Monday, November 22, 2010

Triptych Olympics #5

I Heard MGM Went Under, 1842. 9m x 70mm. Celluloid, diploma, glue.

From Wikipedia:
Gregory, the original lion used in MGM's signature logo and company credit sequence, spent his final years in the spacious and well-kept pastures of the Green Bay Lion Safari. After siring eleven cubs (one of which, Haley, went on to star alongside Robert Duvall and Michael Caine in Secondhand Lions) with a variety of lionesses in his ballooning GBLS pride, Gregory retired to a large slate rock imported from his familiar Serengeti haunt in southwestern Kenya. He died in 1990, at the age of six, from complications caused by acute renal failure.

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