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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, 1973 –Gene Roddenberry’s TV-movie/unsold pilot Genesis II, starring Alex Cord, Ted Cassidy, Lynne Marta, Percy Rodriguez, Titos Vandis and Mariette Hartley, first aired on CBS TV on this date. The science fiction justification for Lyra-a (Mariette Hartley) and other Tyranians having two navels is that they have redundant circulatory systems. However, Gene RoddenberryContinue reading “Ah, the belly button got in the way again.”

Oh, frabjous joy, it’s Melba Toast Day. The toast so named for the the Australian Opera singer Nellie Melba by her great admirer (and world famous French chef Auguste Escoffier.) but folks, get a grip, it’s just toast.

The Death of the Czars:A. 6B. 1C. 2D. 5E. 4F. 3 A. Nicholas II Shot to death by revolutionaries – Russian Czar Nicholas II was murdered, along with his family and servants, by the Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. This included his daughter Anastasia, who may not actually have been killed with theContinue reading “We will be grading on a curve.”

VersoFest is The Westport Library’s annual music and media conference and festival where knowledge is shared and inspiration is discovered — a forum for media creators, artists, and fans to converge. VersoFest includes panels where experts share their perspective and vision. Intimate workshops provide creators the opportunity to deconstruct, improve, and hone their craft. PerformancesContinue reading “Check out VersoFest 26”

Today is World Water Day. Nearly two billion people are living without access to safe water, (and it could be a lot sooner than you think in this country.) World Water Day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Continue reading “The driving forces of all nature”

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 to recordContinue reading “Meet The Rutles”

March 22, 1980 –The variety show The Tim Conway Show – Tim Conway’s second series with this title – produced by Joe Hamilton (husband of Carol Burnett), debuted on CBS on this date. This happened to be one of the last variety shows produced. The concept, at this point, was mostly dated. Tim Conway himselfContinue reading “The Tim Conway Show premiered”

March 22, 1947 – Another glimpse into the ‘early‘ pre-celebrity life of Bugs, the Merrie Melodies short, A Hare Grows In Manhattan, directed by Friz Freleng, premiered on this date. The bulldog in this short, though not directly identified, is Hector the Bulldog, a bulldog who appeared in a number of Sylvester and Tweety cartoonsContinue reading “Dog pile on the rabbit!”

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 All Time”Continue reading “Last night I said these words to my girl”