Birthdays: Daniel Webster, A.A. Milne, Joseph Glidden,
Oliver Hardy, Cary Grant- born Archie
Leech, Danny Kaye, Emmanuel Chabrier, Bobby Goldsboro, Pierre Roget (Roget’s
Thesaurus), Ray Dolby (Dolby sound), John Boorman, Kevin Costner is 59, Jason
Segel is 34
1919- American Society of
Cinematographers formed (ASC).
1949- Look Magazine published a
photo essay called "Prizefighter". The photographer was a young kid
from the Bronx named Stanley Kubrick.
Mr Kubrick said he now wanted to
try filmmaking.
1953-The Hollywood Animation Guild
chartered. Originally the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Local 839,
signatories included Disney legends Milt Kahl, Les Clark, John Hench and Ken
Anderson.
1962- THE FRENCH CONNECTION- NYPD
cracked a drug ring smuggling heroin from South East Asia into New York via
Marseilles. The French Connection bust nabbed $3.5 million in dope and made heroes
out of the two detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grazzo. Egan joked to Grazzo:" I’ll betchya Paul Newman will play
me and Ben Gazzarra you!" Actually Gene Hackman played Egan and Roy
Scheider Grazzo in the Oscar winning 1971 film. Both cops retired from the
force to make careers in show biz. Ironically while the film was being made the
real heroin from the case disappeared from the NYPD evidence lockup and was
replaced with bags of corn starch. It was never recovered.
1977- The cult documentary PUMPING
IRON premiered. Filmmakers George Butler and Rob Fiore maxed out his American
Express card to the tune of $35,000 to bring this look at the little known
world of professional body building to the screen. The film first brought to
the public a charmingly confident Austrian body builder named Arnold
Schwarzenegger who wanted to try acting someday. Also Lou Ferrigno who would
also star in movies and as the TV Hulk. Many year later Arnold Schwarzenegger
tried to buy the rights to the film so he could edit out the scenes of him
puffin’ some ganja.
1987- National Public Radio’s
Weekend Edition premiered.
1990- Rusty Hamer, who played
Danny Thomas’ son in the TV show Make Room for Daddy, put a 357 Magnum to his
head and pulled the trigger. He was 42.
No comments:
Post a Comment