Birthdays: Roman Emperor
Constantius Chlorus (the Pale), Rene' Descartes, Franz Josef Haydn, Serge
Diagheliev, Harald von
Braunhut 1926- the inventor of Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Specs, Richard
Chamberlain, Cesar Chavez, Herb Alpert, Gordie Howe, Liz Claiborne, Gabe
Kaplan, Rhea Perlman, Shirley Jones is 82, Richard Kiley, Volker Schlondorf,
William Daniels, Lucille Bliss the voice of Crusader Rabbit, Christopher Walken
is 73, Colin Farrell is 38, Ewan McGregor is 45, Al Gore is 68, Ed Catmull is
71.
1836- Charles Dickens first work published "The
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club."
1930 -Reacting to charges that the movies had become too
naughty, Hollywood producers accept the MOTION PICTURE CODE. It was regulated
by Will Hays, former Republican Party Chairman. The regulation wouldn't really
start to have strength until 1935-36 when pressure groups like the Catholic
League of Decency went after Mae West and the Tarzan pictures.
The Hays Code forbade open sex and obscenity:
- twin beds only in
a bedroom, nightclothes buttoned to the neck.
-if a couple were
seated together on a bed they must have at least one foot touching the floor,
-"kisses with a
duration of no longer than 3 seconds, parting with lips closed."
Lots of jokes were
spawned like: "Give him the bird!" "If the Hays Commission would
let me, I'd give him the bird!" One other little known clause was the
forbidding of members of different races from kissing on camera. So Anna Mae
Wong, the greatest Chinese actress of her time, could not play a Chinese
heroine if her co-star was a Caucasian made up to look Asian.
1943- Rodger & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!"
debuts. Despite the opinion of producer
Mike Todd -"No legs, No Laughs, No Chance", the musical becomes one
of the great hits of American musical Theater.
1962- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened on
Wilshire Blvd. No, it didn’t display customized surfboards or the ideal tuna
melt with sprouts, but an exhibit of paintings by Bonnard.
1973- Comic strip hero Smilin' Jack gets married, the strip
concludes next day.
1991- Former child star Danny Bonaduce arrested for a fist
fight with a transvestite prostitute.
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