* *  About Mr. Wayne "Mickey" Allwine & Miss Russi "Minnie" Taylor,  * *
 * *  voice artists of Disney's Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse, talking  * *
 * *  on EntertainMuck this Friday, Jan. 30 at 8 PM PST / 11 PM EST.  * *
Amberthree Productions and the FANtasEARS Disney Fan Club in association
with The Walt Disney Company present a Special Invited Talk with Mr.
Wayne "Mickey Mouse" Allwine and Miss Russi "Minnie Mouse" Taylor.  Join
these two fa-mouse Disney personalities during another in EMuck's series
of live, online chats with Disney celebrities.  This not-to-be-missed
chat session will be this Friday (January 30th) starting at 8 PM
Disneyland time / 11 PM Walt Disney World time, which is 10 PM (U.S. CST,
GMT -0600) / 11 PM Eastern / 8 PM Pacific time.  Here are Mr. Allwine's
and Miss Taylor's extensive voice credits.
  * * * *  Wayne Allwine, Disney's Voice of Mickey Mouse  * * * *
   Mr. Wayne Allwine has been active on both stage and screen most of
his life, making his first TV appearance at the age of seven as one of
the school children interviewed by Art Linkletter on his CBS-TV "House
Party" program.  While still in high school, Mr. Allwine formed his own
acoustic folk music group, The International Singers.  Wayne also was
involved in rock and pop music at the same time, working with singers
like Dobie Gray and Bobby Vinton, and groups like The Drifters and The
Coasters.  He recorded with several groups, and had a hit single
("Blue's Theme") with The Arrows group.
   Hoping to have a more "normal" lifestyle, Mr. Allwine took a job in
the summer of 1966 with the one company he had always admired, The Walt
Disney Studios.  His start in the Disney Mail Room enabled him to meet
and talk with Walt Disney.  Wayne eventually wound up working with Mr.
Jimmy MacDonald, Disney's ace sound effects wizard and the second man
to provide the voice for Mickey Mouse.  Mr. MacDonald had been taught
how to sound like Mickey Mouse from the first person who ever voiced
Mickey, Walt Disney himself.  Wayne Allwine was personally instructed
in sound effects techniques as well as how to give Mickey his voice,
from his dear friend and teacher, Jimmy MacDonald.  After working for
eight years as Mr. MacDonald's only assistant, Jimmy at last retired
pronouncing Wayne "more than ready" to assume the role of Disney's
Chief Creative Sound Effects Person.
   Wayne learned Foley Walking and Sound Effects Editing for TV and
motion pictures, working on hit films like "Splash," "The Buddy Holly
Story," "Three Men and a Baby," and "Robocop."  Wayne was honored with
awards for his work on Steven Spielberg's "Amazing Stories" and Disney's
"The Great Mouse Detective."  Mr. Allwine's creative sound effects can
be heard today in productions like "Disney's Goof Troop," "The Ren and
Stimpy Show" and "The New Tom and Jerry Movie."
   However, the greatest joy and pleasure in Wayne's creative life has
come from his long association with Mr. Disney's favorite mouse, Mickey.
Wayne is now Disney's voice of Mickey Mouse and he has been since 1977.
After "squeaking" for Mickey that year on "The New Mickey Mouse Club,"
Wayne was nominated for an Academy Award for his first featurette,
1983's "Mickey's Christmas Carol."  In 1991 "The Prince and the Pauper"
had Wayne singing and playing *both* Mickey *and* The Prince.  He since
has gone on to portray Mickey in the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" feature
motion picture and most recently in Disney's "Runaway Brain" featurette.
   Wayne's Mickey can be heard everywhere: radio, TV shows, commercials
(everything from Chevrolets in America to Fanta soft drinks in Europe),
holiday specials, toys, cassettes & CDs, talking computer games,
talking wrist-watches & clocks, talking toothbrushes, many Mattel "See
and Say" learning toys, talking Golden Books and, of course, in Disney
theme parks worldwide.
   Wayne's many other voices can be heard in films such as "Elvis,"
"Walt Disney -- One Man's Dream," "Roots II," the "Centennial" 10-part
mini-series, "Imagine -- A Tribute to John Lennon," "Alien Nation --
The Movie" and in the computer games "Dick Tracy" and "Arachniphobia"
to name just a few.
   Mr. Allwine currently lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife
Russi Taylor, the voice of Minnie Mouse (and many other Characters),
and they share four wonderful children.
  * * * *  Russi Taylor, Disney's Voice of Minnie Mouse  * * * *
   Miss Russi Taylor in real life has a light, bubbly personality
that instantly reminds you of the fa-mouse Disney Character she gives
voice to, Minnie Mouse.  She has an energetic quality with an incredible
range, including the voices of newborn infants, children, young women
and various fantasy characters.  Besides being the voice of Minnie Mouse
and many other cartoon characters (e.g., Baby Gonzo, Widget) she does
film dubbing, commercials, and radio drama.  She is fluent in four
languages -- English, German, Italian and Dutch -- and is an expert
in a variety of accents, both regional American and foreign.
   Miss Taylor sung a duet as Minnie Mouse with Elton John on the
"Totally Minnie" special and has given Ms. Mouse life in many other
specials, TV productions, features, commercials, Disney theme parks
worldwide, radio shows and toys.
   Her other Characters include Huey, Dewey, Louie (Donald Duck's
nephews) and Webby in Disney's "Ducktales" as well as for all the
Disney theme parks, features, radio and toys.  Miss Taylor can be
heard on FOX's "The Simpsons" as Martin Prince, Terry, Sherry, Uter
(the little German exchange student) and others, and was awarded
two Personal Emmy Certificates for her work on that show.  Her voice
work as Baby Gonzo on eight seasons of CBS's "Muppet Babies" earned
her five Special Personal Emmy Certificates.  She also received a
Special Personal Emmy Certificate for her work on "Cartoon Heroes to
the Rescue."  Russi was Pearl's mother in Disney's "The Little
Mermaid, as well as the voice of Strawberry Shortcake, Pac Baby,
Pebbles Flintstone and many others.
   Ms. Taylor can also be heard in "The Smurfs," "Gummi Bears,"
"Widget," "Blondie," "Marmaduke," "Kissy Fur," "My Little Pony,"
"Scooby Doo," "Capitol Critters," "Gravedale High," "Mr. Bogus,"
"Dink the Dinosaur," "Pretty Piggys," "Richie Rich," the animated
"Little Rascals," "The Little Clowns of Happytown," "Potato Head
Kids" and "G.I. Joe."
   Her work on the silver screen includes "Who Framed Roger Rabbit,"
"Ducktails, The Movie," "The Jetsons, The Movie" and "The Rescuers
Down Under."  Additional film dubbing credits include "First & Ten,"
"Annie," "The Wall" and "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie."  She also
was in "The Flintstones" TV movie and "The Magic Paintbrush."
   Russi Taylor co-wrote all the dialogue and narration for the
"Wooleycat" series, as well as providing the voice of its Narrator.
Her motion picture and television voice-over productions include
"Rocky III," "Poltergeist," "Punky Brewster," "Mae West," and she
has been the voice of infants and babies in "Terms of Endearment,"
"Benson," "Roseanne"'s baby son D.J., and Ted & Georgette's baby on
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
   She has numerous European credits in both English and Foreign
Language Film Dubbing, and acted in thirty radio dramas, including
"Mrs. Bush's Storytime" on ABC Radio.
   Recent commercials include Coca-Cola, Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops,
Fruity Pebbles Cereal, Green Giant, Pillsbury, Armour, Magic Mountain,
Toys R Us, Mattel, Hasbro, Tomy Toys, Max Factor Lipstick/Blush, and
"Earlybird" for McDonalds.
  * * * *  How do I get to this Special Invited Talk on EMuck?  * * * *
You can use Telnet, a MU* client, or a Java-equipped web browser to get
to EMuck.  After logging in, go to Mickey's Cyber Diner and then to the
Arbordale Auditorium.  EMuck has moved to a new, more powerful home and
the new address is:
        telnet://amberthree.dyn.ml.org:6903
For instructions on how to connect to EMuck, point your web browser to:
        http://alia.ce.umn.edu/emuck/connect.html
...which will remain the same for now, but will move within the next
few weeks to:
        http://amberthree.dyn.ml.org/emuck/connect.html
EMuck will maintain forwarding information at the old URL with the new
addresses, IP numbers, and URLs indefinitely.
I recommend you use MU* client software.  Let me know in e-mail (to
rkoster@calweb.com) what type of computer and operating system you use
(for example: PC with Win95, Mac, etc.) and I'll send you specific
installation instructions.
Only a limited number of guest log-ins are available for this Special
Invited Talk, so I recommend you get a free player account character
on EMuck before the 30th to make sure you can be there for this chat
with Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor.  To do that, point your web browser
to http://alia.ce.umn.edu/emuck/registration.html (which will change to
http://amberthree.dyn.ml.org/emuck/registration.html in the next few
weeks now that EMuck has moved to a new, more powerful home.
Don't forget, the Special Invited Talk with Wayne "Mickey Mouse" Allwine
and Russi "Minnie Mouse" Taylor is this Friday night.  I will be your
host for the chat using my EMuck character of "Mickey."  Seeya real soon
on EMuck!  8=o)
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Rich Koster, Moderator: FidoNet Disney Echo & FANtasEARS Disney Fan Club
             http://www.calweb.com/~rkoster/           "Mickey" on EMuck
Join me on EntertainMuck for Disney chats at 10 PM CST
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