YESTERDAYS 1995
CLAY characters created by two Cardiff animators will be the stars of the latest Levi 501 jeans commercial.
A Stone Age family with disgusting personal habits will model the jeans in a 60-second ad, which will be on the television screen later this month.
The firm picked Michael Mort and Deiniol Morris of Aaargh! Animation Ltd to direct the advert after seeing their animation Gogs, which they made for S4C. Michael said: “It’s certainly different from anything Levi have done before.” JONATHAN Davies will quit international rugby after leading Wales in the Halifax Rugby League Centenary World Cup in October.
But the Welshman, who returns to this country from Australia early next week, will continue playing for his club Warrington.
Davies’ retirement will bring the curtain down on a 10-year-career as the golden boy of Welsh rugby league and union.
He said: “At 32 I believe the time is right for me to finish with international football and give youth a chance.”
In January 1989 he rocked the sporting world when he turned professional and joined Widnes in a then record £150,000 three-year deal. A PEN picture of a South Wales vet drawn 38 years ago is about to go on sale at Sotheby’s as part of a £120,000 lot.
Beatle John Lennon sketched Pontypridd vet Keith Capron when they lived in the same house in Liverpool in 1957.
The cartoon drawing – called His Beerness Keith (A Welsh) – is among 21 sketches from the hand of the 18-year-old art student. THE voice of Casper the ghost is alive and well and living in Cardiff.
The friendly phantom is currently wooing cinema audiences in one of the summer’s blockbuster films.
But the woman who lent her voice to Casper for the American cartoon series which inspired the film is Joanna Wheeler, of Coeden Dal, Pentwyn, Cardiff.
Joanna, 24, was asked to dub Casper’s voice by the producers of the cartoon in 1991, after the original soundtrack deteriorated.
Joanna was a student at Cardiff’s Welsh College of Music and Drama at the time.
She said: “They had searched America for a voice that matched the actress who did the original, but who was no longer available. TEMPERATURES soared as a row of camels trotted across the parched ground.
It was easy to forget the last rain which plagued St Mellons Show for the previous three years.
It proved too hot even for the Mary Chipperfield racing camels, the show’s main ring attraction.
They were reluctant to break into a canter despite much urging from local showjumpers and point to point riders.
The camels, one of whom had a