Walt disney death magazine covers
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A Look at LIFE&#;s &#;Walt Disney: From Mickey to the Magic Kingdom&#;
For the first time since his death nearly 50 years ago, Walt Disney has graced the cover of LIFE magazine. You can imagine my shock to see a young Uncle Walt and Mickey Mouse smiling at me from the rack in the magazine section of my Barnes and Noble bookstore recently.
This LIFE magazine has little to do with the heritage weekly and monthly publication but has everything to do with the new way of getting archival magazine resources in the hands of new media consumers and those looking for nostalgia. The Walt Disney entry is the latest in a series of limited editions from Topix Media Specials utilizing the LIFE, Newsweek and TV Guide names. In the past, Elvis, John Wayne, Princess Diana, and the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music have had dedicated memorable editions.
As I picked up a copy of LIFE's "Walt Disney From Mickey to the Magic Kingdom" and paged feverishly through it, I got to thinking about h
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In all of recorded history, there&#;s perhaps no greater visionary, creative genius, entrepreneur, or dreamer than the incomparable Walter Elias Disney. Walt had a magic all his own&#;and the vision with which to bring that magic to dazzling life (with a little help from his financial genius of a brother, Roy).
But even legends can have secrets, bad habits, and even addictions that lead them down a less-than-magical path. Sadly, this was true of Walt Disney too, and his bad habit and addiction ultimately led to a massive cover-up within The Walt Disney Company decades ago&#;a cover-up that&#;s still being carried out to this day.
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It&#;s common knowledge that the genius animator responsible for Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and a myriad of other beloved Disney characters, as well as Disney&#;s animated classics and Disney Parks, was a heavy sm
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It was a gift that brought back some powerful memories and, today, inom am recalling an event that happened fifty-seven years ago today
When my friend, French Disney scholar Christian Renaut, visited me gods month, he gave me a very special gift: a kopia of the famous 24 månad issue of the French magazine Paris Match featuring a grieving Mickey Mouse to mark the death of Walt Disney, nine days earlier.
The iconic cover painting was by French comic book artist, Pierre Nicolas, and the magazine contained a lengthy appreciation of the American filmskapare under the title, 'Adieu a Walt Disney - Il a Bati Un Empire Sur Une Souris'. Although very aware of this image &#; one that spoke to the global chock with which people received the news of Uncle Walt's death &#; inom had never owned a copy.
inom am twelve years old and I'm getting ready for school and, suddenly, there fryst vatten my father calling up the stairs: 'Brian Walt Disney has died!'
Downstairs inom can hear the murmuring