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Day of Anger is a 1967 Italian-West German Spaghetti Western directed by Tonino Valerii and starring Giuliano Gemma and Lee Van Cleef. Gemma plays Scott Mary, a mistreated street cleaner who becomes the pupil of the skilled gunfighter Frank Talby, played by Van Cleef. Their mentor-student relationsh...
Eric Larson was an American animator and one of Walt Disney's core animators, widely known as the Nine Old Men. He had a lengthy career at the studio, contributing to major films from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 to The Great Mouse Detective in 1986. In the 1970s, he transitioned into a p...
Marin Alsop is an American conductor who served as the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2021. She was the first woman to lead a major American orchestra, marking a significant milestone in classical music history. In 2013, she became the first female conductor to lead...
Walt Stanchfield was an American animator, story artist, and educator who spent decades working at Walt Disney Studios on films like The Jungle Book and The Aristocats. He is best remembered for his internal drawing and gesture classes, where he mentored a generation of Disney animators. His lecture...
