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April 19, 1935 – James Whale’s brilliant sequel to Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, and Oliver Peters Heggie, opened in the U.S. on this date. Boris Karloff protested against the decision to make The Monster speak, but was overruled. Since he was required to speak inContinue reading “The Bride of Frankenstein premiered”

April 19, 1987 – The short-lived but critically acclaimed series, Duet, starring Mary Page Keller, Matthew Laurance, Allison La Placa, and Chris Lemmon, debuted on the Fox Network, on this date. The series was part of the original Sunday prime time line up for the network that launched in April 1987. Alison La Placa wasContinue reading “Duet premiered”

April 19, 1987 –The Simpsons make their television debut in the short Good Night – a segment for The Tracey Ullman Show. (I had to hang around the murky world of the internet underground to get this blurry copy of the clip. I’d like to show you a better version of the clip but theContinue reading “I wonder whatever happened to The Simpsons”

Today commemorates the first recorded ‘on purpose‘ LSD trip taken by Albert Hofmann, on this date in 1943, (Hoffman ‘accidentially‘ dosed himself three days previously.) If you are going to celebrate the holiday, remember to titrate your trip correctly.

Today is Velociraptor Awareness Day. Velociraptors are small vicious dinosaurs that usually ruin everyone’s day at your local millionaire’s amusement park. Remember large windows and doorways are Velociraptor points of entries. Mark them accordingly and avoid at all cost. Once you’ve finished locating possible velociraptor entry points within your building, you can mark those areasContinue reading “How you celebrate is between you and your maker”

April 18th, 1923 –On the first day of the new baseball season, the gates of Yankee Stadium were opened and 74,200 people flooded through turnstiles, while another 25,000 were turned away – an amazing number, given that previous attendance record for a single game was 42,000 for the 1916 World Series in Boston. In anContinue reading “Ruth moved into his new house”

April 18, 1971 –The first solo television special of Diana Ross, Diana!, premiered on ABC TV on this date. The special also featured appearances by Danny Thomas and Bill Cosby, plus performances byThe Jackson 5, and also included Jackson 5 lead singer Michael Jackson’s solo debut.

April 18, 2008 –Universal’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, starring Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, and Bill Hader, opened in the US on this date. The film is based on script-writer Jason Segel’s experience breaking up with Linda Cardellini, as well as three other breakups with unspecified women. Segel has said thatContinue reading “Forgetting Sarah Marshall premiered”

April 18, 1975 –John Lennon released Stand by Me on this date. Lennon’s cover was his last hit prior to his five-year retirement from the music industry.

April 18, 1987 –Aretha Franklin and George Michael duet I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me) hit no. #1 on the Billboard charts on this date. The Queen of Soul had fallen out of favor and her fortunes were revived by her 1985 album Who’s Zoomin’ Who, which contained two US Top 10 hits: theContinue reading “I Knew You Were Waiting topped the charts”