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August 23, 1985 –The Toho Studio and New World Pictures released the heavily re-edited American version of The Return of Godzilla (a sequel of the original Gojira movie), Godzilla 1985 (a sequel of the American Godzilla, King of the Monsters) starring the great Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka, and Yasuko Sawaguchi, on this date. Raymond BurrContinue reading “Godzilla 1985”

August 22, 1893 –If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker was born in New York City, to Henry and Eliza Rothschild (… My God, no, dear! We’d never even heard of those Rothschilds ….) on this date. Her birth was twoContinue reading “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

August 21, 1911 –Pablo Picasso was having a very bad day. His so called friend, French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had once called for the Louvre to be “burnt down,” came under suspicion when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Lourve on this day; he was arrested and put in jail. Apollinaire, as allContinue reading “It really was the Crime of the Century (at the time, anyway.)”

What did Vincenzo Peruggia steal on August 21, 1911? a. The Shroud of Turinb. Home platec. The Mona Lisad. The Sistine Chapele. The Hope Diamond Bonus: what was his day job? (Answer later today) And so it goes.

First we were Four Then we were three Now we are two. It was a long haul but we got Olivia and Julietta up to school.We still have a bunch of Olivia’s things here at the house, (we’ll have to go back another day with them.) She got settled in and is currently enjoying theContinue reading “We did it!”

August 20, 1941 –William Wyler’s pitch-perfect adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, starring Bette Davis, premiered on this date. Bette Davis was a contract player for Warner Brothers at the time, earning $3000 a week. When she heard how much Warners was receiving for her services she demanded a share of the payment.

Soft Serve Ice Cream has been around since the 1930s. There are conflicting reports of the origins of the dessert. In 1934, Tom Carvel, the founder of eponymous ice cream brand and franchise, had to sell melting ice cream on a parking lot because his ice cream truck had a flat tire. He noticed thatContinue reading “Today is National Soft Serve Ice Cream Day.”

August 19, 1969 –David Crosby, Steven Stills, Joni Mitchell, and the Jefferson Airplane appeared on the Dick Cavett Show, giving a first-hand account of the Woodstock festival that took place over the weekend. Jefferson Airplane’s performance of We Can Be Together marked the first time the word “fuck” was uttered on live US television.

August 18, 1868 – French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers Helium, while analyzing the chromosphere of the sun during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India, on this date. Because helium was found in the Sun before it was found on Earth, its name comes from the Greek word for Sun, helios. It marksContinue reading “Balloons are filled with some of the primordial universe.”

August 18, 1949 –The first filmed recording of CBS color television was made in Washington D.C. using a U.S. Navy-designed Berndt-Maurer camera on this date. The next week, on August 25, RCA announced their Dot Sequential color system which is the one we used today. CBS was making color with a system that used aContinue reading “First Color TV recording”