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Have a cuppa. It’s a perfect day to celebrate National Hot Tea Day.

January 11, 1940 –The classic newspaper comedy, His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, opened in New York on this date. Rosalind Russell thought, while shooting, that she didn’t have as many good lines as Cary Grant had, so she hired an advertisement writer through her brother-in-law and had him write more cleverContinue reading “His Girl Friday premiered”

January 11, 1972 –The TV movie, Kolchak, The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin premiered on ABC-TV on this date. While filming in Las Vegas, producer Dan Curtis was amazed at how oblivious the casino gamblers were to any events going on around them other than gambling. So as a joke one day, actor Barry AtwaterContinue reading “Kolchak, The Night Stalker (film) premiered”

January 10, 1984 –The “Where’s the Beef?” commercial campaign for Wendy’s with Clara Peller was first aired on this date. Clara Peller was 81 when she came out of retirement to star in the Wendy’s spot. Peller died on August 11, 1987, one week after her 84th birthday.

January 10, 1969 – The Star Trek episode, in which the Enterprise picks up a passenger and his pursuer who are both members of a race locked in a planetary racial war, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, first aired on this date. This is the only episode in the original series to feature close-upContinue reading “Change is the essential process of all existence.”

January 10 1948 –Donald Fagen, musician and front man of the rock band Steely Dan, was born on this date. After the death of his friend and cofounder of Steely Dan, Walter Becker, Fagen continues to tour as Steely Dan.

It’s enough to get anyone through the bitter winter! There are 69 days until Spring Not to upset anyone but there are 10 days until the presidential inauguration.

January 9, 1965 –The Beatles album Beatles 65, started a nine week run at No.1 on the US album chart, the group’s fourth No.1, on this date. Beatles ’65 includes eight of the fourteen songs from Beatles for Sale and also includes I’ll Be Back from A Hard Day’s Night and the single I FeelContinue reading “Beatles 65 topped the charts”

January 9, 1984 –Van Halen released their sixth studio album, 1984, on this date. It was the last Van Halen studio album until 2012 with the release of A Different Kind of Truth, to feature lead singer David Lee Roth, who left the band in 1985 following creative differences.

January 9, 1959 – The TV Western, Rawhide, with Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates premiered on CBS-TV on this date. Clint Eastwood used the same gun and wore the same boots as in his “Spaghetti Westerns” A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He alsoContinue reading “Move ’em on (Head ’em up!) Head ’em up (Move ’em on!)”