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Today is National Nude Day. I would say for the most part, there are very few people who should actually celebrate the holiday in public. Please feel free to celebrate responsibly within the confines of your own home.

July 13, 1974 –Elton John’s eighth studio Caribou went to No.1 on the Billboard Album Chart on this date, It became his third No.1 album. Elton and his band toured the last five months of 1973 before heading into Caribou Ranch studios in Colorado in January 1974 to record their next album in a windowContinue reading “Caribou topped the charts”

July 13, 1985 –40 years ago, I had only recently patented the long birthday weekend…. (I love that WNEW thought that George Segal and Marilyn McCoo were the perfect host for their coverage of Live Aid.) (Find time to watch this short segment of a documentary about behind the scenes events of the Live AidContinue reading “For a brief moment, we were all together”

July 13, 1990 –Jerry Zucker’s romantic thriller Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tony Goldwyn, opened in the US on this date. The role of Oda Mae Brown was not written with Whoopi Goldberg in mind, but Patrick Swayze, an admirer of hers, convinced the producers that she would be right forContinue reading “Ghost premiered”

July 13, 1949 – Paramount Picture’s releases second film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby, starring Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Shelley Winters, and Howard Da Silva, opened in the US on this date. The original director was John Farrow. However, he was replaced with ElliottContinue reading “The Great Gatsby premiered”

July 12, 1984 –Madonna’s Like a Virgin video premiered on MTV on this date and became an instant hit. The songwriting team of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg wrote Like A Virgin. Other songs they have written include Eternal Flame by the Bangles, So Emotional by Whitney Houston, True Colors by Cyndi Lauper, and AloneContinue reading “The video that started a fashion trend”

July 12, 1991 –John Singleton directorial debut, Boyz N the Hood, starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Larry Fishburne, Nia Long, Regina King, and Angela Bassett, went into general release on this date. (John Singleton’s Oscar nomination for Best Director at the age of 24 made him the youngest director to ever receiveContinue reading “Boyz N the Hood opened”

July 12, 1990 – Viewers first met Dr. Joel Fleischman and the folks in Cicely, Alaska when Northern Exposure premiered on CBS TV on this date. The mural for Roslyn’s Café in the opening credits is an actual café. The apostrophe and an S was added in since the show is supposed to take placeContinue reading “We caught our first glimpse of Northern Exposure”

If you missed seeing Manhattanhenge last night, (as unfortunately I did – I’m in an undisclosed location with the mishpachah celebrating.) you could try again tonight at 8:22 pm ET (enjoy it for me.). Those Illuminati are generous, aren’t they? (And hey, pay attention to the traffic lights. Don’t ruin my birthday by getting runContinue reading “Fear not – It’s happening again”