July 14, 1969 –Dennis Hopper’s seminal ’60s classic, Easy Rider, starring Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, premiered in the US on this date. Peter Fonda got the idea for this movie after seeing a picture of he and Bruce Dern on their motorcycles. He got Dennis Hopper (who was planning to get outContinue reading “Easy Rider rolled down the highway”
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One look in the mirror, you’ll know if you should be celebrating
Today is National Nude Day. I would say for the most part, there are very few people who should actually celebrate the holiday in public. Please feel free to celebrate responsibly within the confines of your own home.
Here is where the time goes
July 13, 1985 – 39 years ago, I had only recently patented the long birthday weekend…. (I love that Bryan Ferry sang a John Lennon song rather than one of his own and David Gilmore playing guitar, as well.) (Find time to watch this short segment of a documentary about behind the scenes events ofContinue reading “Here is where the time goes”
Rock Your Baby topped the charts
July 13, 1974 –George McRae’s single Rock Your Baby became the first disco song to hit #1 on this date. The song was written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch of KC & The Sunshine Band, and it formed the basis for their wildly successful writing and performing partnership which yielded five more USContinue reading “Rock Your Baby topped the charts”
Wheel throwing was never the same
July 13, 1990 –Jerry Zucker’s romantic thriller Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tony Goldwyn, premiered in the US on this date. The role of Oda Mae Brown was not written with Whoopi Goldberg in mind, but Patrick Swayze, an admirer of hers, convinced the producers that she would be right forContinue reading “Wheel throwing was never the same”
Please remember that this was not a documentary
July 13, 1960 –20th Century Fox released the sci-fi adventure film The Lost World (based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle), directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, Claude Rains and Fernando Lamas (who looked marvelous), to U.S. theaters on this date. Director Irwin Allen wanted to use stop-motion dinosaursContinue reading “Please remember that this was not a documentary”
Hey, pay attention to the traffic lights
If you missed seeing Manhattanhenge last night, you could try again tonight at 8:27 pm ET. Those Illuminati are generous, aren’t they?
Holding Back the Years topped the charts
July 12, 1986 –The band, Simply Red’s hit Holding Back the Years wen to No. 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. Simply Red is singer Mick Hucknall (“Red” was his nickname because of his red hair). He originally recorded this in 1979 with his band The Frantic Elevators.
The second TV series featuring a moose
July 12, 1990 – Viewers first met Dr. Joel Fleischman and the folks in Cicely, Alaska when Northern Exposure premiered on CBS TV on this date. The mural for Roslyn’s Café in the opening credits is an actual café. The apostrophe and an S was added in since the show is supposed to take placeContinue reading “The second TV series featuring a moose”
HBO’s obsession with prisons began
July 12, 1997 – The joys of angry prison sex were explored far more than you wanted them to be when Oz, starring Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, J. K. Simmons, and B.D. Wong premiered on HBO, on this date Some cast members that played prisoners have noted that, throughout the series, if you showed upContinue reading “HBO’s obsession with prisons began”
