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Before he achieved celebrity status, Billy was a homebody whose idea of distant places was an occasional vacation in Florida's Walt Disney World with Sybil and the six kids (ages five months to 20 years). Now he travels as much to get out of Plains as to garner honorariums. Says Billy: "Hell, Plains is turning into a three-ring circus." So much so that Billy has been all but driven from his familiar haunts: a discarded school bus seat blocks access to the back room of the famous service station where he quaffs his afternoon beers, and nobody...
Died. John Hubley, 62, innovative animator and creator of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo; during heart surgery; in New Haven, Conn. While working at the Walt Disney studio, Hubley contributed to many memorable full-length cartoons, including the lyrical Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia. With his wife Faith, he formed a production company in 1955; they made films explaining the works of Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as well as on abstract ideas of psychology, peace, science and democracy. The first of their three Academy Awards was won in 1960 for Moon bird, a joyful cartoon that...
Among the delights she found was the screening room, where she had Walt Disney's Freaky Friday run off for herself and a schoolmate, Claudia Sanchez, the daughter of a Chilean Embassy cook. There was also bowling in the basement alley, a snowball fight with her mother and brothers outside the Oval Office and a fast new friend: Grits, a mongrel puppy that was given to her by her new teacher Verona Meeder. After spending his first night on the pink rug in Amy's second-floor bedroom along with her cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Grits...
...filmmakers whose works make up this program of cartoon shorts combine imagination and technology with a wicked sense of visual wit to come up with this series of fantasies that should beguile even those who hated Fantasia. Like the best of Disney's minions, these animators take the laws governing commonplace existence, turn them inside out and render the impossible persuasive...
...heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in England, Finch worked in Australia, where Sir Laurence Olivier spotted him acting in a lunchtime show at a glass factory. Finch was soon playing Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His mastery was evident in whatever parts he played, from Walt Disney roles to the sensitive homosexual in Sunday. Finch savored his life both off and on camera. "One hopes that one is something else from year to year," he said. "If you keep an open mind, you must...