The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning. "It's true. Both offices were closed and locked and undisturbed after Walt’s death with only an occasional maintenance person going inside to dust and vacuum. I think he was finding out how a young mind worked. It’s essentially the escapist fantasy that a University dean would have wanted for themselves at the time, taking place in a world where they wouldn’t have to worry about sit-ins or protests or bombings or the National Guard potentially gunning down a member of their student body. With great care and at great expense, Walt’s working office from the Disneyland exhibit had been installed “temporarily, just for the celebration.” The office remains there a decade later because of the time and expense to transport it back to California much to the chagrin of Disneyland cast members. He’s got Kurt (as) ‘Kirt.’”. Kurt Russell was on the set of Universal Studios filming a western TV show the day Walt Disney died. It’d be Russell’s fourth movie for Disney over the past three years, though it would be his first as a leading man. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 17, 1951, Kurt was raised in Los Angeles where his father, Bing Russell, starred as Deputy Clem on the Bonanza television series. Perhaps Walt had written the actor’s name weeks earlier, while planning a next picture for him? Over the years, Kurt has never lost his boyish charm, nor forgotten his Disney roots. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Redefined. “The script lady pulled me aside one day and said, ‘I think they’re going to offer you a contract. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes 1969. To celebrate the release of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, all this week we’ll be running pieces about the films of 1969 — the good, the bad, and the ugly, much like you’d find at the multiplex or at your local arthouse if you were going to the movies alongside Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth. The film was a success, and would spawn two sequels, both of which starred Russell in the same role. Both were in their early teens and each stood 5-foot-1 and weighed 95 pounds. In 1979, his career came full circle when he earned an Emmy® nomination for his role as Elvis Presley in the John Carpenter telefilm Elvis. © 2020 Vanyaland | Redefined. I think he was a realistic dreamer. “These were obviously projects that he [Walt] thought would be good to do. “It isn’t exactly a true story, that this was the last thing [Disney] wrote in his office,” Gunn says. “And here comes Walt Disney,” said Russell. I think he was quite impressed even though Walt misspelled it. All rights reserved. The film relates the story of the “miracle on ice”—the gold-medal triumph of the underdog American hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics. “When I was over at Universal working on a Western while under contract at Disney, I was shooting a close-up and noticed there was some hubbub going on off camera. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Because you’re not intimidated by him.’ I never could figure out why anybody would be intimidated by him. You can find all of these pieces here, alongside our forthcoming review of Tarantino’s latest. or redistributed. Yes, that’s right: this is a movie in which bookies kidnap and then try to kill a kid so that they can protect their investment in a huge multi-vac computer that helps them cheat. I went down to the stage one lunch time and I said, ‘I’ve got something I’d like you to see up in Walt’s office.’ I took him up to Walt’s office and showed him one of the last things that Walt had written was his name. The New York Times reported a month prior to his death, Disney had surgery to remove a lung tumor that was discovered after he was treated for an old neck injury he suffered during a polo match. In 1966, Kurt played a starring role in Disney's feature film Follow Me, Boys! and later voiced Copper, the young hunting dog, in the animated feature The Fox and the Hound.” Kurt also appeared in Disney television shows, including Willie and the Yank and The Secret of Boyne Castle. Have a question about our comment policies? Walt Disney took an instant liking to Kurt and signed him to an exclusive Studio contract, making him the Studio’s teen star of the 1960s and ‘70s. Have fun today, guys.’ And it was from that moment on, I knew that guy was cool. The rest of the ’69 slate was a shambles: There was the anti-racist Glenn Ford-led western Smith!, the adaptation of Sterling North’s best-selling boy-and-his raccoon children’s book Rascal, which starred The Twilight Zone’s Bill Mumy, and, finally, that year’s Kurt Russell picture, Robert Butler’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, a goofy little science-fiction movie that has been the butt of hundreds of jokes over the years. He began acting on television at the age of 12 in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). Disney should also hire Disney Historian Jim Fanning to do a special featurette for the release, as well.). Way to go! Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. It’s sad you won’t be able to spend time you had together. “I look back on it now and I realize I was this kid, and he was taking the time to pick my brain, because I think that was an important thing for him to do with young people.

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