"Official website of Original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer Lonnie Burr, Actor and Author of The Accidental Mouseketeer and Two For The Show: Great 20th Century Comedy Teams."

MOUSEKETEER LONNIE'S
CLUBHOUSE

2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Disneyana Legends Award Luncheon!

As you may have read in my memoir, I was not as fond of wearing my EARS as the other Mice, so as an adult I can wear a baseball cap with Mickey Mouse Club logo and all is swell!

I was honored to receive my Disney Legend Award from the Disneyana Fan Club at their July 18 Awards Luncheon near Disneyland.

Before I was interviewed during the Luncheon, they screened my audition DVD (known in pre-digital days as a "demo reel".)

HOLD YOUR PRIVATE SCREENING NOW!

JUST CLICK BELOW:

12 DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN 6 MINUTES.

This award looks like an award - - instead of a nude, gold man.

I prefer this one.

Thanks to everyone involved with DisneyanaMania 2014: the officers and volunteers, the great and loyal fans who attended the Legends Luncheon and stayed afterwards to talk, as well as those who purchased The Accidental Mouseketeer, videotapes and autographed photos.

The Awards Luncheon was made even more special by being with fellow honoree, Disney Legend Floyd Norman (below) who began his Disney career at age 19 and was the first black cartoonist/animator hired by Walt.

Right to left: My "Legends interview" with Chair Allan Halcrow; accepting the award; a moment in time with Floyd and DFC's Scarlett Stahl, also a regular columnist for Mice Chat. Scarlett Stahl's photos reprinted by permission from Mice Chat.com.

READ and/or LISTEN!!

DAN CUNNINGHAM'S interview with me -- posted in written form -- is unique He added a number of graphics and other information that makes this piece very enjoyable for every MMC fan!

Blogger Dan Cunningham

Also, I enjoyed a convivial conversation with blogger and Disneyphile JASON PEVERETT in Florida.
Check out The Peverett Phile, August 29 edition.

Call to action -- help a really good rumor become a really happy reality!

Wouldn't YOU like to see the eight remaining ORIGINAL Mouseketeers

(Lonnie, Cubby, Tommy, Bobby, Karen, Sharon, Doreen, Darlene)

WHO LASTED THE ENTIRE FILMING OF OUR SERIES

Honored as Disney Legends at D23 in 2015? The 60th anniversary of the original Mickey Mouse Club!

Thanks to Stu Shostak for first posting the details; check them out below.

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Here's the latest from a summer 2014 Scarlett Stahl column for Mice Chat:

"Please note: 2015 will be the 60th Anniversary of the Mickey Mouse Club. The Walt Disney Company has their Disney Legend Award Ceremony during D23. It is rumored that the Mouseketeers will be honored as Legends at the event with their autographs and handprints to be cast in bronze and placed at the Walt Disney Studios Disney Legend Plaza. I certainly hope this rumor pans out to be true. . . . don’t you?!"

YES, Scarlett, we DO give a mouseka-darn!!

At the end of DAN Cunningham's interview (link above) about my updated memoir, THE ACCIDENTAL MOUSEKETEER learn how YOU can join in nominating the remaining eight original Mouseketeers.

Thanks to Stu Shostak for our 2.5 hour live radio interview (show 357) AND for posting the info below:

"Also, don't forget to BUG the D23 people about making the [eight living] original Mouseketeers Disney Legends at their 2015 gathering - e-mail. . . them at GuestRelations@D23.com or call them toll-free at (855) 323-5973. Lonnie and the others deserve to be made legends! "

"Also, very special thanks to Lonnie, who, as one of the original nine, including the late Annette, has the power to make YOURS TRULY an honorary Mouseketeer - and he did just that on the show. TRULY HONORED doesn't begin to describe my feelings to now be a small part of that legacy. Thanks, Lonnie!"

Thanks, Stu, for what you are doing on behalf of the Original Mouseketeers!

MY RECENTLY PUBLISHED, UPDATED MEMOIR

It is now available on Kindle for $4.99 and from me in paper, personally signed to you and shipped (US only) for $23.

I have written an entire NEW chapter and updated the book to 2014.

Visit the publisher's web page:

http://themeparkpress.com/accidental-mouseketeer/

for Kindle or for unsigned copy at $17.99 and shipping

In 2015

my definitive book on team comedy will be updated from 2000 to 2014 under the new title

Great Comedy Teams: 1898 - 2015

and will also be available as a Kindle ebook or in print from my new publisher,
Theme Park Press

Hi, welcome to my Clubhouse
on the web
from 2000 to 2015!

Stay awhile.

Look for something NEW
every now and again.

Browse, remember,
say hello
to some old friends.

Be sure to check out Roll Call,
maybe write a note
or ask a question.

Or email me directly at

lonniemmc at aoldotcom

Remember . . .

Every day is Anything Can Happen Day . . .
if you work on it!

1957

MOUSEKA-James Dean

At age 13 in my 'cycle jacket,

levis & 'cycle boots
- only allowed at

Hollywood Professional School

on rain days -
but I was always ready!

No license, no 'cycle
but I WAS READY!!!

To view my tribute to Annette, with

additional photos, plus the

invitation and program for the

private remembrance of her life,

please visit

Remembering Annette

Thanks to Dave Mason, Saturday's Toys, for sharing this artwork from MY107.

Some Things to Check Out

LAST CHANCE - ONLY A FEW LEFT of the first edition of my memoir, available only here with a personal autograph. Details at:
SPECIAL OFFERS AND CONTACT INFO

While you're browsing, leave time for cartoons - now 70+ of them; the Mousekartoon link is on
Anything Can Happen Page .

Also, Now and Again - Writings by Lonnie Burr, a glimpse into a separate area of my life and work.

My involvement with museums and libraries around the country is at

My Gifts to Museums and Libraries

or on the Anything Can Happen Page .

And, of course, other never seen before photos and items here and there.

HANGING WITH SOME FRIENDS

Two Mouseketeers* enjoying "100 Years of Magic" at WDW.

*The late Roy Disney, Jr. who may have lost his EARS off of his world class sailboat.

CHIP and I are sad that DALE is missing.

EARS WOULD NOT FIT PROPERLY FOR EITHER OF US.

and speaking of memoirs and memories. . .

For your memorabilia searches, check out Dave Mason's SATURDAYS TOYS. Dave is a great guy with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Disney. He has several pieces of my personal memorabilia for sale. He also has lots of other swell Disney, Disneyland, WDW and other items -
want a check signed by Lucy? [For the young, that would be the hilarious Lucille Ball.]

www.SaturdaysToys.com

Wannabee baseball players

Shea Stadium 1983 . . .

[I am not a mouseka-knucklehead but I am preparing for my knuckle ball.]

Mouseka-wannabees. . .
and why they weren't cast!

ears too pointy - fake eyebrows

no place for ears - tasteless nouveau riche gems

naughty hips - among other things

orphan annie eyes - and other things- crossed the wrong way

beard violates disney policy - hands in pockets suspect

chops cherry trees and owns slaves!

never smiles. mass-murderer

a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN PAGE MY SCRAPBOOK BEFORE &
AFTER MMC MY LIFE AS
A MOUSE SPECIAL OFFERS AND
CONTACT INFO ROLL CALL