Editor Ends 50 Years on Job
Date: 01 January 1968
W Bretscher retires after 50 yrs with top daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Jean-Christophe Beck (born 1968) is a Canadian television and film score composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Disney and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Frozen (2013) and Frozen 2 (2019), the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) as well as the TV miniseries WandaVision (2021), Hawkeye (2021), and Agatha All Along (2024) for Marvel Studios, and Free Guy (2021) for 20th Century Studios, as well as Disney's 100th anniversary logo.
He composed the scores for several of Shawn Levy's films, including Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Pink Panther (2006), The Internship (2013), and Free Guy (2021). Notably, he won an Emmy Award in 1998 for his work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is also known for composing the scores of the film series The Hangover (2009-2013). He is the older brother of composer, pianist and rapper Chilly Gonzales.
Read more...The January 1, 1968 was a Monday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 0 day of the year. President of the United States was Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Date: 01 January 1968
W Bretscher retires after 50 yrs with top daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Date: 01 January 1968
By HENRY RAYMONT
Henry RAYMONT
Article on career; illus
Date: 01 January 1968
Internatl Press Inst describes US press and TV--coverage of war as 'unequaled in any war in history' because of US information policy
Date: 01 January 1968
By TAD SZULC Special to The New York Times
Tad Special
Relative comfort in which some 30 labor leaders are held in Carabanchel prison, Madrid, for 'illegal assemblies' and 'illegal manifestations' seen sign Franco regime is easing its harshness; leftist leader M Camacho, held so far without trial, was able, from prison cell, to win libel suit against Falangist press
Date: 01 January 1968
Bryan Bartlett Starr
Bryan Starr
Article on career and role in NFL champ game; illus
Date: 02 January 1968
Special to The New York Times
Date: 01 January 1968
Time and Newsweek coincidentally use yr-end covers drawn by same caricaturist, D Levine; both covers illus
Date: 02 January 1968
Dept of Labor and Indus rents 136 plans for indus construction approved, Nov, for total of 1.6-million sq ft
Date: 01 January 1968
Austin Co indus bldg costs index, Oct-Dec, repts rise to 270% of avg bldg costs in '26