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July 30, 1965 –London Records released the fourth US album of The Rolling Stones, Out Of Our Heads, on this date. The American version contains the track, ( I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, which would be the band’s first number-one US hit, and would go on to top the charts in 10 other countries, includingContinue reading “Out Of Our Heads was dropped”

July 30, 1932 –United Artists released the Walt Disney Silly Symphonies cartoon Flowers and Trees, directed by Burt Gillett, on this date. It was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color three-strip Technicolor process, after several years of two-color Technicolor films. The original work was started in black and white. TheContinue reading “Flowers and Trees premiered”

Prague has always been a tough town for elected officials. On July 30, 1419, Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the Church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation in a procession through the streets of Prague to the Town Hall. The town council had refused to exchange their Hussite prisoners, andContinue reading “Keep passing open widows”

July 30, 1966 – The Dynamic Duo made the jump from the TV scene to the movie scene – Batman, The Movie, premiered in Austin, Texas on this date. The movie was scheduled to premiere in Austin, Texas, on August 1st, 1966. The premiere was postponed, however, because earlier that same day a disturbed UniversityContinue reading “Holy Toledo, Batman!”

July 30, 1999 – Warner Bros. Feature Animation released the directorial debut of The Iron Giant, featuring the voice of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald, and M. Emmet Walsh, on this date The scene the Giant’s hand is in the living room watchingContinue reading “The Iron Giant premiered –”

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop. – Alfred Hitchcock Today is Paperback Book Day. The reason for the celebration today is that Sir Allen Lane started what would become Penguin Books, and they published their first paperback book onContinue reading “Did you read my book?”

July 29, 1965 –The Beatles movie Help! opened in London on this date. One of this movie’s original taglines was, “Please do not reveal the beginning of this movie to your friends (they’d never believe it, anyway)”. This is a spoof of the tagline from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, which implored its audience, “Please do notContinue reading “Go to the window! Go to the window!”

July 29, 1972 –Gilbert O’Sullivan topped the charts with his hit Alone Again (Naturally) on this date. (I will not take responsibility for the following ear worm; listen to the clip at your own risk.) This was Irish-born singer Gilbert O’Sullivan’s only American #1. It sold 2 million copies, spent six weeks at the summitContinue reading “In a little while from now …”

Today is Lasagna Day. I’m not going to lie to you – I don’t believe you can just whip up a lasagna together in a day. It’s going to take you a day or two just to collect all of the ingredients. Why not have a nice family dinner this coming weekend by planning onContinue reading “Lasagna: the world’s most perfect food!”

July 29, 1959 – Another campy cult classic William Castle flick (this time featuring ‘Percepto‘,) The Tingler opened on this date. William Castle toyed with other ideas to frighten audience members, in addition to ‘percepto‘; among them: rolling bean bags to brush against the legs of audience members, speakers mounted at different areas that wouldContinue reading “The Tingler premiered”