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...Lasseter, reviving Disney animation while maintaining Pixar's excellence will be quite a feat. The Burbank shop is a husk of the studio that made The Lion King in 1994. Hundreds of animators lost their jobs in the wake of duds like Atlantis. Rival studios like DreamWorks, meanwhile, created hot characters such as Shrek, worth millions in licensing revenue. And Disney all but ignored digital animation until recently...
...Catmull says creatives at Disney animation and Pixar will work more closely on story development too. At Pixar staff members hold councils in which they dissect plot lines and characters and share notes on one another's projects. Lasseter is expected to infuse more of that freewheeling style in Burbank...
DIED. OFELIA FOX, 82, manager and "first lady" of Havana's famed Tropicana nightclub during its 1950s heyday, when regulars included Marlon Brando and Joan Crawford; in Burbank, Calif. With its casino, showgirls and lavish stage shows, the club was a renowned hot spot before Castro took it over...
...Burbank said Westfall was a unique professor during that...
...somebody that we would call quite ‘laid-back’ and, at the time, there was a pretty striking contrast between him and a lot of the faculty, who were like characters out of ‘[The] Paper Chase,’” Burbank said. “He was the antithesis of that—a gentleman who elicited participation not by fear but by inviting a dialogue...