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May 19, 1951 – The first in the series of the transvestite Bugs Bunny, the ever clueless Daffy Duck and bestiality minded Elmer Fudd’s “Hunting Trilogy“, Rabbit Fire was released on this date. Hank Azaria has cited the scene where Bugs and Daffy imitate each other as Mel Blanc’s greatest achievement in voice acting.

May 19, 2005 –Mr. Lucas needed more money to electronically remake the previous five Star Wars movies, so he released Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith on this date. The original cut of this movie ran nearly four hours. The opening battle/Palpatine rescue alone ran over an hour. The extra footage ofContinue reading “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith premiered”

May 19, 1994 –The last episode of In Living Color, aired on Fox TV, on this date. Keenen Ivory Wayans left the show in the middle of the fourth season over disputes with Fox about censoring the show’s content and rerunning early episodes without his consultation. At the end of the season, Kim Wayans andContinue reading “The finale of In Living Color”

May 18, 1976 –Warren Zevon releases his self-titled album, produced by Jackson Browne, on this date. Warren Zevon’s eponymous second album came out six years after his first. In the years between, he took musical odd jobs like writing jingles, but he also performed and caught the attention of Jackson Browne, who helped him landContinue reading “Zevon’s eponymous album went on sale”

May 18, 1990 –For a reason few people really understand, CBS TV aired the TV film, Return to Green Acres, on this date. It was reported that Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor were extremely close friends during the run of the show and the chemistry between them often showed in scenes where they were inContinue reading “We went back to Hooterville (for some reason)”

May 18, 1998 – The final episode (or so we thought) of Murphy Brown, Never Can Say Goodbye, aired on CBS-TV on this date. (The re-boot of the series ran for about a year.) One of the running series jokes was Murphy Brown’s inability to get a good secretary or one that could work withContinue reading “The finale (for the first time) of Murphy Brown”

May 17, 1969 –The fourth studio album by The Who, Tommy, a double album, is released in the US on this date. The song, Pinball Wizard, was the last one written for the album. Pete Townshend wrote it, in part, to impress a rock critic named Nik Cohn who was a pinball fanatic. The ployContinue reading “It’s a boy Mrs. Walker, it’s a boy …”

May 17, 1950 – Nicholas Ray’s excellent film noir, In a Lonely Place, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame opened on this date. In her essay Humphrey and Bogey, Louise Brooks wrote that more than any other role that Humphrey Bogart played, it was the role of Dixon Steele in this movie that came closestContinue reading “In a Lonely Place premiered”

May 17, 1940 –Garson Kanin’s screwball comedy, My Favorite Wife, opened on this date. Leo McCarey was supposed to direct the film, but shortly before the filming began, he was injured in an automobile accident and had to hand over the direction to Garson Kanin. Gail Patrick has stated that the severity of McCarey’s injuriesContinue reading “My Favorite Wife premiered”

May 17, 1792 –24 drunken stock brokers got together outside of 68 Wall Street in New York under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street which earlier was the site of a stockade fence and signed an agreement with two provisions: 1) the brokers were to deal only with each other. Thereby eliminating the auctioneers, and2)Continue reading “Here’s how it all began”