Birthdays: Danton, Leon Trotsky,
Vladimir “Bill” Tytla - Disney animator who gave life to Dumbo, Grumpy and the
Devil from Bald Mountain, Francois Mitterand, Domenico Scarlatti, Charles W.
Post of Post Cereals, Bob Hoskins, The last Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlevi,
Mahalia Jackson, Clive Barker, Bootsie Collins, Marla Maples, Dylan
McDermott, Cary Elwes, Jaclyn Smith, Hilary Rodham Clinton, Seth McFarlane, and
Pat Sito!
1947-HOLLYWOOD FIGHTS BACK.-
Members of Hollywood's progressive elite tried to answer the McCarthy hearings
and the blacklist with a nationwide radio broadcast "Hollywood Fights
Back' -Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Judy Garland, Katharine
Hepburn, Danny Kaye, John Huston, Gene Kelly and Edward G. Robinson.
The event was a public relations fiasco. Nobel
laureate Thomas Mann used his air time to launch into a longwinded intellectual
defense of Communism. When word reached them that some of the Hollywood writers
they were defending really were communists Bogart and Bacall felt they had been
hoodwinked. "As politicians we
stink!" quote Bogie.
1952- David Wolper’s documentary
Victory at Sea, with it’s majestic score by Richard Rogers first premiered.
1955- The Greenwich Village Voice,
later called simply The Voice, first published.
1970- Doonesbury born. Yale law
graduate Gary Trudeau was convinced by Jim Andrews his classmate now an editor
at Universal Press syndicate, to recreate his funny comic he did in the campus
newspaper. It's original name was 'Bull Tales".
1984-" I’LL BE BACK…"
James Cameron’s sci-fi thriller THE TERMINATOR first released. Arnold
Schwarzenegger was considered a Hollywood joke before this film made him a
major star. An interesting what-if, was
that before Arnold was cast in the role of the cyborg assassin, the producers
were first considering O.J. Simpson.
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