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April 23, 1958 – Orson Welles’ noir thriller Touch of Evil, starring Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, was released on this date. Orson Welles said that this was the most fun he’d ever had filming a picture, unlike most of his Hollywood films, because he wasn’t troubled by studio interference (until after he completed theContinue reading “Your future is all used up”

April 23, 1971 –The Rolling Stones, released their 9th British (and 11th American) studio album, Sticky Fingers on their brand new label, Rolling Stones Records, on this date. The album cover was designed by Andy Warhol. It was a close-up photo of a man wearing tight jeans, and contained a real zipper. (It was rumoredContinue reading “Yeah, gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields …”

On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Happy Earth Day! Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, rawContinue reading “We are on Earth to take care of life.”

April 22, 1942 –One of Hitchcock’s brilliant World War II efforts (and with his first all-American cast), Saboteur, opened in Washington D.C. on this date. The shot of the ship on its side toward the end was an actual shot of the ocean liner S.S. Normandie, which had caught fire and capsized at its pierContinue reading “Saboteur premiered”

April 22, 1974 – Maude and Walter finally leave Tuckahoe, New York and moves to Washington D.C. when she was elected as a congresswoman during the last episode of Maude, Maude’s Big Move, aired on CBS TV on this date. The producers of Maude liked the idea of a show centered around a new CongressionalContinue reading “Maude was there once last time”

April 22, 1978 –The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) make their debut on Saturday Night Live, on this date, later becoming the first characters from the show to get their own movie. Steve Martin performs King Tut on the same Saturday Night Live episode, popularizing goofy Egyptian dancing. The song, which portrays theContinue reading “A big night on SNL”

April 21, 1982 – The DJs at WKRP spun their last platter when the final episode of the original WKRP in Cincinnati series, Up and Down the Dial aired on CBS TV on this date. The show was famous for playing music of up-and-coming bands. Many artists have said that their music being on theContinue reading “The finale of WKRP in Cincinnati”

April 21, 1974 –The music and comedy special starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, with Carl Reiner, Julie and Dick In Covent Garden, first aired on ABC-TV on this date. The program was directed by Blake Edwards, (Julie Andrews’ husband). Edwards also directed Andrews in The Tamarind Seed that year.

April 21, 1975 –Teenagers everywhere have themselves a good cry when Eric Carmen’s song, (a mash-up of his own song, Let’s Pretend and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18,) All By Myself entered the charts on this date. When he wrote this, Carmen thought the Rachmaninoff music was in theContinue reading “All by Myself went on sale”