August 1, 1992 –Pearl Jam’s hit Jeremy makes its debut on MTV on this date. At the end of the video, we see Jeremy walk, shirtless, into his classroom, throw an apple to the teacher, and make a gesture as if pulling something from his pocket. We later see his classmates shocked and sprayed withContinue reading “At home drawing pictures of mountain tops”
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Señorella and the Glass Huarache premiered
July 25 1964 – The Looney Tunes short, Señorella and the Glass Huarache, directed by Hawley Pratt, was released on this date. This was the last cartoon released by the original Warner Bros. studio. The studio would re-open in 1964 for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and again in 1967 for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
The Ducktators premiered
July 25 1943 –The Looney Tunes short, The Ducktators, directed by Norman McCabe, and starring Daffy Duck, was released on this date. The cartoon is selmon aired because it has outdated World War II references and offensive racial stereotypes that are difficult to edit out of the cartoon
Porky the Rain-Maker premiered
July 25 1936 – The Looney Tunes short, Porky the Rain-Maker, directed by Tex Avery, and starring Pork Pig, was released on this date. The cartoon Sioux Me would be released three years later with the same story premise. Directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton, it features a Native American main cast and noContinue reading “Porky the Rain-Maker premiered”
It’s the Sonny and Cher Show for the first time
August 1, 1971 –The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour debuted on CBS television as a summer replacement show, on this date. And Cher will outlive us all.
The border between summer and autumn
The festival of Lammas marks the beginning of the harvest, when people go to church to give thanks for the first grain to be cut. This is the long way of saying that it’s August again. How did a single month become so important? Like almost everything else that’s difficult to understand, the history ofContinue reading “The border between summer and autumn”
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter premiered
July 31, 1968 –The film adaptation of the 1940 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, directed by Robert Ellis Miller, and starring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke (in her film debut), Cicely Tyson, and Stacy Keach, was released on this date. Montgomery Clift was approached to play SingerContinue reading “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter premiered”
The 39 Steps premiered
July 31, 1935 –The British spy thriller, The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Robert Donat, and Madeleine Carroll, was released on this date. Alfred Hitchcock regarded this as one of his favorite movies. Before filming the scene where Hannay (Robert Donat) and Pamela (Madeleine Carroll) run through the countryside, Alfred Hitchcock handcuffedContinue reading “The 39 Steps premiered”
The War of the Gargantuas premiered
July 31, 1966 –The cult classic movie, The War of the Gargantuas (AKA ,Furankenshutain no Kaiju: Sanda tai Gaira) directed by Ishiro Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, and starring Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara, Yû Sekida and Haruo Nakajima, was release on this date, in Japan. Haruo Nakajima, the man who playedContinue reading “The War of the Gargantuas premiered”
Climbing every mountain
It was on this day in 1954 that human feet first stood upon the summit of Pakistan’s K2, the second-tallest mountain in the world. K2 was known to the Chinese as the “Great Mountain,” and to Indian and Pakistani locals as “That Big Thing Over There.” It wasn’t until 1856, when T.G. Montgomerie of Britain’sContinue reading “Climbing every mountain”
