, according to the movie). He was forced to shut it down by Harvard.The summer 1999, between my junior and senior year at the University of Maine, I launchedRateMyFace.com(the precursor to HotorNot –...
Junior seems to have some recurring relationship with the bear who has threatened to eat the sheep. . 24 The pig has his character . . . . 25 . . . while the funny and cute chickens are obviously meant for killing. This gives meaning to all the animals on the farm – as is natural...