August 3, 1970 – Shelved for two years after a disastrous test screening at which audiences yelled at the screen and walked out of the theater, Warner Brothers finally released Performance, directed by Donald Cammell, and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and Michèle Breton, on this date in New YorkContinue reading “Performance finally premiered”
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The first Marx Brothers Movie premiered
August 3, 1929 –Four famous vaudevillian performers took a chance on the new medium of ‘talking pictures‘ with the general release of the film, The Cocoanuts, starring the Four Marx Brothers — Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo, on this date. The film has the first use of the overhead camera shot (from the roof ofContinue reading “The first Marx Brothers Movie premiered”
Hello Nasty topped the charts
August 2, 1998 –Beastie Boys‘ fifth studio album Hello Nasty started a three week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Album Charts, on this date. This would be the band’s third U.S. No. 1 album. Some of the pioneering hip-hop acts that emerged in the early ‘80s distorted their vocals in innovative ways, butContinue reading “Hello Nasty topped the charts”
Einstein warned about Germany developing nuclear weapons
August 2, 1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd, representing fellow physicists who have discovered that an atomic bomb could be built from Uranium, write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt explaining the dangers of Germany developing Atomic Bomb capabilities before the United States. The letter came just before the beginning of World War II.Continue reading “Einstein warned about Germany developing nuclear weapons”
Enjoy it before it melts
It’s National Ice Cream Sandwich Day today, a day to enjoy an ice cream sandwich. The best way to celebrate is to make your own! Demand Euphoria!
Weird Science premiered
August 2, 1985 –Universal Pictures released the sci-fi comedy film Weird Science, directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith, on this date. In the scene where Bill Paxton is speaking to Kelly LeBrock while interrogating everyone over what had happened the previous night, in the background, Suzanne SnyderContinue reading “Weird Science premiered”
The Sixth Sense premiered
August 2, 1999 –M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller, The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette opened in the US on this date. Reportedly, Haley Joel Osment got the role of Cole Sear for one of three reasons. First, he was best for it. Second, he was the only boy atContinue reading “The Sixth Sense premiered”
In the Heat of the Night premiered
August 2, 1967 –The crime drama In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, opened in New York on this date. Set in a hot Mississippi summer, but filmed during autumn in Illinois, many of the actors had to keep ice chips in their mouths (and spit them out before takes)Continue reading “In the Heat of the Night premiered”
The death of Mark Antony
August 1, 30 BC (again, this date is not fixed in stone; the annual calendar makers orgy and dinner dance was held on this date as well) –Mark Antony, (not the not so handsome ex-husband of J-Lo but) lover of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII and claimant to the Roman throne, was the most interestingContinue reading “The death of Mark Antony”
Always summer … the fruit always ripe.
The festival of Lammas marks the beginning of the harvest, when people go to church to give thanks for the first grain to be cut. This is the long way of saying that it’s August again. How did a single month become so important? Like almost everything else that’s difficult to understand, the history ofContinue reading “Always summer … the fruit always ripe.”
The Haus of Dcaligari 