Mickey Mouse hits a milestone
Disney symbol turns 75
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Posted: 4:13 PM EST (2113 GMT)
Mickey Mouse originated in the cartoon "Steamboat Willie," which premiered November 18, 1928.
MICKEY'S 75TH
- Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner was to join the company's animators and the actors who voice its characters at Walt Disney World on Tuesday.
- Seventy-five 6-foot tall, 700-pound statues of the famous mouse were to be unveiled.
- The U.S. Postal Service will start a stamp program next year featuring Disney characters, starting with Mickey.
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Mickey Mouse arrived on the world's cultural stage 75 years ago Tuesday as a scrawny but buoyant black-and-white product of the Jazz Age.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/18/mickeyat75.ap/index.html
On second thought, he couldn't do any worse, well, than Daffy Duck.
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