#afternoon tv june 1971
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Visit Tumblr Blog
Explore Tumblr blogs with no restrictions, modern design and the best experience.
Last Seen Tumblr Blogs
Fun Fact
Tumblr was named as a finalist in Lead411âs New York City Hot 125 in Aug 2010.
Text
December 19th 1923 saw the birth of the Scottish actor Gordon Jackson.
Gordon was born the youngest of a family of five children in Glasgow in 1923. He attended Hillhead High School, but while there took part in a number of BBC radio shows including Children's Hour. After leaving school at the age of 15, he went to work as a draughtsman at Rolls-Royce. In 1942, Ealing Studios were looking for a young Scot to act in The Foreman Went to France and Jackson was suggested. Further film work followed, including San Demetrio London, and The Captive Heart. Perhaps the most memorable film in which he starred during this period was Whisky Galore!
In 1949, Jackson starred opposite the Scottish actress Rona Anderson in the film Floodtide. The two married on 2 June 1951, and had two sons. He also made his London stage debut in 1951 in Seagulls Over Sorrento. During the 1950s and 1960s Jackson appeared in TV shows such as The Quatermass Xperiment, The Adventures of Robin Hood, ABC of Britain, The Navy Lark, Gideon's Way and The Avengers as well as in films such as The Great Escape, The Bridal Path and the The Ipcress File.
Real fame came with his role as the butler, Hudson, in sixty episodes of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs that ran from 1971 to 1975. In 1974, he was named British Actor of the Year; in 1976, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor; and in 1979 he was awarded an OBE. In 1977 he took on the role of George Cowley in The Professionals which ran for 57 episodes. He was involved in a wide range of projects during the 1980s, including narrating afternoon cookery shows in New Zealand and films such as A Town Like Alice (in which his performance won him a Logie Award), The Shooting Party and The Whistleblower. He died in London aged 66 in 1990
9 notes
·
View notes
Text
[FACTUAL STORY]
ELVIS, ice cream and the long black limousine
PHOTO 1: Elvis Presley and leaving the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 3, 1973. | PHOTO 2: Actress Sherry Boucher.
Billy Field, an instructor in the Honors College at the University of Alabama, traveled far from his hometown of Sylacauga, acting, writing and working in TV and film, before returning to his alma mater to teach screenwriting and film production. From days at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (the method-acting school), he met actress Savannah Smith Boucher, who became a lifelong friend. He began to tell a story recounted by his friend's sister, Sherry Boucher, but then she called to re-tell it, first person. Boucher was once married to George Peppard, star from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to "The A-Team," but her Elvis encounter preceded that.
Here it goes: In '73, while modeling for a car ad in Palm Springs, California, Sherry Boucher took an afternoon snack break from the desert heat. "... I was so excited about getting this ice cream," she said. As she walked, reveling in the cone, a man who she thinks was Elvis' longtime friend, Red "Sonny" West stepped up and spoke: "'There's a man in that car who wants to speak to you.'" But her folks back in Louisiana raised the kids right. She knew better than to approach strange men in cars, even if that vehicle was a star's long black limousine. She couldn't see through the windows. Possibly Red said: "You just have to walk on the sidewalk. Really, it's OK." "I'm licking this ice cream, and it's melting down my arm. I peep over, lean over, and look in the window; he rolls the window down. He went 'Hello, I'm Elvis Presley. You wanna sit down? Maybe we can get you something to help you with that'" overflowing ice cream. "I was thinking 'Oh my God.' Trying to be cool, trying to be not affected. He opens the door, and says 'You don't have to get in the car; we'll leave the door open.'" So instead of taking a seat with Elvis, Boucher sat on the edge of the limo's open door, both feet sensibly on the ground. As a young model and actress, she wasn't new to compliments, and comparisons: Depending on how her hair was styled, people would mention Natalie Wood, or Ann-Margret, though she didn't see the resemblances. But from her corona of long dark hair, Elvis pictured somebody else: The woman he was divorcing, mother of his only child. "He just had such a sad look on his face, and I said 'Are you all right?' He just looked at me, and I said 'You think I look her, don't you?' He said 'You do look like her.' And I said 'Well. I'm not her.'" She stuck out an ice-cream sticky hand, as if to shake, then had another thought. Asking for something to write on, she scribbled the phone number of her dad, Jesse Boucher. "I said, 'If you need anybody to talk to, my dad is unbelievable. He's great to talk to.' I said 'Mr. Presley,' and he looked at me and said 'Elvis.' I said, 'OK, Mr. Elvis, if you want to talk to my daddy, there's nobody better.' " "He was nothing but nice, but it was a very sad meeting," said Boucher, who after Hollywood days moved back to Louisiana. "I can't believe I was such a banana-head, to give him my dad's number." Source: https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/local/2017/08/13/readers-share-memories-of-elvis-king-of-rock-n-roll/19740202007/
PHOTO 1: Sherry Boucher (L) and George Peppard (C) attend the American Civil Liberties Union's tribute to Henry Fonda at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on June 1, 1974 | PHOTO 2: "THE F.B.I." TV show: Tom Skerritt, Sherry Boucher, 'Unknown Victim', (Season 6, aired Jan. 3, 1971), 1965-74
Elvis Presley smoking a cigar in the back seat of a station wagon at the Whiteman Air Park, Pacoima, CA on November 19, 1973.
10 notes
·
View notes
Text
Holidays 6.25
Holidays
Arbor Day (Philippines)
Blade Runner Day
Color TV Day
Cucumber Day (French Republic)
Day of the Seafarer (UN)
Doonesbury Day (Washington, DC)
Feast of the Optional Holiday
Festival of Ranting and Vaporing
Flag Day (Finland)
Global Beatles Day
International Hug a Deer Day
Korean War Remembrance Day
Lakota Victory Day
Leon Day
Log Cabin Day
Mitch Lane Day
National Camp Counts Day
National Leon Day
National Olaplex Day
National Police Community Cooperative Day
No Prayer in School Day
Paddington Bear Day
Pixie Day (Devon, England)
Rainbow Flag Day
Salute Your Hometown Day
Sense of Humor in Bed Day
Smurfs Day
Stripper Appreciation Day
Teacherâs Day (Guatemala)
Tennis Shoe Day
UNICEF Maroon 5 Day
World Anti-Bullfighting Day
World Sand Dune Day
World Vitiligo Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Anthony Bourdain Day (a.k.a. Bourdain Day)
Goats Cheese Day
International Rosé' Day
National Catfish Day
National Croatian Wine Day
National Fried Okra Day
National Strawberry Parfait Day
4th & Last Sunday in June
America's Kids Day [4th Sunday]
Bereaved Fatherâs Day (UK) [Last Sunday]
Descendants Day [Last Sunday]
Gay Pride Day [Last Sunday]
International Sit in the Front Pew Day [4th Sunday]
Log Cabin Day (Michigan) [Last Sunday]
Motherâs Day (Kenya) [Last Sunday]
National BeActive Day (Ireland) [Last Sunday]
National Ducks and Wetlands Day [Last Sunday]
National Fatherless Childrenâs Day [4th Sunday]
National Forgiveness Day [4th Sunday]
Independence Days
DĂ©tian Tsardom (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Mozambique (from Portugal, 1975)
Norfolk Empire (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Slovenia (from Yugoslavia, 1991)
Virginia Statehood Day (#10; 1788)
Feast Days
Adelbert of Northumberland (Christian; Saint)
Agoard and Aglibert, near Paris (Christian; Martyrs)
Antoni Gaudi (Artology)
Bonalu (Goddess Mahakali; Hindu Goddess of Time and Death)
Charles Martel (Positivist; Saint)
David of Munktorp (Christian; Saint)
Ed Gein Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Eurosia (Christian; Saint)
Humpty Dumpty (Muppetism)
Ludi Taurii (Games of the Bull; Ancient Rome)
Maximus (a.k.a. Massimo) of Turin (Christian; Saint)
Melee of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Molaugz (Christian; Saint)
Philipp Melanchthon (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran)
Prosper of Aquitaine (Christian; Saint)
Prosper of Reggio (Christian; Saint)
Seamen Day (a.k.a. Seafarer Day; Pastafarian)
Thothâs Day (Pagan)
William of Monte-Vergine (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [25 of 53]
Sakimake (ć
èČ Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
All You Need is Love, by The Beatles (Song; 1967)
America the Beautiful (Disney 360° Film; 1967)
Big Daddy (Film; 1999)
Blade Runner (Film; 1982)
Boskoâs Dog Race (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)
Crockett-Doddle-Do (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)
8-1/2 (Film; 1963)
F9 (Film; 2021) [F&F #9]
The Fox Chase (Disney Cartoon; 1928)
Have You Got Any Castles (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)
He Ainât Heavy, Heâs My Brother, recorded by The Hollies (Song; 1969)
Herbie Goes Bananas (Film; 1980)
Indelibly Stamped, by Supertramp (Album; 1971)
The King of Staten Island (Film; 2020)
Kinky Boots: The Musical (Film; 2019)
Klute (Film; 1971)
The Last Flight of Noahâs Ark (Film; 1980)
Lumber Jerks (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)
Mickey Mouse Disco (Disney Cartoon; 1980)
Monty Python: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Comedy Concert Film; 1982)
The Notebook (Film; 2004)
The Omen (Film; 1976)
On Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Satre (Book; 1943)
One Size Fits All, by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (Album; 1975)
Porkyâs Party (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)
Prime Suspect 1973 (UK TV Series; 2017)
Purple, by Stone Temple Pilots (Album; 1994)
Purple Rain, by Prince (Album; 1984)
Red-Headed Woman (Film; 1932)
Sleepless in Seattle (Film; 1983)
The Thing (Film; 1982)
25 or 6 to 4, by Chicago (Song; 1970)
Wonât Get Fooled Again, by The Who (Song; 1971)
Todayâs Name Days
Dorothea, Eleonora, Ella (Austria)
Adalbert, Dominik, Maksim (Croatia)
Ivan (Czech Republic)
Prosper (Denmark)
Inna, Lenna, Linda (Estonia)
Uuno (Finland)
Aliénor, Eléonore, Prosper, Salomon (France)
Doris, Dorothea, Eleonora, Ella (Germany)
Erotas, Fevronia (Greece)
Vilmos (Hungary)
Agato, Diogene, Guglielmo, Oriella, Orio (Italy)
Maiga, Milija (Latvia)
BaniutÄ, Geistautas, GeistautÄ, Vilhelmas (Lithuania)
JĂžrund, Jorunn (Norway)
Albrecht, Eulogiusz, Lucja, Ćucja, TolisĆawa, Wilhelm (Poland)
Fevronia (RomĂąnia)
TadeĂĄĆĄ (Slovakia)
Guillermo, MĂĄximo, PrĂłspero (Spain)
David, Salomon (Sweden)
Bill, Billie, Billy, Guillermo, Liam, Mina, Minnie, Prosper, Velma, Vilma, Wilhelmina, Will, William, Willie, Willis, Wilma, Wilson (USA)
Today is AlsoâŠ
Day of Year: Day 176 of 2024; 189 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 25 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 8 (Jia-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 6 Tammuz 5783
Islamic: 6 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444
J Cal: 26 Sol; Fiveday [26 of 30]
Julian: 12 June 2023
Moon: 47%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 8 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Charles Martel]
Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 12 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 5 of 94)
Zodiac: Cancer (Day 5 of 31)
0 notes
Text
Holidays 6.25
Holidays
Arbor Day (Philippines)
Blade Runner Day
Color TV Day
Cucumber Day (French Republic)
Day of the Seafarer (UN)
Doonesbury Day (Washington, DC)
Feast of the Optional Holiday
Festival of Ranting and Vaporing
Flag Day (Finland)
Global Beatles Day
International Hug a Deer Day
Korean War Remembrance Day
Lakota Victory Day
Leon Day
Log Cabin Day
Mitch Lane Day
National Camp Counts Day
National Leon Day
National Olaplex Day
National Police Community Cooperative Day
No Prayer in School Day
Paddington Bear Day
Pixie Day (Devon, England)
Rainbow Flag Day
Salute Your Hometown Day
Sense of Humor in Bed Day
Smurfs Day
Stripper Appreciation Day
Teacherâs Day (Guatemala)
Tennis Shoe Day
UNICEF Maroon 5 Day
World Anti-Bullfighting Day
World Sand Dune Day
World Vitiligo Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Anthony Bourdain Day (a.k.a. Bourdain Day)
Goats Cheese Day
International Rosé' Day
National Catfish Day
National Croatian Wine Day
National Fried Okra Day
National Strawberry Parfait Day
4th & Last Sunday in June
America's Kids Day [4th Sunday]
Bereaved Fatherâs Day (UK) [Last Sunday]
Descendants Day [Last Sunday]
Gay Pride Day [Last Sunday]
International Sit in the Front Pew Day [4th Sunday]
Log Cabin Day (Michigan) [Last Sunday]
Motherâs Day (Kenya) [Last Sunday]
National BeActive Day (Ireland) [Last Sunday]
National Ducks and Wetlands Day [Last Sunday]
National Fatherless Childrenâs Day [4th Sunday]
National Forgiveness Day [4th Sunday]
Independence Days
DĂ©tian Tsardom (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Mozambique (from Portugal, 1975)
Norfolk Empire (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Slovenia (from Yugoslavia, 1991)
Virginia Statehood Day (#10; 1788)
Feast Days
Adelbert of Northumberland (Christian; Saint)
Agoard and Aglibert, near Paris (Christian; Martyrs)
Antoni Gaudi (Artology)
Bonalu (Goddess Mahakali; Hindu Goddess of Time and Death)
Charles Martel (Positivist; Saint)
David of Munktorp (Christian; Saint)
Ed Gein Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Eurosia (Christian; Saint)
Humpty Dumpty (Muppetism)
Ludi Taurii (Games of the Bull; Ancient Rome)
Maximus (a.k.a. Massimo) of Turin (Christian; Saint)
Melee of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Molaugz (Christian; Saint)
Philipp Melanchthon (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran)
Prosper of Aquitaine (Christian; Saint)
Prosper of Reggio (Christian; Saint)
Seamen Day (a.k.a. Seafarer Day; Pastafarian)
Thothâs Day (Pagan)
William of Monte-Vergine (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [25 of 53]
Sakimake (ć
èČ Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
All You Need is Love, by The Beatles (Song; 1967)
America the Beautiful (Disney 360° Film; 1967)
Big Daddy (Film; 1999)
Blade Runner (Film; 1982)
Boskoâs Dog Race (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)
Crockett-Doddle-Do (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)
8-1/2 (Film; 1963)
F9 (Film; 2021) [F&F #9]
The Fox Chase (Disney Cartoon; 1928)
Have You Got Any Castles (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)
He Ainât Heavy, Heâs My Brother, recorded by The Hollies (Song; 1969)
Herbie Goes Bananas (Film; 1980)
Indelibly Stamped, by Supertramp (Album; 1971)
The King of Staten Island (Film; 2020)
Kinky Boots: The Musical (Film; 2019)
Klute (Film; 1971)
The Last Flight of Noahâs Ark (Film; 1980)
Lumber Jerks (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)
Mickey Mouse Disco (Disney Cartoon; 1980)
Monty Python: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Comedy Concert Film; 1982)
The Notebook (Film; 2004)
The Omen (Film; 1976)
On Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Satre (Book; 1943)
One Size Fits All, by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (Album; 1975)
Porkyâs Party (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)
Prime Suspect 1973 (UK TV Series; 2017)
Purple, by Stone Temple Pilots (Album; 1994)
Purple Rain, by Prince (Album; 1984)
Red-Headed Woman (Film; 1932)
Sleepless in Seattle (Film; 1983)
The Thing (Film; 1982)
25 or 6 to 4, by Chicago (Song; 1970)
Wonât Get Fooled Again, by The Who (Song; 1971)
Todayâs Name Days
Dorothea, Eleonora, Ella (Austria)
Adalbert, Dominik, Maksim (Croatia)
Ivan (Czech Republic)
Prosper (Denmark)
Inna, Lenna, Linda (Estonia)
Uuno (Finland)
Aliénor, Eléonore, Prosper, Salomon (France)
Doris, Dorothea, Eleonora, Ella (Germany)
Erotas, Fevronia (Greece)
Vilmos (Hungary)
Agato, Diogene, Guglielmo, Oriella, Orio (Italy)
Maiga, Milija (Latvia)
BaniutÄ, Geistautas, GeistautÄ, Vilhelmas (Lithuania)
JĂžrund, Jorunn (Norway)
Albrecht, Eulogiusz, Lucja, Ćucja, TolisĆawa, Wilhelm (Poland)
Fevronia (RomĂąnia)
TadeĂĄĆĄ (Slovakia)
Guillermo, MĂĄximo, PrĂłspero (Spain)
David, Salomon (Sweden)
Bill, Billie, Billy, Guillermo, Liam, Mina, Minnie, Prosper, Velma, Vilma, Wilhelmina, Will, William, Willie, Willis, Wilma, Wilson (USA)
Today is AlsoâŠ
Day of Year: Day 176 of 2024; 189 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 25 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 8 (Jia-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 6 Tammuz 5783
Islamic: 6 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444
J Cal: 26 Sol; Fiveday [26 of 30]
Julian: 12 June 2023
Moon: 47%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 8 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Charles Martel]
Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 12 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 5 of 94)
Zodiac: Cancer (Day 5 of 31)
0 notes
Photo
Afternoon TV - June 1971Â - Kate Jackson - Dark Shadows
15 notes
·
View notes
Text
-Mockups of the two final American SST concepts, the Boeing 2707 and the Lockheed L-2000. | Composite Photo: Justin Gibb
FLIGHTLINE: 136 - AMERICAN SST PROGRAM
Various programs to develop a supersonic transport in the US stretched from the middle 1950s until the early 1970s, but no aircraft ever resulted.
The first recorded supersonic flight (the speed of sound is 767mph at 20°C/68°F at sea level) was on 14 October 1947, when the American X-1, piloted by Chuck Yeager, reached Mach 1.06. By the 1950s, supersonic flight became a more regular occurrence, though it was still almost exclusively restricted to military pilots. Around this time, various projects around the world began to develop airliners that could break the sound barrier too. Designs like the Sud Aviation Super-Caravelle and Bristol Type 223 were sketched, but technical limitations as well as a lack of funding stalled those efforts.
â«NINETY MINUTES FROM NEW YORK TO PARISâ«
Research continued however, and by the early-1960s a new round of programs were started, with BAC (later BAe and BAE Systems) and Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale and Airbus) joining forces to produce what became Concorde, while the Soviet design bureau Tupolev developed the Tu-144 (NATO reporting name "Charger"). Numerous American carriers placed orders for Concorde aircraft, but spiraling costs and a desire to develop a domestic SST saw those orders canceled in the early 1970s. In the end, only Air France and BOAC/British Airways operated Concorde, while the Tu-144 was exclusively flown by the Soviet state airline Aeroflot.
BUY AMERICAN!
The FAA estimated in the early 1960s that there would be a market for 500+ SSTs by the year 1990. Fearing Anglo-French domination of the airline industry, the US Congress began funding various research programs, and President John F Kennedy announced a National Supersonic Transport program on 5 June 1963. Requests for proposals were sent to Boeing, Lockheed, and North American for the airframes; and Curtiss-Wright, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney for engines. The request stipulated a cruise speed of Mach 3, and a passenger capacity of up to 300. Preliminary designs were submitted on 15 January 1964
-Line drawing of the Boeing 733-790 SST, which initially featured swing wings. | Illustration: Boeing
The Boeing 733 model featured a large blended wing root with variable geometry outer panels, resembling an enlarged Rockwell B-1. The proposal included optional fuselage extensions, potentially increasing capacity to 227 passengers.
-Line drawing of the the CL-823. | Illustration: Lockheed Corp.
Lockheed's CL-823 was functionally an enlarged Concorde, though the wing shape was a cranked arrow rather than Concorde's ogival delta.
The North American NAC-60 was the smallest and slowest of the competitors, potentially transporting 187 passengers at Mach 2.65.
In 1965 the FAA downselected the NAC-60 design, as well as Curtiss-Wright's engine work, freeing up funds for Boeing and Lockheed on the airframe side and P&W and GE for the engine development.
TIME TO SHARPEN YOUR PENCIL.
The FAA scheduled a final selection in 1966, and requested detailed proposals from Boeing and Lockheed. Boeing had gone through several iterations of the Model 733, with the 733-390 being presented in September 1966. The aircraft was one of the first wide-body airliners, with 2-3-2 seating. In the 30-seat first class section, small tv's were to be integrated into a console between the seats, while in the 247-seat tourist class section larger retractable tv's would drop from the overheads every six rows. Externally, the engine pods had been moved back under the tail, and the wings, when swept back, would form a delta with the tail.
-Illustration of the 733-390, with one at maximum sweep and one at minimum. | Illustration: Boeing.
Lockheed's CL-823 had evolved as well, with the L-2000-1 design having changed from a cranked arrow to a delta wing, with the engines separated into individual pods. In order to speed production, the L-2000 was projected to use a derivative of the J58 engine that had powered the A-12 OXCART and SR-71 Blackbird. New requirements from the government saw changes to the wing and fuselage, and the engine pods were redesigned to accommodate either the P&W JTF-17A or GE4 designed as part of the SST program. The final design presented to the FAA was the L-2000-7A/B (the B was 20 feet longer), which had a passenger capacity of 230.
-Advertising image of the L-2000-7A. | Illustration: Monsigneurhulot
THE FINAL SHOWDOWN
The final designs, complete with full-scale mockups, were presented in September 1966.
-The full-scale mockup of the 733-390, in a striking white-over-yellow paint scheme. The size of the plane is evident from the man standing near the third jack. | Photo: Boeing
-Appearing no less impressive, the Lockheed L-2000 mockup. | Photo: Lockheed
FAA review of the competing SSTs took until December, with the Boeing design being announced the winner on 1 January 1967. The L-2000 was judged to easier to produce, but it was also thought to be less risky and advanced than the Boeing entry, and thus the latter was more in the spirit of the design mandate. Also, the Lockheed craft was anticipated to be louder with the JTF-17A engines, as well as being slower.
Boeing anticipated construction of the 733-390 prototypes, now referred to as the 2707-200, would begin in 1967, with first flight in 1970. Construction of the production models was expected to commence 1969, with first flight in 1972 and FAA certification anticipated by 1974.
-The public enthusiasm for the SST program was initially high, with scale models and toys of the design being release by multiple companies. Seattle's NBA team, formed in 1967, was initially named the SuperSonics. | Photo:Â oldmodelkits.com
NO PLAN SURVIVES FIRST CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY (IN THIS CASE, PHYSICS)
Almost immediately, Boeing began encountering problems with the design. Canards were added to improve flight characteristics, but this added weight. The swing wing mechanism were also much heavier than anticipated, with one pivot section being an eleven feet long, two-and-a-half feet thick piece of titanium weighing 4,600lbs. All of this added weight was eating into the plane's range and lowering the speed, and in October 1968 the company made the decision to delete the variable geometry wings and utilize a fixed delta instead. Fabrication of a mockup of the new design, the 2707-300, as well as two prototypes, commenced in September 1969. Despite these issues and delays, by October 1969 Boeing had orders for 122 2707s from 26 airlines, including Alitalia, Canadian Pacific Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Iberia, KLM, Northwest Airlines, and World Airways.
It was during this period however than organized opposition to SSTs became more pronounced. During the first half of 1964, the FAA conducted Operation Bongo II, under which Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was subjected a total of 1,253 sonic booms. Up to eight booms were scheduled, beginning at 7am and ending in the afternoon. Various aircraft were used, from fighters like the F-104 to bombers like the B-58 and XB-70. The results of the experiment were encouraging, with only 9,594 complaints of damage to buildings, 4,629 formal damage claims, and 229 claims for a total of $12,845.32 ($108.983.34 in 2021). 73% of subjects in the study said that they could live indefinitely with eight sonic booms per day, while 25% said that they couldn't. Approximately 3% of the population filed complaints or lawsuits. The FAA's handling of the program and response to the claims completely undid the public's acceptance of supersonic flight however. The program was undertaken with minimal engagement of the local authorities, and afterwards the FAA dismissed 94% of the claims received, attracting the ire of state and national leaders. Class action lawsuits were filed against the government, and public opinion turned against the SST. This culminated in a national ban on supersonic flight over land. Another source of concerns was the exhaust from the jet engines, specifically nitrogen oxides, which were found to damage stratospheric ozone. A fleet of 500 SSTs was calculated to cause a drop in ozone of 1 to 2%, though changes in fuel and engine technology would help mange this.
THE COLLAPSING STAGE...
The mounting environmental concerns, souring public perception, continuing technical hurdles and competing projects saw the funding for the SST program drying up. Both the House and Senate voted in 1971 to end funding for the program, spelling the end of American SST. Whatever work completed on the prototypes was dismantled, and the one completed 2707-300 mockup was sold to the SST Aviation Exhibit Center in Florida, which displayed it from 1973 until 1981. Hard times saw the closure of the museum, which was then sold to the Faith World Church in 1983. For the next seven years, the Osceola New Life Assembly of God held services beneath the wing of the only remaining example of the US' supersonic airliner program.
-The 2707 mockup some time in the 1980s. Sunday school classes were held under the port wing for nearly a decade. | Photo: Boeing
In 1990 the remnants of the mockup were sold to Stan Hiller, helicopter pioneer and owner of the Hiller Aviation museum. In 2013 the forward 90' section of the fuselage, now all that remained, were shipped to the Museum of Flight was part of a transfer between the two museums. What's left of the 2707-300 is now under restoration; the last remnants of a grand dream to move air travel forward at Mach 3.
-The remaining segment of the 2707, now 50 years after the program's termination. | Photo: Boeing
#aircraft#aviation#avgeek#airplanes#airplane#cold war#cold war history#coldwar#usaf#aviation history#sst#seattle supersonics#supersonic jet#supersonic transport#supersonic airliner#Boeing#Lockheed#the 60s#the 70s#the sixties#the seventies#faa#air travel#Concorde#boac#air france#Tupolev#tu-144#tu 144#concordeski
96 notes
·
View notes
Text
I follow historian Heather Cox Richardson on facebook and every day she does a write up about political history - I found yesterdayâs on abortion and the anti-abortion movement really interesting
September 2, 2021 (Thursday)
In the light of day today, the political fallout from Texasâs anti-abortion S.B. 8 law and the Supreme Courtâs acceptance of that law continues to become clear.
By 1:00 this afternoon, the Fox News Channel had mentioned the decision only in a 20-second news brief in the 5 am hour. In political terms, it seems the dog has caught the car.
As Iâve said repeatedly, most Americans agree on most issues, even the hot button ones like abortion. A Gallup poll from June examining the issue of abortion concluded that only 32% of Americans wanted the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision overturned, while 58% of Americans opposed overturning it.
"âOverturning Roe v. Wade,â" Lydia Saad of Gallup wrote, âis a shorthand way of saying the Supreme Court could decide abortion is not a constitutional right after all, thus giving control of abortion laws back to the states. This does not sit well with a majority of Americans or even a large subset of Republicans. Not only do Americans oppose overturning Roe in principle, but they oppose laws limiting abortion in early stages of pregnancy that would have the same practical effect.â
While it is hard to remember today, the modern-day opposition to abortion had its roots not in a moral defense of life but rather in the need for President Richard Nixon to win votes before the 1972 election. Pushing the idea that abortion was a central issue of American life was about rejecting the equal protection of the laws embraced by the Democrats far more than it was ever about using the government to protect fetuses.
Abortion had been a part of American life since its inception, but states began to criminalize abortion in the 1870s. By 1960, an observer estimated that there were between 200,000 and 1.2 million illegal U.S. abortions a year, endangering women, primarily poor ones who could not afford a workaround.
To stem this public health crisis, doctors wanted to decriminalize abortion and keep it between a woman and her doctor. In the 1960s, states began to decriminalize abortion on this medical model, and support for abortion rights grew.
The rising women's movement wanted women to have control over their lives. Its leaders were latecomers to the reproductive rights movement, but they came to see reproductive rights as key to self-determination. In 1969, activist Betty Friedan told a medical abortion meeting: â[M]y only claim to be here, is our belated recognition, if you will, that there is no freedom, no equality, no full human dignity and personhood possible for women until we assert and demand the control over our own bodies, over our own reproductive processâŠ.â
In 1971, even the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention agreed that abortion should be legal in some cases, and vowed to work for modernization. Their convention that year reiterated its âbelief that society has a responsibility to affirm through the laws of the state a high view of the sanctity of human life, including fetal life, in order to protect those who cannot protect themselvesâ but also called on âSouthern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.â
By 1972, Gallup pollsters reported that 64% of Americans agreed that abortion was between a woman and her doctor. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans, who had always liked family planning, agreed, as did 59% of Democrats.
In keeping with that sentiment, in 1973, the Supreme Court, under Republican Chief Justice Warren Burger, in a decision written by Republican Harry Blackmun, decided Roe v. Wade, legalizing first-trimester abortion.
The common story is that Roe sparked a backlash. But legal scholars Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel found something interesting. In a 2011 article in the Yale Law Journal, they showed that opposition to the eventual Roe v. Wade decision began in 1972âthe year before the decisionâand that it was a deliberate attempt to polarize American politics.
In 1972, Nixon was up for reelection, and he and his people were paranoid that he would lose. His adviser Pat Buchanan was a Goldwater man who wanted to destroy the popular New Deal state that regulated the economy and protected social welfare and civil rights. To that end, he believed Democrats and traditional Republicans must be kept from power and Nixon must win reelection.
Catholics, who opposed abortion and believed that "the right of innocent human beings to life is sacred," tended to vote for Democratic candidates. Buchanan, who was a Catholic himself, urged Nixon to woo Catholic Democrats before the 1972 election over the issue of abortion. In 1970, Nixon had directed U.S. military hospitals to perform abortions regardless of state law; in 1971, using Catholic language, he reversed course to split the Democrats, citing his personal belief "in the sanctity of human lifeâincluding the life of the yet unborn.â
Although Nixon and Democratic nominee George McGovern had similar stances on abortion, Nixon and Buchanan defined McGovern as the candidate of "Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion," a radical framing designed to alienate traditionalists.
As Nixon split the U.S. in two to rally voters, his supporters used abortion to stand in for women's rights in general. Railing against the Equal Rights Amendment, in her first statement on abortion in 1972, activist Phyllis Schlafly did not talk about fetuses; she said: âWomenâs lib is a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother and on the family as the basic unit of society. Womenâs libbers are trying to make wives and mothers unhappy with their career, make them feel that they are âsecond-class citizensâ and âabject slaves.â Womenâs libbers are promoting free sex instead of the âslaveryâ of marriage. They are promoting Federal âday-care centersâ for babies instead of homes. They are promoting abortions instead of families.â
Traditional Republicans supported an activist government that regulated business and promoted social welfare, but radical right Movement Conservatives wanted to kill the active government. They attacked anyone who supported such a government as immoral. Abortion turned women's rights into murder.
Movement Conservatives preached traditional roles, and in 1974, the TV show Little House on the Prairie started its 9-year run, contributing, as historian Peggy OâDonnell has explored, to the image of white women as wives and mothers in the West protected by their menfolk. So-called prairie dresses became the rage in the 1970s.
This image was the female side of the cowboy individualism personified by Ronald Reagan. A man should control his own destiny and take care of his family unencumbered by government. Women should be wives and mothers in a nuclear family. In 1984, sociologist Kristin Luker discovered that "pro-life" activists believed that selfish "pro-choice" women were denigrating the roles of wife and mother. They wanted an active government to give them rights they didn't need or deserve.
By 1988, Rush Limbaugh, the voice of Movement Conservatism, who was virulently opposed to taxation and active government, demonized women's rights advocates as "Femi-nazis" for whom "the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur." The complicated issue of abortion had become a proxy for a way to denigrate the political opponents of the radicalizing Republican Party.
Such threats turned out Republican voters, especially the evangelical base. But support for safe and legal abortion has always been strong, as it remains today. Until yesterday, Republican politicians could pay lip service to opposing the Roe v. Wade decision to get anti-abortion voters to show up at the polls, without facing the political fallout of actually getting rid of the decision.
Now, though, Texas has effectively destroyed the right to legal abortion.
The fact that the Fox News Channel is not mentioning what should have been a landmark triumph of its viewersâ ideology suggests Republicans know that ending safe and legal abortion is deeply unpopular. Their base finally, after all these years, got what it wanted. But now the rest of the nation, which had been assured as recently as the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that Roe v. Wade was settled law that would not be overturned, gets a chance to weigh in.
23 notes
·
View notes
Text
September 2, 2021 (Thursday)
In the light of day today, the political fallout from Texasâs anti-abortion S.B. 8 law and the Supreme Courtâs acceptance of that law continues to become clear.
By 1:00 this afternoon, the Fox News Channel had mentioned the decision only in a 20-second news brief in the 5 am hour. In political terms, it seems the dog has caught the car.
As Iâve said repeatedly, most Americans agree on most issues, even the hot button ones like abortion. A Gallup poll from June examining the issue of abortion concluded that only 32% of Americans wanted the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision overturned, while 58% of Americans opposed overturning it.
"âOverturning Roe v. Wade,â" Lydia Saad of Gallup wrote, âis a shorthand way of saying the Supreme Court could decide abortion is not a constitutional right after all, thus giving control of abortion laws back to the states. This does not sit well with a majority of Americans or even a large subset of Republicans. Not only do Americans oppose overturning Roe in principle, but they oppose laws limiting abortion in early stages of pregnancy that would have the same practical effect.â
While it is hard to remember today, the modern-day opposition to abortion had its roots not in a moral defense of life but rather in the need for President Richard Nixon to win votes before the 1972 election. Pushing the idea that abortion was a central issue of American life was about rejecting the equal protection of the laws embraced by the Democrats far more than it was ever about using the government to protect fetuses.
Abortion had been a part of American life since its inception, but states began to criminalize abortion in the 1870s. By 1960, an observer estimated that there were between 200,000 and 1.2 million illegal U.S. abortions a year, endangering women, primarily poor ones who could not afford a workaround.
To stem this public health crisis, doctors wanted to decriminalize abortion and keep it between a woman and her doctor. In the 1960s, states began to decriminalize abortion on this medical model, and support for abortion rights grew.
The rising women's movement wanted women to have control over their lives. Its leaders were latecomers to the reproductive rights movement, but they came to see reproductive rights as key to self-determination. In 1969, activist Betty Friedan told a medical abortion meeting: â[M]y only claim to be here, is our belated recognition, if you will, that there is no freedom, no equality, no full human dignity and personhood possible for women until we assert and demand the control over our own bodies, over our own reproductive processâŠ.â
In 1971, even the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention agreed that abortion should be legal in some cases, and vowed to work for modernization. Their convention that year reiterated its âbelief that society has a responsibility to affirm through the laws of the state a high view of the sanctity of human life, including fetal life, in order to protect those who cannot protect themselvesâ but also called on âSouthern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.â
By 1972, Gallup pollsters reported that 64% of Americans agreed that abortion was between a woman and her doctor. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans, who had always liked family planning, agreed, as did 59% of Democrats.
In keeping with that sentiment, in 1973, the Supreme Court, under Republican Chief Justice Warren Burger, in a decision written by Republican Harry Blackmun, decided Roe v. Wade, legalizing first-trimester abortion.
The common story is that Roe sparked a backlash. But legal scholars Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel found something interesting. In a 2011 article in the Yale Law Journal, they showed that opposition to the eventual Roe v. Wade decision began in 1972âthe year before the decisionâand that it was a deliberate attempt to polarize American politics.
In 1972, Nixon was up for reelection, and he and his people were paranoid that he would lose. His adviser Pat Buchanan was a Goldwater man who wanted to destroy the popular New Deal state that regulated the economy and protected social welfare and civil rights. To that end, he believed Democrats and traditional Republicans must be kept from power and Nixon must win reelection.
Catholics, who opposed abortion and believed that "the right of innocent human beings to life is sacred," tended to vote for Democratic candidates. Buchanan, who was a Catholic himself, urged Nixon to woo Catholic Democrats before the 1972 election over the issue of abortion. In 1970, Nixon had directed U.S. military hospitals to perform abortions regardless of state law; in 1971, using Catholic language, he reversed course to split the Democrats, citing his personal belief "in the sanctity of human lifeâincluding the life of the yet unborn.â
Although Nixon and Democratic nominee George McGovern had similar stances on abortion, Nixon and Buchanan defined McGovern as the candidate of "Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion," a radical framing designed to alienate traditionalists.
As Nixon split the U.S. in two to rally voters, his supporters used abortion to stand in for women's rights in general. Railing against the Equal Rights Amendment, in her first statement on abortion in 1972, activist Phyllis Schlafly did not talk about fetuses; she said: âWomenâs lib is a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother and on the family as the basic unit of society. Womenâs libbers are trying to make wives and mothers unhappy with their career, make them feel that they are âsecond-class citizensâ and âabject slaves.â Womenâs libbers are promoting free sex instead of the âslaveryâ of marriage. They are promoting Federal âday-care centersâ for babies instead of homes. They are promoting abortions instead of families.â
Traditional Republicans supported an activist government that regulated business and promoted social welfare, but radical right Movement Conservatives wanted to kill the active government. They attacked anyone who supported such a government as immoral. Abortion turned women's rights into murder.
Movement Conservatives preached traditional roles, and in 1974, the TV show Little House on the Prairie started its 9-year run, contributing, as historian Peggy OâDonnell has explored, to the image of white women as wives and mothers in the West protected by their menfolk. So-called prairie dresses became the rage in the 1970s.
This image was the female side of the cowboy individualism personified by Ronald Reagan. A man should control his own destiny and take care of his family unencumbered by government. Women should be wives and mothers in a nuclear family. In 1984, sociologist Kristin Luker discovered that "pro-life" activists believed that selfish "pro-choice" women were denigrating the roles of wife and mother. They wanted an active government to give them rights they didn't need or deserve.
By 1988, Rush Limbaugh, the voice of Movement Conservatism, who was virulently opposed to taxation and active government, demonized women's rights advocates as "Femi-nazis" for whom "the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur." The complicated issue of abortion had become a proxy for a way to denigrate the political opponents of the radicalizing Republican Party.
Such threats turned out Republican voters, especially the evangelical base. But support for safe and legal abortion has always been strong, as it remains today. Until yesterday, Republican politicians could pay lip service to opposing the Roe v. Wade decision to get anti-abortion voters to show up at the polls, without facing the political fallout of actually getting rid of the decision.
Now, though, Texas has effectively destroyed the right to legal abortion.
The fact that the Fox News Channel is not mentioning what should have been a landmark triumph of its viewersâ ideology suggests Republicans know that ending safe and legal abortion is deeply unpopular. Their base finally, after all these years, got what it wanted. But now the rest of the nation, which had been assured as recently as the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that Roe v. Wade was settled law that would not be overturned, gets a chance to weigh in.
11 notes
·
View notes
Text
TV GUIDE: LUCYâS EARLY DAYS
June 12, 1971Â
Lucille Ball appeared on the cover of TV Guide (volume 19, no. 24) on June 12, 1971. The cover drawing was by Al Parker. The inside article was titled âLucille Ballâs Early Daysâ by Dwight Whitney.Â
The cover illustration of Lucille Ball is by Al Parker, one of the artists that founded the Famous Artists School in 1948. Â The school was based in Westport, Connecticut, which was also where the Ricardos moved to in 1956 on âI Love Lucy.â Parker also contributed an illustration of Lucille Ball (inset) for the September 5, 1964 TV Guide cover.
The listing for âThe Lucy Showâ (here titled âLucille Ballâ) is a re-run of âLucy the Stockholderâ (TLS S3;E25) first aired on March 29, 1965.
That afternoonâs âI Love Lucyâ was âLucyâs Club Danceâ (ILL S3;E25) first aired on April 12, 1954.
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
Joel T. Schumacher
(August 29, 1939 â June 22, 2020) was an American filmmaker. Schumacher rose to fame after directing three hit films: St. Elmo's Fire (1985), The Lost Boys (1987), and Flatliners (1990). He later went on to direct the John Grisham adaptations The Client (1994) and A Time to Kill (1996). His films Falling Down (1993) and 8mm (1999) competed for Palme d'Or and Golden Bear, respectively.
Director of films, including: The Incredible Shrinking Woman, 1981; D.C. Cab, 1983; St. Elmo's Fire, 1985; The Lost Boys, 1987; Cousins, 1989; Flatliners, 1990; Dying Young, 1991; Falling Down, 1993; The Client, 1994; Batman Forever, 1995; A Time to Kill, 1996; Batman & Robin, 1997; 8 mm, 1999; Flawless, 1999; Mauvaises Frequentations, 1999; Tigerland, 2000; Bad Company, 2002; Phone Booth, 2003; Veronica Guerin, 2003; Phantom of the Opera, 2004. Director of television movies, including: The Virginia Hill Story, 1974; Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill, 1979.
Awards:
National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) ShoWest Director of the Year Award, 1997; NATO ShowEast Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, 1999.
Sidelights
After more than three decades in the film industry, Joel Schumacher has earned a reputation as one of the most respected and wellâliked mainstream
Joel Schumacher
filmmakers around. Schumacher's films are glossy; he delights moviegoers with his staggering sense of style. Movie companies love Schumacher as well because he completes his films on time and on budget. Over the years, the costume designerâturnedâdirector has generated a long list of credits to his name, including the 1985 hit St. Elmo's Fire, which helped launch the careers of the "brat pack" kids, including Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Emilio Estevez. His biggest blockbuster was 1995's Batman Forever, starring Val Kilmer in the feature role and Jim Carrey as his nemesis, The Riddler. That movie grossed $184 million at the box office. For Schumacher, it is a dream come true. "I'm very lucky to be here," he told Jim Schembri of the Age. "I have a career beyond my wildest dreams. I've wanted to make movies since I was seven. I have my health, I conquered drugs and alcohol.⊠I've survived an awful lot."
Schumacher was born on August 29, 1939, in New York, New York, and grew up an only child in the workingâclass neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens, New York. Speaking to the New York Times 's Bernard Weinraub, Schumacher referred to himself as an "American mongrel." Said Schumacher: "My mother was a Jew from Sweden; my father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee."
When Schumacher was four, his father died. To make ends meet, his mother went to work selling dresses. She worked six days a week and also some nights. "She was a wonderful woman, but, in a sense, I lost my mother when I lost my father," Schumacher told Newsweek 's Mark Miller. By the time he was eight, the unsupervised Schumacher was on the street taking care of and entertaining himself. He found comfort reading Batman comics and spent long afternoons in darkened movie theaters watching Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant on the big screen. "Those were my two biggest obsessions before I discovered alcohol, cigarettes, and sex," Schumacher told Miller. "Then my obsessions changed a little bit. I started drinking when I was nine. I started sex when I was eleven. I started drugs in my early teens. And I left home the summer I turned 16. I went right into the beautifulâpeople fast lane in New York at the speed of sound. I've made every mistake in the book."
As a child, Schumacher also dabbled in entertainment. He built his own puppet theater and performed at parties. To help his mother make money, he also delivered meat for a local butcher. Walking the streets, Schumacher became interested in window displays and volunteered to dress the store windows in his neighborhood.
After he left home at 16, Schumacher lied about his age and landed a job at Macy's selling gloves in the menswear department. From there, he became a window dresser for Macy's, as well as Lord & Taylor and Saks. Later, Schumacher worked as a window dresser at Henri Bendel's and earned a scholarship to the Parsons School of Design in New York City. He also attended that city's Fashion Institute of Technology. Next, he worked as a fashion designer and helped manage a trendy boutique called Paraphernalia, long associated with Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick. In time, Schumacher found work with Revlon, designing packaging.
With a keen eye for style, Schumacher became a big star in the fashion world, but sunk lower into drugs. He favored speed, acid, and heroin. Schumacher refered to this period of his lifeâthe 1960sâas his "vampire" years, according to Newsweek 's Miller. He stayed inside all day, covering his windows with blankets. He only went out at night. One day in 1970, something snapped, and Schumacher quit the hardâcore drugs. "I guess it was the survivor in me," he told Weinraub in the New York Times. "I just knew I had to stop." He did, however, continue drinking, a problem that plagued him for two more decades.
In 1971, Schumacher relocated to Los Angeles, California, and got his foot in the film industry door when he landed a trial job as a costume designer for Play It As It Lays, which was released in 1972. From there, he picked up jobs as a costume designer for movies like Woody Allen's Sleeper and Blume in Love, both released in 1973. Through these movies, Schumacher made contacts and landed his first directing job for the 1974 NBCâTV drama The Virginia Hill Story. He also began writing screenplays, including 1976's Car Wash, and the 1978 musical, The Wiz. Finally, in 1981, he got his first shot at filmmaking, directing Lily Tomlin in The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Reviewers frequently commented on the atypical color scheme he chose for this film.
One of Schumacher's early successes was a 1983 film about a metropolitan cab company run by a group of misfits. Called D.C. Cab, the film featured Mr. T. Other early hits included 1985's St. Elmo's Fire, and 1987's The Lost Boys. The latter film, a vampire flick, helped launch the careers of Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, and Kiefer Sutherland; it was a hit with the teen audience. He followed up with the 1990 thriller Flatliners, and the psychological drama Falling Down, starring Michael Douglas, in 1993.
By the early 1990s, Schumacher was coming into his own. Legendary author John Grisham asked Schumacher to adapt his bestâselling legal thriller, The Client, for the big screen. Schumacher cast Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon in lead roles in the film that told the story of a streetâsavvy kid in danger because he had information about a mob killing. The movie, released in 1994, was wellâreceived and Sarandon received an Oscar nomination for best actress.
Next, Schumacher earned directorial rights to Batman Forever, released in 1995. The first two installments of the series were directed by Tim Burton, but were thought to be too dark and serious. Schumacher was charged with brightening the series. Val Kilmer replaced Michael Keaton as Batman, and Jim Carrey joined the cast as The Riddler. Under Schumacher's direction, the movie became the blockbuster of the summer, raking in $184 million. Batman & Robin followed in 1997 but was terribly unsuccessful, putting an end to the Batman series.
Over the years, Schumacher has become known for his perceptive ability to cast unknown actors and turn them into hotshots. His films have given rise to the careers of the "brat packers," as well as Matthew McConaughey, cast in Schumacher's 1996 adaptation of another Grisham novel, A Time to Kill. Schumacher also "discovered" Irish actor Colin Farrell, giving him the lead in the 2000 Vietnam drama Tigerland, which proved to be Farrell's breakthrough performance. Schumacher later cast Farrell in his 2003 suspense thriller Phone Booth, which was shot in an amazing 12 days.
Another actor who gained prominence under Schumacher is comedian Chris Rock, who starred in 2002's Bad Company. Like many actors, Rock enjoyed working with Schumacher and was amazed by Schumacher's ability to handle the whole operation of movieâmaking. As Rock told Film Journal International 's Harry Haun: "Joel is like a general, like Patton or something. He really knows how to whip up the troops. Doing a big movie is a lot of directing. It's coordinating a whole town. It's like being a mayor, and he's totally up to the taskâof being a general and making it artistic."
What makes Schumacher stand apart from other directors is his eye for style. Characters in his films appear polished and classy, yet sexy. According to Haun, a Movieline article by Michael Fleming once proclaimed, "Why Don't People Look in Other Movies Like They Look in Joel Schumacher Movies?" For that, Schumacher credits his childhood spent in movie theaters where he inhaled a steady diet of films with stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Cary Grant, and Marilyn Monroe. As Schumacher explained to Haun, "You went to the movies and sawâGrace Kellyâthese staggering images on the screen, so I think my early film influences are these archetypesâAudrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper. It's very much how I see film."
With about 20 films under his belt, Schumacher has had nearly every kind of review possible but says, for the most part, that he ignores them. Speaking with Film Journal International 's David Noh, Schumacher said he does not read reviews. "Woody Allen taught me a long time ago, 'Don't read them. If you believe the good, you'll believe the bad.' When they think you're a genius it's an exaggeration also, so somewhere between genius and scum is the reality of life."
After his foray into the blockbuster, highâbudget world of the Batman series, Schumacher pulled back from bigâname titles and returned to making grittier, chancier films. In 2003, he branched out into true crime, directing the film Veronica Guerin, which starred Cate Blanchett as the Irish journalist of the title. Guerin was killed by a heroin kingpin in 1996, who was angered by her investigative reporting. Schumacher made the movie in Ireland on a budget of $14 millionâwhereas $70 million is the average cost for a studio film. Once again, Schumacher was like a general. He kept everyone focused, shooting at 93 locations in 50 days.
The film won praise for its straightforward approach to the topic. Schumacher refused to glorify Guerin postâmortem, a trap many directors fall into. Speaking to the Age 's Schembri, Schumacher spoke about true stories this way: "You want to be sure that you're approaching the subject matter with integrity and not just trying to glorify the person, but trying to be honest with the facts, even if it upsets some people." Schumacher has also tried his hand at producing a musical. His film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera, was set for release in 2004.
Schumacher is also openly gay but refuses to get into discussions about how his sexuality affects him in the movie business. "It never was an issue," he told Film Journal International 's Noh, noting he does not believe in labels. "I think we're all villains and victims, as long as we live in a culture which keeps defining people as AfricanâAmerican lesbian judge, gay congressman, Jewish viceâpresidential candidate, etc. You would never say that Bill Clinton was a Caucasian heterosexual WASP president, you just say he's Bill Clinton. That means the only norm is white WASP male, because everyone else must be defined. I'm totally against that."
Despite his success, Schumacher has no plans to rest on his laurels. Though he is considered a veteran filmmaker by many, Schumacher still sees himself as a student. As he told the Guardian 's Peter Curran: "I hope I haven't made my best one yet, I'm still trying to learn on the job. So I keep stretching and hopefully I keep making better and better films.
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
2Pac, Mouse Man, Gerard Young, Darrin Keith Bastfield For Born Busy & East Side Crew
Pictured, from left 2Pac, middle row fifth from right, as a middle school student. Dana Smith aka Mouse Man, bottom left, and 2Pac with family friends. Born Busy is rap group formed in Baltimore with Tupac Shakur, Gerard Young, Darrin Keith Bastfield and Dana Smith aka Mouse Man. At age 13, Tupac moved to Baltimore from New York City in 1984 with his mother, Afeni, and younger sister, Sekyiwa. The family lived in the first-floor apartment of a brick row house at 3955 Greenmount Avenue in the small, North Baltimore neighborhood of Pen Lucy. Tupac went to Roland Park Middle School for the eighth grade. That yearâs photo for Mrs. Geeâs class shows him in the second row, near the center. With close-cropped hair and dressed in a light-colored, short-sleeve shirt, he looks lanky, even scrawny, among his classmates. Still, itâs easy to spot him thanks to his thick black eyebrows and dark eyes. And then thereâs the mouth. While the other kids sport tight-lipped smiles or teeth-baring âsay cheeseâ grins, Tupac strikes an altogether different pose. Actually, he doesnât appear posed at all. His mouth is open wide, and he seems engaged, not docile or mindlessly compliant. It looks like he might be talking to the photographer. Dana Smith sits in the front row, to Tupacâs left. Smith, nicknamed âMouse Man,â forged a musical bond with Tupac and remembers the first time he spoke to him on the bus home from school. That day, in September 1984, the No. 8 bus was nearly full and Tupac took the only open seat, the seat beside Smith, who was itching to get home and listen to WEBBâs Rap Attack show at four oâclock.
âHe kicked a rhyme to me, and I was like, âWhoa, this is crazy.ââ
Smith, a talented beatboxer, asked the newcomer if he was into hip-hop and knew how to rap. âHe kicked a rhyme to me, and I was like, âWhoa, this is crazy. It was really good.â He later learned the rhyme wasnât originalâit was actually lifted from a Kurtis Blow song Shakur knew from New York, which hadnât made it to Baltimore yet. Their friendship blossomed, rooted in a shared love of hip-hop acts like Eric B & Rakim and Run DMC and an appreciation of different types of music. As Smith recounts the story, he walks around The Sound Garden, the now venerable Fells Point record store, and points out some of the nonrap music Shakur enjoyed. Kate Bush? âYes, indeed,â says Smith. ââWuthering Heightsâ was the song.â Sting? Yup. Steve Winwood? Yup. âHey, we were also listening to Brian & OâBrien on B104, playing the hits all day long,â he says, referring to the then-popular top 40 radio program. Smith picks up a CD copy of Dire Straitsâ Brothers in Arms. It, too, was a favorite, but not for hits like âMoney for Nothing.â Smith starts singing lyrics from the title track that resonated: âThrough these fields of destruction/Baptisms of fire.â The tune, sung by Brit Mark Knopfler, traces a protagonist who faces death and treasures his comradesâ loyaltyâground Shakur covered in songs he later wrote. When asked about this type of musicâs appeal back in the day, Smith claims much of it was practical, a lesson in song craft: âFor us, it was all about identifying transitions in songs and how smooth they were.â They would meet up every afternoon to write rhymes, after Smith finished his homework. Sometimes, theyâd hang out at a rec center on Old York Road, but Shakur wasnât into playing basketball or pingpong, because âhe sucked at sports, all sports,â says Smith. Most often, the two of them simply composed raps, either sitting inside a plastic bubble on the playground behind Tupac's houseââthe acoustics were so good in there,â recalls Smithâor hunkered down in Smithâs basement on nearby 41st Street. Smithâs house was lively, populated by an array of family members including grandparents, his mother, an aunt, and two uncles. Music was always playing. Smith was the youngest of his group of friends, a self-professed âgood kid, the freshest kid on the blockâ who had all the latest fashionable clothes and sneakers, thanks to his uncles, who dealt drugs in the neighborhood. Tupac, on the other hand, came from poverty. His father wasnât around; his mother had been arrested and charged with conspiracy to bomb New York City landmarks while a member of the Black Panther Party in 1969. A month after being acquitted of the charges, she gave birth to Shakur, on June 16, 1971. Afeni, who passed away in May and was the inspiration behind the song âDear Mama,â struggled with substance abuse issues (âAnd even as a crack fiend, mama/You always was a black queen, mamaâ) and with supporting the family (âYou just working with the scraps you was given/And mama made miracles every Thanksgivingâ). Tupac wore hand-me-downs, including pants that were so big they had to be stapled. He slept in a small bedroom, while his mother and little sister slept in the dining room Afeni had converted into a bedroom. Smith says the Shakur house was âalways dark, dim. They had lights and it was clean, but it was dark with not a lot of stuff in there.â Smithâs family and friends razzed him for befriending the raggedy newcomer. âThis guy is cornballâeverything about him is corny,â he recalls them saying. âWhy are you hanging out with him?â The answer, says Smith, was simple: âWe loved to rap.â Darrin Keith Bastfield, CEO of Born Busy Films and BecomeAPatron.com is currently working on developing projects in television and two upcoming theatrical film projects that heâs written and will debut direct such as âShakurspeareâ, inspired by Bastfieldâs painting âShakurspeareâ that the late Tupac Shakur posed for at age 16 is a romantic comedy/drama thatâs centered around the controversial world of art, and âBorn Busyâ, a coming of age true story based on his memoir âBack in the Day: my life and times with Tupac Shakurâ published by Randomhouse/Ballantine in 2002 (Hardcopy) and Perseus/Da Capo Press in 2003 (Paperback). Bastfied is also a featured artist in the upcoming âBlack Artists on Artâ Catalogues Volumes 3 and 4 published by Samella Lewis, renowned Art Historian/Artist/Art Collector. Darrin Keith Bastfield: Although rap was Tupacâs true love, the variety of music he listened to was amazing. This became clear to me one Saturday morning when he, Richard, and I sat around the living room of the apartment in our boxer shorts and undershirts talking about music.
Born Busy (the rap group we formed in Baltimore), with Gerard Young, Tupac Shakur, and Darrin Keith Bastfield  Richard was definitely a cool guy, who had a pleasant disposition and a free-flowing approach to life. His bedroom door was never closed, even when his girlfriend was in there with him. In the mornings I would see them lying on a single mattress on the floor (no box spring underneath), still asleep. I showed him respect, and he was always cool to me. No matter how much time I spent there at the apartment, he never gave me even the slightest hint of a bad vibe. We periodically had chill sessions when he was around (which wasnât a whole lot). And when I wasnât there, he and Tupac would bond.
A page from Back in the Day My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur shows photos of the author with Tupac and other friends. In this Saturday morning discussion, Tupac floated along with Richard easily, unmoved by any of his older roommates' detours in various directions that were completely unfamiliar to me. Despite Richardâs dramatically different background and social orientation, Tupac never once lost his footing, and comfortably expounded upon many of the different artists who came up over the course of the conversation which spanned the full spectrum. From LL Cool J to Peter Gabriel, and Sun Ra and Jimi Hendrix to Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters, Tupac had something meaningful to say. I tried to imagine where he had gotten this exposure, how he had become so familiar with all of the divergent artists, but was unsuccessful. The picture of him listening to much of this stuff in his momâs apartment did not fit, nor could I see it occurring up in New York among his family or friends up there (whom I would later meet). In fact this is still a mystery to me. The best answer I have managed is that he absorbed it all in a few months of his residence at the apartment. There the large collections of the two older roommates (Richard and Johnâs brother) would have been available to him and played regularly in the apartment. It wasnât just the variety of music to which Tupac listened that struck me, but the fact that he was genuinely interested in and knowledgeable about the music, and the various artists behind it. Richard played the role of DJ through the discussion, putting on a succession of different records that they would then discuss and critique after hearing only a few bars. I specifically remember Tupac talking about Tracy Chapman. He felt she was a musical genius. After quoting several lyrics from a favorite song of hers, he concluded, âThatâs a true poet.â
Cover of 'Back in the Day: My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur' by Darrin Keith Bastfield. Tupac was definitely a sponge of amazing efficacy, particularly with information at all dealing with either of his two loves in life: rap and acting. As an actor, the ease with which Tupac remembered lines was incredible, and his knowledge of craft impressive. When I asked him one afternoon the type of actor he wished to be, his reply was immediate: âA Shakespearean actor.â He said this without emotion, from a windowsill at the fore of the apartment, not breaking his passive yet focused gaze outward. âA what?!â I replied, taken aback. And he repeated himself. âWhy?! They donât make any money.â I was thoroughly confused. The Tupac I knew was destined for far greater things than low budget productions in small playhouses. I envisioned him marching through the entertainment industry to some star-spangled movie or TV career, and untold millions. And I just assumed that his vision for himself was twice as grand as any I could conjure for him. His reply was disappointingly anticlimactic, and downright troubling. Dana Smith aka Mouse Man was Tupacâs friend during his teenage years in Baltimore. Together, they created rap groups East Side Crew & Born Busy. Which is where Tupacâs first recorded audio came from. At the young age of 14 years old, âBorn Busyâ created their first song âBabies Having Babies. Gerard (High School Friend):Â "First time I ever saw Tupac, he was in eighth grade. I seen this kid that had this shirt with the old school iron-on letters, MC NEW YORK. And he was rhyming. All these people was around him -- even back then. We was adversaries at first, but we formed a crew. Born Busy and shit, MC New York, DJ Plain Terror, Ace Rocker, and my man D on the beat box. Taking mad peoples out--the invincibles. Then we started writing little rhymes for Jada (Pinkett). Jada was rhyming a little bit too. Don''t Sleep." Songs recorded during 'Born Busy'' era: Babies Having Babies ft Dana Mouse Smith (Acapella) 1987 Produced by Born Busy Check It Out ft Dana Mouse Smith (Acapella) 1987 Produced by Born Busy Terror On The Tables ft Ace Rocker (Acapella) February 1988 Produced by Born Busy That's My Man Throwing Down ft Ace Rocker (Acapella) Februaury 1988 Produced by Born Busy I Saw Your Girl ft Ace Rocker (Acapella) March 1988 Produced by Born Busy Girls Be Tryin To Work A Nigga April 1988 Produced by Born Busy
Mouse Man & 2Pac Songs recorded featuring Mouse Man: N.I.G.G.A., Black Cotton, What goes On & Niggaz in the Pen
Mouse Man, Baba Bojang aka Slick D and MC New York aka 2Pac ''In the mid-1980s, rap wasnât yet the commercial juggernaut it has becomeâit was gaining popularity, but hadnât arrived in the mainstream. The Enoch Pratt Free Library, ahead of the curve, sponsored a youth rap contest in November 1985. Tupac spotted a flier with âCalling All Rappers!â across the top, urging anyone under the age of 18 to âwrite the best rap about the Pratt Library and be eligible for a cash prize.â All entrants had to submit a written copy in advance (âNo Profanity Allowedâ), and the finalists performed at the library at Pennsylvania and North avenues.
Mouse Man & MC New York aka 2Pac / 1985 Tupac and Mouse Man created âLibrary Rap,â which Shakur wrote out in longhand, in black pen, on a piece of lined notebook paper, and Tupac and Mouse Manâs group The East-Side Crew entered the contest. Deborah Taylor, then the Prattâs young adult services coordinator, organized the contest and remembers Tupac and Mouse Man as âvery polite boys. They were nice kids.â She drove them to the contest because they didnât have transportation. Tupac and Mouse Manâs winning performance opened with Tupac declaring, âYoâ Enoch Pratt, bust this!â and urging Baltimoreans to get library cards. They told kids to stay in school, learn to read, and âget all the credits that you need.â (Tupac's handwritten verses now reside in the Prattâs Special Collections archive, alongside works by H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allan Poe.)
Mouse Man & MC New York aka 2Pac Taylor, who still works at the Pratt, recalls all the judges commenting on the same thing: The scrawny kid lit up the room with his rapping. âWhen Tupac performed,â she says, âyou could not take your eyes off him.â Tupac and Mouse Man performed whenever and wherever they could: for the drug dealers working on Old York Road, opening for rap group Mantronix at the Cherry Hill rec center, and even at neighborhood funerals. They also wrote rhymes with titles like âBabies Havinâ Babiesâ and âGenocide Rapâ that reflected the political and social awareness Shakur inherited from his mother.
Mouse Man, 2Pac & Mopreme âTupac was always conscious of that shit,â says Mouse Man. âHe schooled us on those sort of social justice issues, and hip-hop was the perfect outlet. It allowed us to say what was on our mind, and people listened.â sources: baltimoremagazine.com | biography.com Read the full article
2 notes
·
View notes
Photo
December 19th 1923 saw the birth of Gordon Jackson who became a much loved actor on stage, TV and film. Gordon Jackson was born the youngest of a family of five children in Glasgow in 1923. He attended Hillhead High School, but while there took part in a number of BBC radio shows including Childrenâs Hour. After leaving school at the age of 15, he went to work as a draughtsman at Rolls-Royce. In 1942, Ealing Studios were looking for a young Scot to act in The Foreman Went to France and Jackson was suggested. Further film work followed, including San Demetrio London, and The Captive Heart. Perhaps the most memorable film in which he starred during this period was Whisky Galore! In 1949, Jackson starred opposite the Scottish actress Rona Anderson in the film Floodtide. The two married on 2 June 1951, and had two sons. He also made his London stage debut in 1951 in Seagulls Over Sorrento. During the 1950s and 1960s Jackson appeared in TV shows such as The Quatermass Experiment, The Adventures of Robin Hood, ABC of Britain, The Navy Lark, Gideonâs Way and The Avengers as well as in films such as The Great Escape, The Bridal Path and the The Ipcress File. Real fame came with his role as the butler, Hudson, in sixty episodes of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs that ran from 1971 to 1975. In 1974, he was named British Actor of the Year; in 1976, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor. In 1977 he took on the role of George Cowley in The Professionals which ran for 57 episodes. He was involved in a wide range of projects during the 1980s, including narrating afternoon cookery shows in New Zealand and films such as A Town Like Alice (in which his performance won him a Logie Award), The Shooting Party and The Whistleblower.
In December 1989, he was diagnosed with bone cancer; he died on 15th January 1990, aged 66, in London. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.
27 notes
·
View notes
Text
Bill Kennedy at the Movies
Cross-posted from our blog.
Heavyweight boxing champion, Joe Louis, with Kennedy in 1961.
Last summer, were pleased to receive approximately 150 photos from the grandniece of popular Detroit movie host, Bill Kennedy.  The photos were from Kennedyâs personal collection and had previously been displayed on the walls of his home office/study in Florida. As museum staff members browsed through the collection, the photos of movie stars and celebrities brought back many memories of Detroitâs own Hollywood insider and his weekday afternoon showings of old movies in the 1960âs-1970âs.
Actor Kirk Douglas and Kennedy in 1961.
Willard A. Kennedy was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, on June 27, 1908, and began his media career in Cleveland in 1935 as a radio sports announcer. A year later, he became a Hollywood commentator at WWJ Radio in Detroit and continued that work until 1940. An acting career was calling, so he decided to move to Hollywood. For the next 13 years, he found roles as minor characters in a variety of movies, but never found the leading man role that would truly launch his acting career. In 1953, he came back to Detroit and had a short run on WWJ TV as Your Hollywood Host. He returned to Hollywood in 1954-55 for a second try in acting, but that did not work out so he came back to Detroit in 1956. Shortly after his return, he found his niche at CKLW (Channel 9, Windsor) as the movie host for Bill Kennedyâs Showtime. The popular show ran until 1969 when Kennedy moved to WKBD (Channel 50, Southfield) and he continued in the same role as the movie host for Bill Kennedy at the Movies. He remained at WKBD until his retirement in 1983.
Actor Clint Eastwood with Kennedy in 1971.
Although he never achieved Hollywood stardom, he had worked with many of the well-known film stars of the 1930âs-1950âs. In addition, since childhood, he had collected Hollywood memorabilia and autographed photos. He continued to add to his collection during his Hollywood days and had accumulated nearly 300,000 photos in his âFabulous Files.â (He later donated this collection to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1987.) His inside knowledge about the business provided many background stories which captivated his audiences for nearly three decades. During show breaks, he offered his personal memories of Hollywood along with show business news, movie trivia, phone calls from viewers, and interviews with stars/celebrities.
A sampling of some of the stars and celebrities that Kennedy interviewed over the years included:
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Bill Kennedy spent his retirement years in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he died on January 27, 1997.
 Bill Kennedy at the Movies Last summer, were pleased to receive approximately 150 photos from the grandniece of popular Detroit movie host, Bill KennedyâŠ
#Bill Kennedy#Detroit#History#Joe Louis#kirk douglas#clint eastwood#gloria swanson#marlo thomas#sir graves ghastly#The Supremes#Diana Ross#florence ballard#Mary Wilson#Louis Armstrong#sammy davis jr#colonel sanders#Soupy Sales#bob hope#Guy lombardo#Ann B. Davis
11 notes
·
View notes
Text
Holidays 6.22
Holidays
Anti-Fascist Resistance Day (Croatia)
American Radio Relay League Field Day
Auto Race Day
B Kinder Day
Captain America Conversion Day
Day of Mourning and Commemoration of War Victims (Ukraine)
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)
Day of the Farmer (DĂa del Campesino; Colombia)
Department of Justice Day (US)
Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
Fatherâs Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey)
Festival of Manifest Destiny
Festival of 1 Lithe (in The Hobbit)
Fixture Release Dat (UK)
Flaming of the Rose (Armenia)
International Day of Radiant Peace
International Fangirl Day
Listen To A Child Day
Morat Commemoration Day (a.k.a. SolennitÀt; Switzerland)
National HVAC Tech Day
National Counsellorsâ Day (UK)
National Kitchen Porter Day (UK)
National Prevent Pet Choking Day
No Panty Day
Organic Act Day (Virgin Islands) [original date]
Oscar Peterson Day (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Positive Media Day
Rare Chromo Day
Remembrance Day of Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)
Soap Microphone Day
Solmanudor (Iceland)
Speedwell Day (French Republic)
Stupid Guy Thing Day
Summerween (Gravity Falls)
Teacherâs Day (El Salvador)
Windrush Day (UK)
World Bathing Day
World Camel Day
World Osteopathy Day
World Rainforest Day
Worldâs Largest Swim Lesson Day
World Wide VW Beetle Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Chocolate Eclair Day
Dairy Queen Day
Hard Core Pub Crawl Day
National Limoncello Day
National Onion Rings Day
National Radler Day
4th Thursday in June
RSE Day (UK) [4th Thursday]
Independence Days
Dayane (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Salanda (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Aaron of Aleth (Christian; Saint)
Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain (commemoration, Anglicanism)
Bouphoria (Ox Sacrifice symbolizing dissolving/restoring social order; Ancient Greece)
Dragon Boat Festival [5th Day of 5th Lunar Month] (a.k.a. ...Â
Double Fifth Festival
Dragon Boast Festival (Taiwan)
Duanwu Jie Festival (ç«Żćè; China)
Tuen Ng (Hong Kong, Macau
Eusebius of Samosata (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Humphrey Ocean (Artology)
Innocent V, Pope (Christian; Blessed)
John Fisher (Catholic Church)
Kali Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Marinara Sauce Day (Pastafarian)
Nicetas of Remesiana (Christian; Saint)
Oskar Fischinger (Artology)
Paulinus of Nola (Christian; Saint)
Thomas More (Catholic Church)
Villers (Positivist; Saint)
Whiner Tutter (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [24 of 53]
Prime Number Day: 173 [40 of 72]
Sakimake (ć
èČ Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Unlucky Day (Graftonâs Manual of 1565) [32 of 60]
Premieres
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Film; 2012)
American Gothic (TV Series; 2016)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (WB Animated Film; 2021)
Blue, by Joni Mitchell (Album; 1971)
Boston Quackie (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)
Brave (Animated Disney Film; 2012)
Buddyâs Bug Hunt (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)
The Busy Beavers (Disney Cartoon; 1931)
Classical Gas, by Mason Williams (Song; 1968)
Evan Almighty (Film; 2007)
Exile In Guyville, by Liz Phair (Album; 1993)
The Fast and the Furious (Film; 2001) [F&F #1]
Fingertips, by Little Stevie Wonder (Song; 1963)
Franks Wild Years, by Tom Waits (Stage Play; 1986)
Good For You, by Selena Gomez (Song; 2015)
The Guns of Navarone (Film; 1961)
Herbie: Fully Loaded (Film; 2005)
The Howdy Doody Show (TV Series; 1947)
I, The King, by Frances Parkinson Keyes (Historical Novel; 1966)
I Walk the Line, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1964)
John Wesley Harding, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1967)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Film; 2018)
The Karate Kid (Film; 1984)
Lady and the Tramp (Animated Disney Film; 1955)
Life on Mars, by David Bowie (Song; 1973)
The Lone Ranger (Film; 2013)
A Midsummerâs Night Dream (Film; 2015)
The Muppet Movie (US Film; 1979)
New York, New York (Film; 1977)
On the Waterfront (Film; 1954)
The Rescuers (Animated Disney Film; 1977)
Rhinestone (Film; 1984)
Rust Never Sleeps, by Neil Young (Live Album; 1979)
Scooby-Doo! And the Loch Ness Monster (WB Animated Film; 2004)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Film; 2012)
Show Boat (Broadway Musical; 1927)
Significant Other, by Limp Bizkit (Album; 1999)
Simply Irresistible, by Robert Palmer (Song; 1988)
Songs of Leonard Cohen, by Leonard Cohen (Album; 1967)
Top Secret! (Film; 1984)
Traffic (UK TV Mini-Series; 1989)
Whatâs New Pussycat (Film; 1965)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Animated Film; 1988)
Whoâs Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Film; 1966)
Wild in the Country (Film; 1961)
Wild Strawberries (Film; 1959)
Wipe Out, by the Sufaris (Song; 1963)
Todayâs Name Days
Paulinus, Thomas (Austria)
Goryan, Goryana (Bulgaria)
Ivan, Paulin, Toma (Croatia)
Pavla (Czech Republic)
Liina, Liine, Paula, Pauliine (Estonia)
Liina, Paula, Pauliina (Finland)
Alban (France)
Eberhard, Rotraud, Thomas (Germany)
Efsevios, Zinas (Greece)
Paulina (Hungary)
Flavio, Paolino (Italy)
Laimdots, Ludmila, Paija (Latvia)
Inocentas, Kaributas, Laima (Lithuania)
HĂ„kon, Maud (Norway)
Achacjusz, Achacy, Agenor, Alban, Broniwoj, Flawiusz, Innocenta, Innocenty, KiryĆ, Paulina (Poland)
Eusebie, Grigorie (RomĂąnia)
Maria (Russia)
PaulĂna (Slovakia)
Albano, Paulino, TomĂĄs (Spain)
Paula, Paulina (Sweden)
Alban, Albin, Albion, Nereida, Nerida, Nerissa (USA)
Today is AlsoâŠ
Day of Year: Day 174 of 2024; 192 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 25 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 11 of 28]
Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 5 (Xin-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 3 Tammuz 5783
Islamic: 3 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444
J Cal: 23 Sol; Twosday [23 of 30]
Julian: 9 June 2023
Moon: 18%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 5 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Villers]
Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 13 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 2 of 94)
Zodiac: Cancer (Day 2 of 31)
0 notes
Text
Holidays 6.22
Holidays
Anti-Fascist Resistance Day (Croatia)
American Radio Relay League Field Day
Auto Race Day
B Kinder Day
Captain America Conversion Day
Day of Mourning and Commemoration of War Victims (Ukraine)
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)
Day of the Farmer (DĂa del Campesino; Colombia)
Department of Justice Day (US)
Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
Fatherâs Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey)
Festival of Manifest Destiny
Festival of 1 Lithe (in The Hobbit)
Fixture Release Dat (UK)
Flaming of the Rose (Armenia)
International Day of Radiant Peace
International Fangirl Day
Listen To A Child Day
Morat Commemoration Day (a.k.a. SolennitÀt; Switzerland)
National HVAC Tech Day
National Counsellorsâ Day (UK)
National Kitchen Porter Day (UK)
National Prevent Pet Choking Day
No Panty Day
Organic Act Day (Virgin Islands) [original date]
Oscar Peterson Day (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Positive Media Day
Rare Chromo Day
Remembrance Day of Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)
Soap Microphone Day
Solmanudor (Iceland)
Speedwell Day (French Republic)
Stupid Guy Thing Day
Summerween (Gravity Falls)
Teacherâs Day (El Salvador)
Windrush Day (UK)
World Bathing Day
World Camel Day
World Osteopathy Day
World Rainforest Day
Worldâs Largest Swim Lesson Day
World Wide VW Beetle Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Chocolate Eclair Day
Dairy Queen Day
Hard Core Pub Crawl Day
National Limoncello Day
National Onion Rings Day
National Radler Day
4th Thursday in June
RSE Day (UK) [4th Thursday]
Independence Days
Dayane (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Salanda (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Aaron of Aleth (Christian; Saint)
Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain (commemoration, Anglicanism)
Bouphoria (Ox Sacrifice symbolizing dissolving/restoring social order; Ancient Greece)
Dragon Boat Festival [5th Day of 5th Lunar Month] (a.k.a. ...Â
Double Fifth Festival
Dragon Boast Festival (Taiwan)
Duanwu Jie Festival (ç«Żćè; China)
Tuen Ng (Hong Kong, Macau
Eusebius of Samosata (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Humphrey Ocean (Artology)
Innocent V, Pope (Christian; Blessed)
John Fisher (Catholic Church)
Kali Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Marinara Sauce Day (Pastafarian)
Nicetas of Remesiana (Christian; Saint)
Oskar Fischinger (Artology)
Paulinus of Nola (Christian; Saint)
Thomas More (Catholic Church)
Villers (Positivist; Saint)
Whiner Tutter (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [24 of 53]
Prime Number Day: 173 [40 of 72]
Sakimake (ć
èČ Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Unlucky Day (Graftonâs Manual of 1565) [32 of 60]
Premieres
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Film; 2012)
American Gothic (TV Series; 2016)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (WB Animated Film; 2021)
Blue, by Joni Mitchell (Album; 1971)
Boston Quackie (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)
Brave (Animated Disney Film; 2012)
Buddyâs Bug Hunt (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)
The Busy Beavers (Disney Cartoon; 1931)
Classical Gas, by Mason Williams (Song; 1968)
Evan Almighty (Film; 2007)
Exile In Guyville, by Liz Phair (Album; 1993)
The Fast and the Furious (Film; 2001) [F&F #1]
Fingertips, by Little Stevie Wonder (Song; 1963)
Franks Wild Years, by Tom Waits (Stage Play; 1986)
Good For You, by Selena Gomez (Song; 2015)
The Guns of Navarone (Film; 1961)
Herbie: Fully Loaded (Film; 2005)
The Howdy Doody Show (TV Series; 1947)
I, The King, by Frances Parkinson Keyes (Historical Novel; 1966)
I Walk the Line, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1964)
John Wesley Harding, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1967)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Film; 2018)
The Karate Kid (Film; 1984)
Lady and the Tramp (Animated Disney Film; 1955)
Life on Mars, by David Bowie (Song; 1973)
The Lone Ranger (Film; 2013)
A Midsummerâs Night Dream (Film; 2015)
The Muppet Movie (US Film; 1979)
New York, New York (Film; 1977)
On the Waterfront (Film; 1954)
The Rescuers (Animated Disney Film; 1977)
Rhinestone (Film; 1984)
Rust Never Sleeps, by Neil Young (Live Album; 1979)
Scooby-Doo! And the Loch Ness Monster (WB Animated Film; 2004)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Film; 2012)
Show Boat (Broadway Musical; 1927)
Significant Other, by Limp Bizkit (Album; 1999)
Simply Irresistible, by Robert Palmer (Song; 1988)
Songs of Leonard Cohen, by Leonard Cohen (Album; 1967)
Top Secret! (Film; 1984)
Traffic (UK TV Mini-Series; 1989)
Whatâs New Pussycat (Film; 1965)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Animated Film; 1988)
Whoâs Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Film; 1966)
Wild in the Country (Film; 1961)
Wild Strawberries (Film; 1959)
Wipe Out, by the Sufaris (Song; 1963)
Todayâs Name Days
Paulinus, Thomas (Austria)
Goryan, Goryana (Bulgaria)
Ivan, Paulin, Toma (Croatia)
Pavla (Czech Republic)
Liina, Liine, Paula, Pauliine (Estonia)
Liina, Paula, Pauliina (Finland)
Alban (France)
Eberhard, Rotraud, Thomas (Germany)
Efsevios, Zinas (Greece)
Paulina (Hungary)
Flavio, Paolino (Italy)
Laimdots, Ludmila, Paija (Latvia)
Inocentas, Kaributas, Laima (Lithuania)
HĂ„kon, Maud (Norway)
Achacjusz, Achacy, Agenor, Alban, Broniwoj, Flawiusz, Innocenta, Innocenty, KiryĆ, Paulina (Poland)
Eusebie, Grigorie (RomĂąnia)
Maria (Russia)
PaulĂna (Slovakia)
Albano, Paulino, TomĂĄs (Spain)
Paula, Paulina (Sweden)
Alban, Albin, Albion, Nereida, Nerida, Nerissa (USA)
Today is AlsoâŠ
Day of Year: Day 174 of 2024; 192 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 25 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 11 of 28]
Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 5 (Xin-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 3 Tammuz 5783
Islamic: 3 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444
J Cal: 23 Sol; Twosday [23 of 30]
Julian: 9 June 2023
Moon: 18%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 5 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Villers]
Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 13 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 2 of 94)
Zodiac: Cancer (Day 2 of 31)
0 notes
Photo
Afternoon TV - June 1971Â - Stephan Schnabel - The Guiding Light
#afternoon tv#afternoon tv june 1971#stephan schnabel#the guiding light#guiding light#italy#rogaro italy#1971#1970s soap opera#soap opera
5 notes
·
View notes