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Autumn begins at 8:43 a.m. EDT today. Joyfully, it’s also the first day of Fall. Many people in the northern hemisphere are disturbed by the changes they see around them at about this time each year. It gets darker earlier, temperatures drop, leaves change color and die and the Red Sox tend to drop outContinue reading “Getting crisp in the fall.”

September 21 1985 –The Dire Straits single, Money for Nothing, from the album Brothers in Arms, hits No. 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. The innovative video was one of the first to feature computer generated animation, which was done using an early program called Paintbox. The characters were supposed to have moreContinue reading “Money for Nothing topped the charts”

September 21, 1897 –The New York Sun ran its famous editorial that answered a question from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon: “Is there a Santa Claus?“on this date. Obviously, times were different back then given that The New York Sun was printing an editorial about Christmas in September.

January 21, 1970 –Nanny and the Professor, starring Juliet Mills, Richard Long, David Doremus, Trent Lehman, and Kim Richards, first aired on ABC TV, on this date. This is one of the situation comedies to go into syndication with a total of less than five seasons. The original run consisted of only two half seasonsContinue reading “Phoebe Figalilly truly is a silly name”

September 21, 1968 –Based on the 1947 film of the same name, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir,  starring Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Reta Shaw, first aired on this date. The series premiered on NBC on Saturday night at 8:30 PM EST. NBC canceled it after the first season, and it wasContinue reading “The Ghost & Mrs. Muir premiered”

In the key that our souls were singin’ According to Maurice White, he got the idea for this song in an unlikely place: a hotel room in Washington DC while there was some kind of protest going on below. Said White, “There’s all these cats screaming and throwing things and going crazy and this tuneContinue reading “Our hearts were ringin’”

September 20, 1946 – The first Cannes film festival, the first great international cultural event of the post-war period, begins on this date. Among the selections that year were:The Seventh Veil directed by Compton Bennett Wet Paint directed by Jack King, produced by Walt Disney The Bandit (Il bandito) directed by Alberto Lattuada Beauty andContinue reading “The first time they all gathered on the Golden Croissant”

September 20, 1984 –Tony Micelli first started taking care of Angela Bower’s household when Who’s the Boss premiered on ABC-TV on this date. This was Judith Light’s only foray into comedy; every other project has been a drama. She has said in interviews that while she tutored Tony Danza in dramatic acting he helping getContinue reading “Tony and Angela first met”

September 20, 1941 –The Looney Tunes cartoon Notes To You, directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Porky Pig and a proto-type of Sylvester the Cat debuted on this date. Porky’s home has the very latest cabinet radio. In the days before television, radio was the at home entertainment for Americans, and most of the songsContinue reading “Notes To You premiered”

September 20, 1973 –tennis star Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, at the Houston Astrodome. In recent years, a persistent urban legend has arisen (again,) that Bobby Riggs had thrown the tennis match against Billie Jean King, to pay off a purported $100,000 gambling debt he owed to theContinue reading “The famous so-called ‘Battle of the Sexes’”