Birthdays: Ernest Hemingway, Issac Stern,
Marshal McCluhan, Norman Jewison is 88, Don Knotts, Janet Reno, Gary Trudeau
the creator of Doonesbury, Ernst Shuftan- inventor of the "Shuftan
Effect", a cheap way of combining actors with miniatures by shooting through
mirrors. All those "Lost World" Cesar Romero fighting the giant
Iguanas were done that way. Edward Herman, Robin Williams, Josh Harnett
Happy National Zippo Lighter
Day. Smoking is bad but Zippos are cool-
another one of life’s mysteries.
1954- The Fellowship of the Ring,
first book of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings, first published. C.S.
Lewis said the book “came forth like thunder on a summers day..”
1959- Judge Frederick van
Pelt-Bryan ruled that Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence was not
pornography and therefore could be sent through the postal system.
1971, The New York Times
ran an article about Taki 183 on the front page of its inside section, titled "Taki
183" Spawns Pen Pals. Taki
was the first graffiti tag artist. Taki was a nickname of a man named Demetrius
from 183 St. In the late 1960s-1970s his
tag seemed to be everywhere.
1980- SAG went on strike for
actor's residuals from videocassette and cable TV sales.
The
actors hit the bricks twice more, in 1988 and 2000.
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