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September 2, 1950The Merrie Melodies short The Ducksters, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, was released on this date. I believe this is one of my favorite non Bug Bunny Looney Tunes , On the game show Porky Pig wins: 1. The Rocky Mountains2. A 17 – Jewel half Nelson3.Continue reading “Hey, watch your language, bud. We’re on the air.”

September 2, 1993 –Neil Young and Pearl Jam performed Young’s song Rockin’ In The Free World at the MTV Video Music Awards on this date. Pearl Jam have performed this song from time to time with Young, who is their musical mentor. The first time they performed it together was at the 1993 MTV VideoContinue reading “There’s colors on the street”

September 1, 1948 – Paramount released the Anatole Litvak noir classic, Sorry Wrong Number, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, on this date. Barbara Stanwyck found that sustaining that level of emotion all week long and then going home on the weekend was a draining experience. “Five days I was handling it, starting the nextContinue reading “Sorry Wrong Number premiered”

September is the ninth month of the year, which is why its name is derived from the Latin Septem, meaning seven. (We have previously addressed this problem last month; see August, the Sixth Month.) On the French Revolutionary calendar, September is known as Vendémiaire (vintage,) and in Dutch, September is “the begining of autumn“, Hertmaand.Continue reading “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

September 1, 1957 – The British sci-fi film Quatermass 2 (AKA Enemy From Space), directed by Val Guest and starring Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day, and William Franklyn, was release in the US on this date. In between takes Brian Donlevy’s toupée was accidentally blown off by the aeroplane engineContinue reading “Quatermass 2 premiered”

September 1, 1937 –After it’s disasterous initial release in March of 1937, Columbia Pictures cut over 25 minutes of Frank Capra’s adventure film Lost Horizon, starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo, Isabel Jewell, and Sam Jaffe was re-released on this date. UCLA tried to reconstruct the film, usingContinue reading “Lost Horizon premiered”

September 1, 1956 – The Merrie Melodies short, The Slap-Hoppy Mouse, directed by Bob McKimson, and starring Sylverster the Cat and Hippety Hopper, was released on this date. The sign in front of the dilapidated house reads Tralfaz Property. That name would be given to the Jetson’s dog in the first series episodes before heContinue reading “The Slap-Hoppy Mouse premiered”

September 1, 1962 – The Merrie Melodies short, Honey’s Money, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Yosemite Sam, was released on this date. One of the few instances where Yosemite Sam is not paired with Bugs Bunny.

September 1, 1983 – Island Records released the eighth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones, on this date. Swordfishtrombones moves away from conventional piano-based songwriting towards unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract and experimental rock approach.

August 29, 1957 –The Looney Tunes short, Bugsy and Mugsy, directed by Friz Freleng and starring Bugs Bunny and Sylvester the Cat, was released on this date. Rocky’s eyes are shown briefly a few times. He usually has his trademark hat pulled down over his brow..