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April 6, 1979 – With Richard Benjamin as the guest host, Rickie Lee Jones is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, on this date. She performs her hits Chuck E.’s In Love and Coolsville. The episode is notable not only for Rickie Lee Jones performance but it is the first appearance of Rodney DangerfieldContinue reading “Rickie Lee Jones on SNL”

April 7, 1970 –John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy won the Oscar for Best Picture on this date. It remains the only X-rated film to win an Academy Award. The film was rated “X” (no one under 17 admitted) upon its original release in 1969, but the unrestricted use of that rating by pornographic filmmakers caused theContinue reading “Midnight Cowboy received an Academy Award”

April 7, 1978 –The Police release Roxanne in the UK on this date. BBC Radio 1 refuses to play it, which tanks the song, but when the band tours America a year later it catches on in that country, becoming their first hit.

Today is Good Friday, (also know as, Great Friday, Holy Friday or Long Friday.) On Good Friday, parishioners (the old ladies who populate church in the middle of most days) follow the officiant and observe the Stations of the Cross.

April 6, 1987 –Al Campmpanis, the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers appeared on ABC’s Nightline to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his friend, Jackie Robinson’s debut in baseball. Unfortunately, he also gave his opinion that blacks “may not have some of the necessities” to hold managerial jobs in major-league baseball. Campanis ended upContinue reading “Obviously, think before you speak”

April 6, 1967 – The Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever aired on this date. It has been considered the best episode of the series by fans, critics, and crew alike. The episode was widely be considered controversial for a number of reasons, not the least is which is that theContinue reading “The City on the Edge of Forever premiered”

April 6, 1946 – Another in the series of Daffy/ Porky cartoons, Daffy Doodles, premiered on this date. This cartoon is the first full-length cartoon that animator Robert McKimson directed.

April 6, 1992 –RCA Records released Annie Lennox’s debut solo studio album, Diva, in the UK, on this date. Annie Lennox had plenty to write about when she started work on the Diva album: She had recently become a mother, her father had died, and she was just getting going as a solo artist.

It’s sometimes called Holy Thursday, also known as Sheer Thursday (as in to purge yourself of sin), Maundy Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries. Remember to wash your feet or the feet of someone else, if you are so inclined. Among the other things going on remember: don’t go to a dinnerContinue reading “Today is Covenant Thursday”

My brother sent me this and I had to share it with you: Deeply disturbing but truly funny!