Crazy Eddie might be back from the dead

Someone has just acquired the rights to the infamous electronics retailer Crazy Eddie name and is plan to make a comeback by opening a store near Penn Station.



Well, you know we have to say it - that's INNSAAAANNNNE


March 11, 1950 -
Homeless Hare, a very funny Bugs Bunny cartoon, was released on this date.



After all, a man's home is his castle.


Today in History -
March 11, 1302 -
Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare



I've seen all of these websites that offer to help you plan a romantic wedding 'just like Romeo and Juliet', does that mean you have to kill yourself shortly after the honeymoon?


March 11, 1669 -
After a series of premonitional earthquakes near Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe spectacularly erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people.




More on the Wacky Russian Revolution
On March 11 the Russian Cabinet finally became indignant and tried to dissolve the Duma, but the Duma refused to dissolve. The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies also refused to dissolve, even though the Cabinet had not asked them to dissolve.



(The Cabinet could not ask them to, because the Cabinet had determined that The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies did not exist.)


The Roxy Theatre in New York City was a 6,214 seat movie theater at 153 West 50th Street at 7th Avenue, opened on March 11, 1927 by Samuel Roxy Rothafel. It was designed by Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager.



The opening night film was The Love of Sunya produced by and starring Gloria Swanson. The Roxy was overshadowed by the opening of Radio City Music Hall in the Rockefeller Center in NYC in 1932.



The Roxy closed and was demolished in 1960, and Swanson was famously photographed on October 14, 1960 by Time-Life photographer Eliot Elisofon in the midst of the ruins during the theater's demolition.


March 11, 1931 -
F. W. Murnau, one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, was out for a relaxing drive with his fourteen-year old Filipino valet Garcia Stevenson, when Mr. Murnau failed to heed one of the basic tenets of auto safety - it was rumored that Murnau decided to perform fellatio on the young driver.



Mr. Murnau and Mr Stevenson were involved in a car crash and both died on this date. Kids, let this be a lesson to us all - for heaven's sake, please pull over if you decide to fellate the driver of your automobile.


March 11, 1957
Charles Van Doren, darling of the American public, loses to Vivienne Nearing on the rigged TV quiz show Twenty One when both are asked to name the kings of Norway (Olav V) , Denmark (Frederick IX) , Sweden (Gustaf VI Adolf), Jordan (Hussein) , Iraq (Faisal II) , and Belgium (Baudouin).



Doren "missed" - the king of Belgium.


March 11, 1958 -
A B-47 bomber drops a nuclear bomb in the town of Mars Bluff in South Carolina. While it did not detonate a nuclear explosion, conventional explosives within the bomb left a 75 foot crater, destroying one house and damaging five others.


War:Dead' A-Bomb Hits US Town, 13th March 1958

The government has to send out hundreds of 'oops' letters to the town's residents.


March 11, 1970 -
Actress Suzanne Somers arrested (and strip searched!) for writing bad checks.



She was not prosecuted.


And so it goes