Birthdays:
Daniel Webster, A.A. Milne, Joseph Glidden, Oliver Hardy, Cary Grant- born Archibald Leech, Danny Kaye, Emmanuel Chabrier,
Bobby Goldsboro, Pierre Roget (Roget’s Thesaurus), Ray Dolby (Dolby sound),
John Boorman, Kevin Costner is 62, Jason Segel is 37
1908- Frederic Delius orchestral tone poem Brigg Fair premiered.
1919- American Society of Cinematographers formed (ASC).
1943- As part of the war effort the US government ordered the sale
of sliced bread be stopped for the duration. The phrase “ the greatest thing
since sliced bread” entered the slang vocabulary.
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.
1952-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.
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 bodybuilding
to the screen. The film first brought to the public a charmingly confident
Austrian body builder named Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said he wanted to try
acting someday. Also Lou Ferrigno who would also star in movies and as the TV
Hulk. Many years later as a Republican icon, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried
to buy the rights to the film so he could edit out the scenes of him smoking a
joint.
1978- In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, rock star Frank
Zappa described most rock journalism as "
People who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who
can’t read."
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.
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