Elton John – Doyle’s Space: Music Hall of Fame

Elton John’s career total to 68 Billboard Hot 100 entries, a run that began with “Border Song,” which marked his Billboard chart debut on Aug. 15, 1970.

Sir Elton John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on March 25, 1947, in Pinner, Middlesex, England, is a legendary British singer, songwriter, and pianist. Raised in a council house by his maternal grandparents, Elton displayed a prodigious talent for music from an early age, learning to play the piano by ear at just four years old. His parents recognized his musical gift and encouraged his pursuits. He later attended the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship but dropped out at 17 to pursue a career in music.

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Jules Faber – Illustrator and Cartoonist

A cartoonist, caricature artist, illustrator and finished artist located in Coffs Harbour, a city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

Cartoonist and illustrator, Jules Faber, was born in Australia on June 21, 1957. He was educated in Vienna. His passion for science illustration stems from the late 90s when, while studying animation, Jules was leafing through one of Dr. Karl’s[1] earlier books.

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Coloring Books

Stay within the lines

A coloring book is a type of book containing line art to which people are intended to add color using crayons, colored pencils, marker pens, paint, or other artistic media. Traditional coloring books and coloring pages are printed on paper or cards.

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Gilbert Gottfried Dies

“You never know what people will choose to be offended by.”

Gilbert Gottfried was born on February 28, 1955, in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. He started doing stand-up at age 15 and became known as a “comedian’s comedian”. In 1980, Gibert was hired for season 6 of Saturday Night Live. He was known for his shrilling voice, squinting eyes, crude humor, and being the hilarious voice of the  Aflac Duck in commercials. After sinking dramatically with some 9/11 humor he became the “too soon” comic.

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Onward (2020)

I watched the 2020 Disney and Pixar computer animated fantasy adventure movie on Netfix DVD. Directed by Dan Scanlon (worked on Cars, Monsters University), produced by Kori Rae (worked on Monsters, Inc. , The Incredibles, Monster’s University) and written by Scanlon, Jason Headley and Keith Bunin. The story is about a world inhabited with mythical creatures living normal lives but there may still be some of their ancient magic out there.

The voices in this movie are Tom Holland (Spiderman), Chris Pratt (Starlord), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine on Seinfeld, New Adventures of Old Christine, Christmas Vacation), Octavia Spencer (The Divergent Series), Mel Rodriguez (Panic Room, Garfield-The Movie, Captain Underpants), Kyle Bornheimer, Lena Waithe, Ali Wong (Ralph Breaks the Internet), Grey DeLisle (Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, voice for Daphne in Scooby-Doo franchise),

Tracey Ullman (Tracey Ullman Show, Corpse Bride, Flushed Away), Wilmer Valderrama, John Ratzenberger (Cliff on Cheers, Toy Story, Ratatouille, WALL-E, UP, Brave) and Bonnie Hunt

(Rain Man, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc., Cars, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Monsters University, Cars 3, Toy Story 4).

I liked the movie and will give it 3 out of 5 stars. Check out Wikipedia, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes for more information on this movie.