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March 14, 1975 – Melvin Frank’s film adaptation of Neil Simon’s comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue, starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft, opened in NYC, on this date. According to the Jack Lemmon’s biography Lemmon by Don Widener, Anne Bancroft recounted this episode from the film’s shooting: “[Jack was] nice to a point whereContinue reading “The Prisoner of Second Avenue premiered”

Today is Pi Day! Pi Day was founded by Physicist Larry Shaw in 1988. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts ( read – lonely shut-ins) around the world on March 14th. ? was first used as a mathematical symbol in 1706 by William Jones. Albert Einstein’s parents conveniently arranged for him to be bornContinue reading “Here’s to being irrational!”

Today, March 13, is National K9 Veterans Day, a day set aside to honor commemorate the service and sacrifices of American military and working dogs throughout history. The Army began training for its new War Dog Program, also known as the “K-9 Corps” on this date in 1942, according to American Humane, marking the firstContinue reading “Woof – Thank you for your service”

March 13, 1954 – It’s Rocky’s third appearance in a Bugs Bunny cartoon (and the funniest) – Bugs and Thugs, opened on this date. Near the end of the film, Bugs’ office has a sign that says – “Member- Detective Guild, Local 839“. Local 839 of the IATSE was the Animation Guild, whose members madeContinue reading “Bugs and Thugs premiered”

March 13, 1979 – A spin-off from the Three’s Company series, The Ropers, starring Norman Fell and Audra Lindley premiered on ABC TV, on this date. When the network proposed the spin-off of Three’s Company, focusing on the Ropers, Audra Lindley was excited and wanted to go ahead, but Norman Fell wasn’t too keen onContinue reading “Maybe you saw it, maybe you didn’t”

March 13, 1992 –Merchant Ivory Productions release of the adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel, Howards End, directed by James Ivory, from a screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave, Jemma Redgrave and Prunella Scales, opened in the US on this date. The country houseContinue reading “Howards End premiered”

March 13, 1995 –Parlophone Records released Radiohead’s second studio album, The Bends, in the UK on this date. John Leckie, the producer of The Bends, recalled to Q magazine April 2008 the recording of the album: “I love the album but by the end of the sessions I felt devastated. Without telling me, the bandContinue reading “The Bends went on sale”

March 12, 1894 –Bottled Coca-Cola was sold for the first time on this date. Since its initial creation in 1886, Coca-Cola was sold only as a fountain drink until Vicksburg, Mississippi confectioner Joseph Biedenharn thought of bottling the beverage in the same manner he had been bottling soda water and offering it for sale toContinue reading “When the pause that refreshes first came in a bottle”

Since Hitchcock was born in August, and died in April, I have no clue why we celebrate in March – its arbitrary and capricious, which makes me like it even more. (It may have to due to the fact that March 12 is the televised anniversary of his American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Awards.) Besides,Continue reading “Today is Alfred Hitchcock Day”

March 12, 1973 –After six seasons, the last episode of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In aired on NBC TV, on this date. George Schlatter did not produce the final season, but he won the rights to those episodes in a subsequent court battle. For many years, he neither allowed those episodes to be re-aired, nor anyContinue reading “The finale of Laugh-In”