Sunday, November 17, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36AM[SHARE]Never having met the man, I have never been quite certain why the very idea of Lee Strasberg (1901-1982) has always filled me with knee jerk repulsion. One learns about him chiefly by readin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36AM[SHARE]Some brief acknowledgement this morning of the career of silent and early talking film actress Edna Muphy (1899-1974). This fetching colleen started her life in New York City. Work as a mode…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18AM[SHARE]The title of this post is of course a play on The Howards of Virginia (1940) See how clever? They radiate about as much Americana as the fictional Virginians in that Cary Grant movie. Though…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18AM[SHARE]I count it as a measure of how quickly show business will bury you that though I was born around the time Jack Lescoulie (1912-1987) was drifting out of network television, I never heard of …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 16, 2024
I became (mildly) interested in George Petrie (1912-1997) after rewatching The Day After during the Covid lockdown. I needed something to cheer me up! And I was curious to see how it held up…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AM[SHARE]November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2024
Stage actress Bertha Galland (1876-1932) enjoyed a decade at the top during the first 10% of the 20th century, often spoken of in such terms as "the next Modjeska". She left acting in her mi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AM[SHARE]November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2024
Martha Tilton (1915-2006) was a popular singer of the big band era who made her mark on record, radio, television, and film. Tilton was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas; Edna, Kansas; and fin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:12AM[SHARE]November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2024
This is to be a post about the Rockefeller Family (and don't worry, there are pop culture angles, which ought to be obvious.) It's customary to pick up the narrative with John D. (1839-1937)…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:24PM[SHARE]The narration from the opening credits in the first season of the sitcom The Odd Couple has provided the pretext for November 13 being an annual day to celebrate the show. The choice of date…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:24PM[SHARE]November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2024
I've taken to embracing round anniversaries, so I considered pushing this post on Neil Young (b. 1945) off 'til next year. But who knows if any of us will be here then? And it happens to fit…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:54PM[SHARE]November 12 was the birthday of illustrator John R. Neill (1877-1943), primarily associated with L. Frank Baum's Oz books. While W.W. Denslow had illustrated many of Baum's earlier stories, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AM[SHARE]November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2024
Starting tooday (November 12, 2024), Torn Page is marking the upcoming centennial birthday of the late, great stage and screen actress Geraldine Page (1924-1987). They'll be screening Page's…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AM[SHARE]I was honored to give the opening speech on opening night of Glen Heroy's Coney Island Clown Skool at CIUSA last night. Congratulations to him and to all concerned for getting this wonderful…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AM[SHARE]November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 10, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AM[SHARE]The title of our post has to do less with the fact that it's been a good quarter century since the peak of Sinbad (David Adkins, b. 1956) than that the comedian suffered a stroke in 2020 fro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AM[SHARE]What do you do when you're inconveniently far from home and have a couple of hours to kill between appointments? I know I'm a dying breed, but I often deal with that predicament by ducking i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AM[SHARE]An enthusiasm for 18th century painter, illustrator, and engraver William Hogarth (1697-1764) is one of the million ties that bind my wife and I together. Among other things, Hogarth was kno…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2024
How wonderful that Mabel Normand shares a birthday with Marie Dressler, Snub Pollard, and Ed Wynn! That's an astrological club that kind of makes a little sense! Anyway, having done so many …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PM[SHARE]November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:02AM[SHARE]In 1924 a young man named Don Alvarado (José Ray Paige, 1904-1967) got his first minor role in the silent film Mademoiselle Midnight starring Mae Murray, married Ann Boyar, and became th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:02AM[SHARE]Today is World Freedom Day, he said with a hollow laugh. As of November 5, the prospects for genuine individual liberty anywhere in the world seem very dim indeed, and likely will be until l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:02AM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:31AM[SHARE]I've taken an unconscionably long time in generating a dedicated post on June Havoc (Â Ellen Evangeline Hovick, 1912-2010). I'm sure it's because she was mentioned in my post about her sis…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
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