Fun Find Friday
December 16, 2011
Location: Hollywood Boulevard, Disney's Hollywood
Studios
In 1989 Disney-MGM Studios
opened up as the third theme park on Walt
Disney World Resort property. At the very
end of the parks Main Street, known as
Hollywood Boulevard sat (no, not a hat) a
reproduction of Grauman's Chinese Theater!

To make the opening of the park unique, Disney
invited several celebrities to place their handprints in cement that
would be permanently displayed in front of the theater (much like
the actual theater in Hollywood). Throughout the years, several
celebrities from Mickey Mouse to Robin Williams to Hulk Hogan to
Charlton Heston.
Amazingly enough, there are a few spelling mistakes
found in the different handprints throughout the area, but only one
of these spelling mistakes consists of someone misspelling their own
name! So what's the story behind it?
On December 7, 1995 Charlton Heston, who was famous
for films like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur or for us huge
Disney fans, the narrator in Hercules, came to Disney-MGM Studios to
leave his mark in front of The Great Movie Ride. Just after entering
his name in the cement he began to sign his name. In the middle of
the signing, however, a photographer shouted to Mr. Heston to smile
for the camera. He looked up, smiled for the camera, and went back
to writing his name. When he went back to writing his name, however,
he missed the "L" in Charlton which in turn gave him the honor of
being the only celebrity at Disney's Hollywood Studios to ever
misspell their own name in cement!

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