Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Rolly Crump, Legendary Disney Animator and Imagineer, Dies at 93
thewrap.comRolly Crump, a legendary Disney animator and Imagineer, whose designs helped define the early days of Disneyland, has died at the age of 93.Rolly joined Walt Disney Studios in 1952, working on a number of the period’s animated features in marginal positions, including serving as an in-between artist on “Peter Pan” and as an assistant animator on “Lady and the Tramp,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “One Hundred and One Dalmatians.”In 1959, he was recruited by Walt to join what was then known as WED Enterprises, later Walt Disney Imagineering.
While at Imagineering, he worked on designs for The Haunted Mansion (including the prototypical Museum of the Weird), the Enchanted Tiki Room and It’s a Small World, including the iconic Tower of the Four winds sculpture/statue that accompanied It’s a Small World when the ride debuted at the 1964/65 World’s Fair in Queens. (When It’s a Small World made its way to Disneyland, he designed the large, smiling clock on the building’s façade.)“People say the term legend can get overused but Rolly was a legend,” former Imagineer Jim Shull said. “I don’t think you’d have a Disneyland without Rolly Crump.
He was a character and he was also an artist. He wasn’t concerned about the business side, he was concerned with the artist side.”As a young Imagineer, Crump took Shull under his wing.
Shull remembers a day when Crump brought Shull on a tour of the Haunted Mansion. When they reached the ballroom scene, Crump instructed Shull to “go sit there.” Shull took a seat where the ghost organist sits (the organ itself was a prop from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”).
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