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I just wanted to share that there's currently a Tim Burton exhibit at the LACMA between May 29, 2011 and October 31, 2011 (how appropriate). As you probably well know, this collaboration of maestros Tim Burton and Danny Elfman was the principal creative force for The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was actually originally distributed by Touchstone Pictures as opposed to Walt Disney Pictures (this was often the case for for movies considered "too dark" to be directly distributed by Disney).

Here's some additional trivia: did you know that Tim Burton was classmates with Brad Bird, director of the Incredibles (and Iron Giant), and John Lassiter, current Chief Creative Officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios and Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering, at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) located in Valencia, California. CalArts was founded in part due to efforts by Walt Disney and his efforts to train his staff. There are also many Easter eggs in the Pixar films in reference to CalArts.