Birthdays: Eleanor
Roosevelt, Henry Heinz the Ketchup king, Jerome Robbins, Carl Hubbard, Ron Leibman, John Candy, Omar
Shariff is 83, Ben Vereen, Art Blakey, Luke Perry, Joan Cusak, Sig Ruman– the
fat actor with the goatee and the over-the-top German accent in the Marx
Brothers comedies, Ninotchka and Stalag 17
1960- The Bugs Bunny
Show premiered on TV. “Overture, hit the lights! This is it, we’ll hit the
heights, and oh what heights we’ll hit…..etc..”
1967-The NY Times
printed an image of a female nude by Bell Lab artist-in-residence Ken Knowlton.
It was done on a computer as a digital mosaic of thousands of numbers.
It was a
breakthrough image in CGI.
1975- NBC needed a
Saturday replacement for Best Of Carson reruns, so Lorne Michaels’ TV show
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE premiered. Featuring the Not-Yet-Ready-For-Prime-Time
Players: John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner, Garret Morris, Chevy Chase,
Lorraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin and Mike O’Donaghue. First guest
host George Carlin did his opening monologue while stoned.
Albert Brooks did a
short film and Andy Kaufman did his Mighty Mouse lip sync routine.
Paul Shaefer
conducted the music and the show was held in NBC’s Studio 8H, which was built
originally for Maestro Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony of the Air. At the
last moment a sketch by young Billy Crystal was cut from the show. The show
also revived the career of announcer Don Pardo, who had trouble finding work
since the original Jeopardy Show was canceled.
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