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August 23, 1968 –The Youth International Party designated Pigasus as their choice of candidate for U.S. President on this date. The boar hog was introduced at a press conference outside the Chicago Civic Center, with the slogan “They nominate a President and he eats the people. We nominate a President and the people eat him.“Continue reading “We could always have him for breakfast”

August 23, 1985 –The Toho Studio and New World Pictures released the heavily re-edited American version of The Return of Godzilla (a sequel of the original Gojira movie), Godzilla 1985 (a sequel of the American Godzilla, King of the Monsters) starring the great Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka, and Yasuko Sawaguchi, on this date. Raymond BurrContinue reading “Godzilla 1985 premiered”

August 22, 1972 – The movie that introduced Monty Python and its seminal brand of comedy to American audiences, And Now for Something Completely Different, premiered in the U.S. on this date. This movie was filmed between the first and second seasons of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It contains several sketches that had been writtenContinue reading “And Now for Something Completely Different premiered”

August 22, 1893 –Tell him I was too fucking busy– or vice versa. Dorothy Parker was born in New York City, to Henry and Eliza Rothschild (… My God, no, dear! We’d never even heard of those Rothschilds ….) on this date. Her birth was two months premature, allowing her to say that it wasContinue reading “Dorothy Parker”

August 22, 1986 –Rob Reiner adaptation of the novella by Stephen King, Stand By Me, starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, and Kiefer Sutherland premiered in US Theatres on this date. River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton and Jerry O’Connell got into a lot of mischief in the hotel they were stayingContinue reading “Stand By Me premiered”

August 22, 1946 – The last of Alfred Hitchcock’s wartime thrillers, Notorious, premiered on this date. After filming had ended, Cary Grant kept the famous UNICA key. A few years later he gave the key to his great friend and co-star Ingrid Bergman, saying that the key had given him luck and hoped it wouldContinue reading “Notorious premiered”

August 21, 1911 –Pablo Picasso was having a very bad day. His so called friend, French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had once called for the Louvre to be “burnt down,” came under suspicion when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Lourve on this day; he was arrested and put in jail. Apollinaire, as allContinue reading “Answer to yesterday’s quiz”

August 21, 1965 –The Rolling Stones‘ third British and fourth American studio album, Out of Our Heads, goes No. 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. In America, London Records released the first version of Out Of Our Heads on July 30, 1965. The UK version, issued by Decca Records, came out two monthsContinue reading “Out of Our Heads topped the charts”

August 21, 1987 –The low-budget film, directed by Emile Ardolino, Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Cynthia Rhodes, and Jerry Orbach, premiered in the US on this date. Relations between the two main stars varied throughout production. They had already had trouble getting along in their previous project, Red Dawn, and worked things outContinue reading “Dirty Dancing premiered”

August 21, 1965 –Gemini 5, the 11th crewed American spaceflight, was launched with L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr., on this date. Gemini 5 doubled the U.S. space-flight record of the Gemini 4 mission to eight days, the length of time it would take to fly to the Moon, land and return. AndContinue reading “Gemini 5 was launched”