B-Days: English King Henry II Plantagenet,
Joachim Murat, Gudson Borglum, David Lean, Gloria Steinem is 80, Mary
Flannery-O’Connor, Arturo Toscanini, Aretha Franklin, Bela Bartok', Howard
Cosell, Bonnie Bedelia, Anita Bryant, Simone Signoret, Elton John is 66, Sarah
Jessica Parker is 49.
1932- First Motion Picture Academy
President William DeMille, the brother of Cecil B., started a 'Squawk
Forum", inviting film industry workers to air their grievances with their
studio heads. (and this way they won't ask to unionize ). The first boss on the
hot seat was MGM's Louis B. Mayer. He was greeted with boos, insults and
catcalls, mostly from his writers. The forum quickly devolved into a shouting,
screaming free for all. Mayer furiously stormed out and preceded to fire all
those Metro employees he could remember were there. The Squawk Forum idea was
abandoned.
1933- Nazis Minister of Propaganda Josef
Goebbels offered famed director Fritz Lang a job. Fritz said he’d think about
it, then immediately packed his bag for Hollywood.
1954- RCA began mass production and
marketing of color television sets. At the time the set cost as much as an
automobile -$1,000, 12 inch screen and
there was very little programming in color.
1955- US Customs seize a shipment of 258
copies Alan Ginsburg’s poem Howl printed in the UK on the grounds it was
obscene." I saw some of the finest minds of my generation destroyed by
madness." Next year when Lawrence Ferlinghetti of San Francisco’s City
Lights Bookstore printed the poem he was arrested.
1966 - Beatles pose with mutilated dolls
& butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today"
album, It was later pulled.
1967 -The Who & Cream make their US
debut at Murray the K's Easter Show.
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their
week-long "love-in" for peace in the bed of Room 902 of the Hilton
Hotel, Amsterdam.
1996- John Lasseter gets a special oscar for creating Toy Story.
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