Birthdays: Sam Houston, Alexander Graham Bell, Kurt Weill,
Desi Arnaz ( Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III ), Ted Geisel aka Dr.Suess,
Mikhail Gorbachov, Willis O'Brian, Moe Berg, Karen Carpenter, Lou Reed,
Jennifer Jones, John Cullum is 85, John Irving, Tom Wolfe, Jon Bon Jovi is 53,
Daniel Craig is 47, Stephen Chiodo
1933- Movie "KING KONG" premiered at the new Radio
City Music Hall in New York and the Roxy. Twas Beauty killed the Beast.
1961- Pablo Picasso married his second wife Jacqueline. He
was 80, she was 35. Jacqueline cared for the increasingly reclusive artist and
kept even his family at a distance. When Picasso died in 1973 she turned away
many family members from the funeral. Jacqueline committed suicide in 1986.
1965- FIFTY YEARS AGO- The movie The Sound of Music opened
at the Rivoli theater.
1971- Charles Engelhard died, a venture capitalist whose
wild investments and grand lifestyle made him the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s
villain Auric Goldfinger.
1973- The Women in Film organization founded.
1976- Francis Ford Coppola began shooting his epic film“
Apocalypse Now” in the Philippines. The film was plagued by cost overruns, a
typhoon and his Philippine Army helicopters frequently flying off to fight real
guerrillas in the middle of shooting, but somehow it all got done.
1982- Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick died of a stroke
in Santa Ana California. The author of stories the movies Blade Runner,
Minority Report and Total Recall were based. Dick said he was at times
possessed by a superalien who appeared in his mind in a beam of pink light. His
autobiography was titled “ I am alive and you are dead.”
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