White Christmas
The song White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby is the biggest selling song of all-time with over 100 million copies sold. The Song was written by Irving Berlin, a Jewish immigrant who also wrote God Bless America. It was first sung by Crosby in the 1942 movie Holiday Inn. It was released each Christmas for [...]
Stories about Our Christmas Songs
When should Christmas music be started to played for the Holidays? One thought is after Halloween, another is as soon as the weather starts turning colder (living in Maryland this would be around Mid-October) but for most that time starts just after Thanksgiving. We all know and love the following songs, but did you know [...]
Meet The Press
The first airing on television for the News show Meet The Press was on November 6, 1947. The first moderator as well as the show’s creator was journalist Martha Rountree. Ms Rountree would be the moderator until 1953. The first guest was James A. Farley, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Franklin [...]
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout was born on December 1, 1886, the sixth of nine children of John and Lucetta Stout. He was raised in Kansas and as a youth was considered a child prodigy in arithmetic. In 1916 he invented a school banking system, a system for keeping track of the money school children saved in [...]
The Great Stone Face
During the 1920′s Buster Keaton was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, comic actor-directors of the end of the Silent Film Era. Roger Ebert has even called him the “greatest actor-director in the history of the movies”. Keaton’s films during this decade, such as The General or The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr. or [...]
Died Before Their Time
Rudolph Valentino was one of the most popular stars of Silent Films in the 1920′s. When he died at the age of 31 in 1926, it is estimated that 100,000 people attended his funeral in New York. His image as the Latin Lover has lasted for decades. When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean [...]
Stars Wars
Episode I: The Phantom Menace This is the beginning of the story, but the 4th of the movies produced. It tells the story of the discovery of Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One and foresees the beginning of the end of the old Republic and the Jedi Order. Wisdom quote: Yoda: “Fear leads to anger; anger [...]
Gunsmoke – From Radio to Television
It was on September 10, 1955 that the radio show Gunsmoke began its television run. The Radio series voiced by William Conrad as Marshall Matt Dillion began on April 26, 1952 and would remain on CBS radio until June 18, 1961. From the TV premier until the last radio broadcast the program would be on [...]
Her Death Lead to the Downfall of a Clown
If it wasn’t for the people that were around her when she died on September 9, 1921 in San Francisco, the name and the person Virginia Rappe would just be a small fact in the course of history. However, Rappe died after attending a Labor Day party held by Hollywood Silent Film Comic Roscoe ‘Fatty’ [...]
About the Musical Rent
The music Rent is back on Broadway after being absent for nearly three years. 6 things about the musical Rent was first posted on July 25, 2007 and has been slightly updated Rent, written by Jonathan Larson is based on Giacomo Puccini’s classic 1896 opera, La Boheme. It tells the story of struggling young artists [...]
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