Tribute to Art Linkletter

This Saturday, Disney historian Don Peri will host our Tribute to Art Linkletter with Art's daughter, Sharon.  We asked him to tell us a bit about what he learned while researching Art's life:

While reading and re-reading several books by Art Linkletter in preparation for A Tribute to Art Linkletter, I was amazed at how many connections he had to San Francisco.  I knew that he had success in radio here before going on to fame and fortune in Hollywood with his very popular People Are Funny and House Party radio and television programs, and that he first met Walt Disney in San Francisco, but I also learned that some of his children were born here, and that he had even been indicted by the grand jury in San Francisco!  More about that on December 11th!

Through my research, I was impressed by Art's unflagging optimism and ability to reinvent himself in good times and in bad.  Like Walt Disney, Art was determined to succeed in whatever direction life took him, and the old song lyrics could have been quotes from either man in how they dealt with life's challenges: "I pick myself up, dust myself off, [and] start all over again," or as Art liked to quote UCLA coaching legend, John Wooden, "Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." 

Join us this Saturday, December 11th, for our Tribute to Art Linkletter.

3:00 p.m. in our Theater

Tickets are available at www.waltdisney.org