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March 24, 1999 –The Blue Pill or the Red Pill ??? The Wachowskis‘ mega-hit science fiction classic, The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano premiered in Los Angeles, on this date. The Wachowskis harbored their vision for five and a half years, working through fourteen drafts of theContinue reading “The Matrix premiered”

March 24, 1990 –Sinead O’Connor album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got was No. 1 on the UK and US album charts, on this date. The album was released in March of 1990, by April, the single Nothing Compares 2 U from the album went to #1 in America and many other countries,Continue reading “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got topped the charts”

March 23, 1974 – You had one last time to Get Happy, when The Partridge Family aired the last episode of the series, …—…(SOS), on this date Shirley Jones presented George Chakiris, who guest stars in the episode, his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for West Side Story.

March 23, 1982 –The spin-off of the very successful series Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, starring Erin Moran and Scott Baio premiered on ABC-TV on this date. Nobody loved this musical disaster, and it was cancelled after 19 episodes.

March 23, 1912 –Wernher von Braun, German – born rocket pioneer who led the development of the V-2 rocket during World War II was born on this date. He was deemed one of the The Good Germans we collected as a bonus prize at the end of the war. Von Braun was said to beContinue reading “Wernher von Braun”

Today is the earliest day on which Easter Sunday (in the Roman Catholic faith) may occur, not that it occurs on this date this year; Easter is April 9th this year. Demand Euphoria!

March 22, 1978 – The seminal mockumentary about The Pre-Fab Four, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, directed by Eric Idle and Gary Weis and starring some people from Monty Python and some other people from SNL, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar and John Halsey regrouped in 1996 toContinue reading “The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash premiered”

March 22, 1931 –Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was. William Shatner, arguably the world’s (or at least Canada’s) greatest actor wasContinue reading “William Shatner”

March 22, 1963 – The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, was released in the UK on this date. The album went to the top of the UK charts in two months and remained there for 30 weeks. Please Please Me has been ranked in the top 50 of the “500 Greatest Albums of AllContinue reading “Please Please Me went on sale”

March 22, 1895 –Auguste and Louis Lumiere may have first demonstrated motion pictures in Paris using celluloid film. Unless it was March 19, 1895, or December 28, 1894, or cellulite instead of celluloid. And it may have been in Milan, or Warsaw, and it’s possible it wasn’t Louis and Auguste Lumiere, but Max and EmilContinue reading “The first public screening of a film (maybe)”