57 years ago today, Disney’s Sleeping Beauty premiered at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles. It was the last film based on a fairy tale that the House of Mouse made for over 30 years, until 1989’s The Little Mermaid, since Sleeping Beauty underperformed at the box office, leading to massive layoffs at Disney. The successful release of 101 Dalmatians in 1961 ended up saving Disney Animation. Though Sleeping Beauty wasn’t a hit at its debut, the film’s become a beloved Disney classic, with Aurora in her pink dress (you win, Flora) prominent among the lineup of Disney princesses, and with Maleficent now an iconic animated villain. Maleficent got her own movie starring Angelina Jolie in 2014. Other notable January 29 happenings in pop culture history: • 1845: Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. • 1942: BBC Radio first aired “Desert Island Discs.” Still on the air today,...
- 1/29/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
The Super Bowl is the biggest game in American Football and one of the biggest annual sporting events in the world. However often a person watches American football, they all have their own favourite Super Bowl or that moment that they will always remember.
For anyone unaware of how the Super Bowl works or why there are often two different teams in the game each year it is pretty simple.
The NFL is divided into the Afc and the Nfc and each year the champions of each division meet in a one off game called the Super Bowl. February 2nd 2013 will be Super Bowl Xlviii (48) where Afc Champions the Denver Broncos will take on the Nfc Champions the Seattle Seahawks at the MetLife stadium in New Jersey.
Of the previous 47 Super Bowls there have been some high and low scoring matches, some incredible moments, some upsets and some blow outs...
For anyone unaware of how the Super Bowl works or why there are often two different teams in the game each year it is pretty simple.
The NFL is divided into the Afc and the Nfc and each year the champions of each division meet in a one off game called the Super Bowl. February 2nd 2013 will be Super Bowl Xlviii (48) where Afc Champions the Denver Broncos will take on the Nfc Champions the Seattle Seahawks at the MetLife stadium in New Jersey.
Of the previous 47 Super Bowls there have been some high and low scoring matches, some incredible moments, some upsets and some blow outs...
- 1/28/2014
- by Michael O'Brien
- Obsessed with Film
Bouncer: Welcome to Pure nightclub in Las Vegas ... are you on the list? Jerry Rice: No, but I'm wearing my 1989 Super Bowl ring ... we cool? Our friends at SpyOnVegas.com managed to recognize Jerry with his trusty new mustache Saturday night ... wearing the most baller piece of nightclub jewelry possible -- his ring from Super Bowl Xxiii . Winner. Read more...
- 11/8/2010
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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