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Behold the giant metal, plastic and unbreakable-glass city of the 21st century! A city of science, atomic power, of space travel and high culture.

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Character Actor

Leon Askin (German pronunciation: [ˈleːɔn ˈaskin] (listen); born Leon Aschkenasy, September 18, 1907 – June 3, 2005) Film and television actor best known for portraying the character General Burkhalter on the TV situation comedy Hogan’s Heroes.

Fans of the television series Adventures of Superman recall his portrayals of an eastern European diamond smuggler (Joseph Ferdinand) in the 1953 black-and-white episode “Superman in Exile”, and as a South American prime minister in a color episode.

Askin gained wide recognition and popularity for his recurring role as the stern General Albert Burkhalter in the sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, appearing in 67 episodes (including the pilot) of the show’s run from 1965 to 1971.

Askin made guest appearances on The Restless Gun 1957 episode “The Shooting of Jett King”, My Favorite Martian 1965 episode “Martin Of The Movies” as Von Reinbein. The Monkees 1967 episode “The Card Carrying Red Shoes”, as Nicolai, on Daniel Boone in its 1969 episode “Benvenuto… Who?” as Roquelinm and in the “Fiddler in the House” episode of the 1974 situation comedy Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers as a violin virtuoso. Between 1977 and 1979, he appeared in Steve Allen’s PBS series, Meeting of Minds, portraying Martin Luther and Karl Marx. He portrayed a psychology professor in a season six episode of Happy Days. In 1979 he portrayed the character Mr. Hoffmeier of Hoffmeier’s Bakery, judging a pie contest in an episode in the third season of Three’s Company titled “The Bake-Off”.  (Wikipedia)

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"Actress Joan Crawford asks her assistant to bite off a loose thread from her dress at the Dorchester Hotel in London." - July 1, 1956

Photo: Thurston Hopkins

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During construction of the CBS Radio transmitter tower atop 500 Fifth Avenue (at 42nd Street), November 18, 1941.

Photo: CBS/Getty Images

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BBC Broadcasting House, London, England

The building’s clock tower. By ddraiggoch01

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Surf Festival, Manhattan Beach, CA, Photo by Ralph Crane, 1965

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Newsman Drew Pearson in The Day The Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951) in front of a WMAL microphone. 

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Sharon Tate and Laurence Harvey photographed at her and Roman Polanski's wedding reception with a misdelivered cake spelling "Happy Retirement, Hilda” (It all worked out in the end), January 20, 1968.

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10:22 AM EST November 20, 2024:

Bob Dylan - “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” From the album Highway 61 Revisited (August 30, 1965)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

★★★★

When Gravity Fails.

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Patti Smith - Blue Hawaiian Discotheque, New York City, November 10, 1974

Patti Smith — poet, rock & roller ... or standup comic? A tape from about 50 years ago suggests that Patti could've moved in the comedy direction; she's got the audience in stitches for a lot of the performance, even when her poetry readings move into extremely taboo zones. Smith's coy (almost camp at times) bearing at the Hotel Roosevelt carries the crowd along effortlessly no matter where she goes. Charisma is what they call it!

For much of the show, Patti is joined by her comrades Lenny Kaye on guitar and Richard Sohl on piano, and they already sound very simpatico, moving fearlessly in the direction of Horses, though obviously somewhat held back by the lack of a rhythm section.

But wait! Who is that pounding away on bass during the reprise of "Gloria" at the end? Could it be opening act Sandy Bull? What a strange mid-70s that guy had — he had more or less stopped making records after 1972's Demolition Derby, but he clearly was haunting the NYC scene at the time, collaborating semi-frequently onstage with Don Cherry. What would the world be like now if Patti and Lenny had asked Sandy to play oud on "Birdland"?! I don't know, but probably better.

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Intermission.

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Celebrity PSA Urging Electoral College to Dump Trump (2016)