Word: burbank
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...Burton's career began in 1976, when as an 18-year-old, the Burbank, Calif. native won a scholarship to attend the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), a college founded by Walt Disney and featuring a program that, at that time, served as a training school for prospective animators. He joined Disney in 1979, working as an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Though he disliked the film's style and very little of his own work was used, he was hired as a conceptual artist for the studio's 1984 animated film The Black Cauldron, though...
...about the budget suggested he "broom out" some of the details and move on. But the film's star, George Clooney, stood fast. It was scenes like this that had induced him to cut his price in order to make the picture. Besides, Russell was certain that back in Burbank he had Warner Bros.' support. One of its senior executives had told him that if he couldn't occasionally green-light a movie like this one, he didn't want...
Raised in Burbank, Calif., and discovered at 17 by an agent who spotted her from his car after a Rolling Stones concert, Russo suffered some tough breaks: a deadbeat dad, childhood scoliosis, spiritually bankrupt if well-paid years as a top cover girl. Things are better now, thanks to her faith and family life with screenwriter husband Dan Gilroy and five-year-old daughter Rose. Though Russo has yet to carry a film on her own (her sole effort was the failed kid flick Buddy), she still takes home $5 million a picture. Next she branches out to broad comedy...
DIED. SANDRA GOULD, 73, actress; in Burbank, Calif. A veteran of hundreds of radio programs and two dozen films, she is best remembered as Gladys Kravitz, the rarely welcome next-door neighbor on Bewitched, and as Betty Rubble's voice on The Flintstones...
DIED. RORY CALHOUN, 76, rugged film and TV heartthrob; of complications from diabetes and emphysema; in Burbank, Calif. While horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills in 1943, Calhoun, then a laborer named Francis Durgin, was approached by Alan Ladd, who suggested a career in show business. Calhoun was best known for his roles in westerns and as Big Bill Longley, a good guy on the late '50s cbs drama The Texan...