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unusual facts about Benjamin Joffe-Walt


Lu Banglie

This attracted global media attention in 2005 when Lu was severely beaten by hired thugs and the incident was witnessed by Guardian journalist Benjamin Joffe-Walt.


Alex Grossi

Alex has had music placed in multiple T.V. shows and motion pictures including the Quincy Jones produced film The Smokers, the FX hit series Sons of Anarchy as well as the Walt Disney/Touchstone picture The Proposal and the VH1 series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.

Ananda Sukarlan

No. 2 LIBERTAS (for baritone soloist & mixed choir, accompanied by 8 instrumentalists) based on poems by Chairil Anwar, Ilham Malayu, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Walt Whitman, Luis Cernuda, WS Rendra, Hasan Aspahani 27'

Anne Sweeney

She oversees Walt Disney Television Animation, Buena Vista Worldwide Television and Walt Disney Television International, and has responsibility for managing Disney’s equity interests in Lifetime Entertainment Services, and A&E Television Networks.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Among the performers to grace the stage of the Walt Whitman Theatre are Luciano Pavarotti, Isaac Stern, Gregory Hines, Margot Fonteyn, Beverly Sills, Ray Charles, Joan Sutherland, Tony Bennett, Les Ballets Africains, Isaac Hayes, Vladimir Horowitz, Andre Watts, The Temptations, Arthur Rubinstein, The National Dance Theatre of Jamaica, Jose Greco, The Moiseyev Dance Company, Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, and Itzhak Perlman.

Century Plaza Hotel

The hotel's ballrooms became the center for numerous high-profile events, including an opening charity gala in 1966 emceed by Bob Hope, who with singer Andy Williams entertained the likes of Ronald and Nancy Reagan and Walt and Lillian Disney.

Comic Book Men

He has also written comic books, including Karney and War of the Undead, both of which were illustrated by Walt Flanagan.

Disney Enterprises

Retlaw Enterprises, originally Walt Disney Inc. then WED Enterprises, was Walt Disney's personal corporation that owned the rights to his name and other properties affiliated with Walt Disney Productions and Disneyland that latter became a real estate and TV stations holding company.

WED Enterprises, original name for Walt Disney Imagineering when the name and the theme park design and architectural group was purchased by Walt Disney Productions from Retlaw Enterprises

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

producer = Walt deFaria
Paul G. Hensler
Ken Karawai
Terry Ogisu
Shintaro Tsuji

Eaters of the Dead

The novel was adapted into film as The 13th Warrior (1999), directed by John McTiernan and released by Walt Disney Pictures through its Touchstone banner.

Gé Korsten

In his later life, Korsten was well known for his role as family patriarch Walt Vorster in the long-running South African soap opera Egoli: Place of Gold.

Golden Oak at Walt Disney World Resort

In addition, buyers will have access to certain features at the nearby planned Four Seasons Resort Orlando (also within the Walt Disney World Resort).

Hong Kong Disneyland Resort

The managing director of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort is Andrew Kam, who reports to Bill Ernest, President and Managing Director, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, Asia.

Jaromír Weinberger

It was once considered by the artists of the Walt Disney studio to be made into a Fantasia segment for Fantasia 2000, but lost out to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, in the form of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier".

Johnny Neel

Neel has provided vocals on five songs included on four Walt Disney Records CD releases, related to the Pixar Animation Studios movie releases, Finding Nemo, Cars, and Ratatouille.

Joseph Fowler

Joe Fowler (1894-1993), United States Naval Admiral who had an important part in the building of Walt Disney World

Justin Kaplan

Walt Whitman won the 1981 award for hardcover "Autobiography/Biography".

Kuwahara

Bob Kuwahara (1901-1964), Japanese-American animator for Walt Disney and Terrytoons

Laurence Wright

Wright's early work with theme parks included his composing the music for several of the attractions featured at the General Motors' World of Motion pavilion, one of the original attractions to open in 1982 at the Orlando, Florida Walt Disney World EPCOT theme park.

Lewis William Walt

Lewis William Walt was born on February 16, 1913, in Wabaunsee County, Kansas.

LSU School of Music

The LSU A Cappella Choir was the featured university choral group at the finale concert for the ACDA Annual Convention at the Walt Disney Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Nightmare Theatre

For most of its run, the late-night program opened with a shot of a mist-shrouded castle (in actuality, a touched-up Addams Family Haunted House Aurora model kit), accompanied by sound effects borrowed from Walt Disney's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House and music pilfered from Neal Hefti's score for the 1966 Roddy McDowall film Lord Love a Duck.

Part of Your World

"Part of Your World" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman for Walt Disney Picture's twenty-eighth animated feature film The Little Mermaid (1989).

Partners Federal Credit Union

Originally, membership in Partners FCU was limited to Walt Disney Company employees working in Orange County, California.

Prana Studios

The Pirate Fairy (2014) (co-production with Walt Disney Pictures and DisneyToon Studios)

Pump Girls

They have shared the stage with 1999 Miss America Nicole Johnson as well as other Walt Disney and Radio Disney musicians.

Rex Allen, Jr.

(born August 23, 1947) is an American country music singer, who started singing at the age of six; he had followed in the footsteps of his father, Rex Allen, a singing cowboy and the narrator of many Walt Disney films.

Ron Tarrant

While at the Range, Tarrant presented Walt Disney Studio's with their radio trailer for the 2008 film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian providing the voice over and production.

Roy O. Disney

While Walt was the creative man, Roy was the one who made sure the company was financially stable; Roy and Walt both founded Disney Studios as brothers, but Walt would buy out most of Roy's share in 1929 and, unlike Max and Dave Fleischer of rival Fleischer Studios, Roy was not a co-producer.

Satoshi Ohno

In commemoration of Walt Disney's 110th anniversary, the documentary will explore and reveal the secrets behind the origins and processes of Walt's creations.

Saul Goodman

When Walt angrily blows up the Dodge Challenger he initially bought for Walt Jr. as a result of Skyler forcing him to return it, Saul helps deal with the legal consequence and to cover up the incident.

Sea Drift

Sea-Drift, a section of Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass

Sister Suffragette

According to the songwriters in their autobigraphical book, Walt's Time, Actress Glynis Johns had thought that she was being offered the eponymous role when in fact she had been slotted to play "Mrs. Banks" instead.

South Fayette Township School District

In addition to numerous performances at Pittsburgh Steelers games, the band has performed in the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the Walt Disney World “Magic Music Days” Parade and many other high visibility venues across the East Coast.

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion

All previously printed stories are from issues of Uncle Scrooge except for Hearts of the Yukon which was printed in Walt Disney Giant #1.

The Return of the Shaggy Dog

In keeping with the tradition that Walt Disney introduced films, Return of the Shaggy Dog was introduced by Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who attempts to invoke the transformation on Wilby, but when Eisner states the words, he has passed on the curse from Wilby to himself.

The Walt

According to their official website the Walt's influences include bands such as At the Drive-In, Medications, Q and not U, 31Knots and Hot Snakes.

The Walt Disney Company Latin America

LRL301 Radio Disney (4.75%; shares owned by The Walt Disney Company Argentina).

Toy Tinkers

A comic book adaptation of the short was published in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #2, printed by Dell Comics in 1950.

Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut

Her true love is Walt, a member of the Glass family, for whom she pines in the wake of his death during his service in the army.

Vienna Boys' Choir

In 1961, Walt Disney filmed Almost Angels, a fictional drama about (and starring) the Vienna Boys' Choir, set and filmed in the Palais Augarten.

Walt Disney Treasures

In 2006, Gemstone Publishing published the first of two Walt Disney Treasures comic albums: "Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation", reprinting approximately 160 pages of vintage international comics in chronological order.

Walt Levinsky

Later Walt attended the Music Conservatory at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania where he majored in clarinet.

During these New York years Walt worked and recorded with many 'name' artists such as: Tony Bennett, Stan Getz, Lena Horne, Gerry Mulligan, Doc Severinsen, Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan.

Walt's – An American Restaurant

Other artworks present Tony Baxter's Discovery Bay which was the basic inspiration for the land, the now-gone Visionarium with one photograph of Michel Piccoli's portrayal of Verne, and the Orbitron ride.

Main Street Room: This dining room was ornamented with Imagineer Herbert Ryman's artworks for Main Street, U.S.A., and a model of the Main Street Transportation Building.

Walter Hyatt

Uncle Walt's Band gained a cult following around the world, ranging from the University of California - Berkeley to Moscow University in Russia.

Western River

Western River Expedition, themed attraction designed for Walt Disney World in Florida, USA, but never built

World in Motion 1

Special thanks: Mike Corkran, Bill Mueller, Gordon Miller Music, Edward S. Feldman & Bob Sellars for the custom guitars, Derek Sutton, Bob Goldstein (it's in the mail), Peter Sullivan, Elton, Marvin & Stevie, Don Wehner, Barton Kenney, Casey Dansicker, Nancy Scaggs, Jeff Miller (it's in the mail II), Walt Copeland, Randy, Paul, Jeep, and everyone at MSI


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