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June 22, 1966 –Mike Nichol’s first film, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opened on this date. This became the first movie in Academy Awards and cinema history to be nominated for every Academy Award category in which it was eligible, including Best Adapted Screenplay (Ernest Lehman ), Director (Mike Nichols ), all of the actingContinue reading “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf premiered”

June 22, 1965 –The first screenplay of Woody Allen that was produced, What’s New Pussycat?, starring Peter O’Toole, Peter Sellers (and co-starring Woody Allen) premiered in the US on this date. Groucho Marx was to have played Dr. Fassbender when Warren Beatty was attached to the project.

June 22, 1946 – Another of the classic 40s Daffy Duck cartoons, Hollywood Daffy, was released on this date. The director of the cartoon was an uncredited effort by Friz Freleng.

June 22, 1968 –Herb Alpert’s single This Guy’s in Love with You, went to No. 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. Alpert sang this to his first wife in a 1968 TV special called The Beat of the Brass. The sequence was taped on the beach in Malibu. The song was not intendedContinue reading “This Guy’s in Love with You topped the charts”

June 21, 1982 –Paul McCartney released the single Take It Away from his album Tug of War, on this date. The video looks like it’s about the discovery of McCartney’s group Wings, although they had broken up by then. The song is Paul McCartney’s most successful as a solo artist in the early ‘80s.

June 21, 1977 –Marvin Gaye’s song Got To Give It Up, reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, replacing Dreams by Fleetwood Mac, on this date. This song was the subject of a landmark court case filed by Marvin Gaye’s estate in 2013 against the writers of Robin Thicke’s hit Blurred Lines.Continue reading “Got To Give It Up topped the charts”

June 21, 1977 – Martin Scorsese’s homage to movie musicals – New York, New York, premiered on this date. Producer Irwin Winkler said that during filming, Robert De Niro would constantly be walking around with a copy of the book Raging Bull. Raging Bull became the next film that De Niro and Martin Scorsese madeContinue reading “New York, New York premiered”

June 21, 1969 –In an ill-advised attempted to make the British royal family seem more ‘approachable‘, the BBC aired the documentary Royal Family, on this date. Created at the behest (I absolutely love the word behest,) of Queen Elizabeth, eager to humanize the Royal Family at a time of social upheaval, it only aired twice.Continue reading “Royal Family premiered”

June 21, 1905 –It would have been the 119th birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre today. But what the hell does he care; he’s dead and it doesn’t mean anything anyway.

Today is the first full day of Summer Hopefully your day goes better than Martin’s does.