May 14, 1989 – Moonlighting, one of the better “boy/girl detective show” aired it’s last episode on ABC on this date. Even after the series had long since ‘jumped the shark‘, Bruce Willis‘ toup was a thing to behold.
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The finale of Family Ties
May 14, 1989 – We say goodby to the Keaton family when NBC TV aired the last episode of Family Ties, Alex doesn’t Live Here Anymore on this date. The show was a long-time staple of NBC’s “Must See TV” Thursday night line-up. After season five, the show moved from Thursday night following The CosbyContinue reading “The finale of Family Ties”
It was Sinatra’s World no more
May 14, 1998 –May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. Francis Albert Sinatra, Ole’ Blue Eyes, died on this date. Chairman of the Board may have summed up his career when he said, ”What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live itContinue reading “It was Sinatra’s World no more”
Mrs. Dalloway is published
May 14, 1925 – A middle-aged society matron goes shopping for flowers for her party and World War I veteran, suffering PTSD, decides to commit suicide rather than be institutionalized, all on the same afternoon. Much internal contemplation ensues. Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dalloway was published on this date. The novel is considered one ofContinue reading “Mrs. Dalloway is published”
Would dancing like a Rhode Island Red be acceptable?
Today is National Chicken Dance Day – Although I’m sure that Werner Thomas, the creator of the original Chicken Dance music ( Der Ententanz (The Duck Dance)) never had Beyoncé’s dancing in mind
Let It Be premiered
May 13, 1970 –The Beatles‘ final movie, Let It Be, received its U.S. opening, in New York City theaters on this date. John Lennon believed that Michael Lindsay-Hogg deliberately avoided including shots of him and Yoko Ono in favor of more shots of Paul McCartney. Lennon said he felt that “the camera work was setContinue reading “Let It Be premiered”
If I Can’t Have You topped the charts
May 13, 1978 –Yvonne Elliman’s single If I Can’t Have You (written by The Bee Gees,) went to No.1 on the Billboard Charts, replacing the song, Night Fever, another song written by The Bee Gees and also featured on The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The huge success of this song resulted in Elliman being rememberedContinue reading “If I Can’t Have You topped the charts”
Carson makes his final TV appearance
May 13, 1994 –Nearly two years to the day after his farewell, Johnny Carson made a surprise cameo on the Late Show With David Letterman, which turned out to be his last-ever TV appearance before his death in January 2005, on this date. Just before Carson’s death in 2005, CBS executive Peter Lassally, who hadContinue reading “Carson makes his final TV appearance”
That which we are, we are … (The Frasier finale)
May 13, 2004 –The last episode of Frasier aired on TV following an 11-year run on NBC-TV on this date. The series holds the record for the most Emmy wins for a TV series of any kind (comedy or drama) with 37 wins.
The little remembered Mother’s Day Massacre
May 13, 1973 –Tennis players Bobby Riggs and Margaret Court played in a $100,000 winner-take-all challenge match, on this date. The match has become known as the first Battle of the Sexes (also known as the Mother’s Day Massacre.) Margaret Court, the 1970 the singles Grand Slam champion, underestimated the 55 year old Bobby RiggsContinue reading “The little remembered Mother’s Day Massacre”
