Remember It's just an honor to wins your Oscar pool - actual betting on the results of the Oscars is illegal in most states.
Did you forgot to set the clock ahead - we'll wait (while we madly dash around the house ourselves.) Here's a short film explaining Daylight Saving Time -
Do you need some more time (did you get the clock on the microwave? None of you still have a VCR?) - here's another opinion on the matter by Lewis Black:
Alright, you can either continue reading or go back to bed for an hour.
Remember - you'll have one less hour for drinking today - start earlier.
Every year March 10th is the Festival of Life in the Cracks Day, celebrating the first signs of spring weather, such as the green sprouts sprouting from cracks in the pavement. (Spring is in 9 days)
It a nice way to honor the rebirth and renewal in life, and see beauty and life everywhere as well.
Today is also International Day of Awesomeness. It's a day for celebrating all things awesome, and everything awesome that you, your friends, and everybody else does.
It's also the birthday of Chuck Norris
Anyway that's what I read on the interweb.
March 10, 1938 -
Bette Davis won her second Academy Award and re-ignited her sagging career when Jezebel, premiered in New York City on this date.
Bette Davis came to the realization that William Wyler was a very special director when he insisted she come view the dailies with him, something she had never done with any other director before. They watched a scene where her character was coming down a staircase, a scene that had really irritated Davis, as she couldn't understand why Wyler wanted to film it over 30 times. Watching the rushes, however, she saw one of the takes in which he had captured a fleeting, devil-may-care expression that summed her character up perfectly. After that, she happily accepted however many takes Wyler wanted.
March 10, 1956 -
The musical adaptation of the play High Tor, starring Bing Crosby, Nancy Olsen and Julie Andrews (in her TV debut) aired on the Ford Star Jubilee program on CBS, on this date.
Stephen Sondheim also set a musical version of the play High Tor, but Maxwell Anderson refused permission, so the Sondheim musical adaptation was never produced. Subsequent copyright extension acts mean the Stephen Sondheim music will be illegal until 2042.
March 10, 1958 -
Big Records released the single, Our Song, by a teenage duo from Queens, New York, Tom and Jerry, on this date.
The duo in a few years will become famous in the '60s under their real names, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
March 10, 1960 -
The crime thriller based on the novel The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, Purple Noon starring Alain Delon, and directed by René Clément, opened in France, on this date.
Author Patricia Highsmith, expressed satisfaction with the film, which she called "very beautiful to the eye and interesting for the intellect," and with Alain Delon's performance as Tom Ripley. She was, however, disappointed with the film's ending, calling it "a terrible concession to so-called public morality."
March 10, 1972 -
Peter Bogdanovich's valentine to screwball comedies, What's Up, Doc?, starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, and Madeline Kahn, premiered in the US on this date
This film was morphed from the screen adaptation of Herman Raucher's novel, A Glimpse of Tiger. It was to star Elliott Gould and Kim Darby and be directed by Anthony Harvey but Gould behaved erratically during production and, after four days, walked off the set. The project eventually came into the hands of Peter Bogdanovich, who, conceiving it as a remake of Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby switched the genders of the lead couple, making the wild, unpredictable Gould character a woman, who would be played, coincidentally, by Gould's ex-wife Barbra Streisand.
March 10, 1972 -
Universal Pictures released the science fiction film Silent Running, directed by Douglas Trumbull (who just passed away last week,) and starring Bruce Dern, on this date.
The decommissioned Essex-class aircraft carrier "Valley Forge," a veteran of Korea and Vietnam, served as the interior of the space freighter "Valley Forge." The flight control area and hangar deck of the carrier were modified and painted to represent the space freighter in the film. The carrier was scrapped after filming was complete.
March 10, 1977 -
The TV movie A Circle of Children, starring Jane Alexander, Rachel Roberts, and David Ogden Stiers and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken premiered on CBS TV, on this date.
The film was one of the first to deal sympathetically with the issue of autism
March 10, 1978 -
TV audiences get to see for the first time, the trials and tribulations of Dr David (and not Bruce) Banner and his travels to find the cure for his gamma ray exposure accident when The Incredible Hulk, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin and Lou Ferrigno, premiered on CBS TV on this date.
First appearance of the Hulk making his escape by breaking through a wall and running down an alley (wearing blue pants). This scene was re-used many times over the course of the series.
March 10, 1979 –
Poco's single Crazy Love went to No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary charts on this date.
Crazy Love was the first single by Poco to reach the Top 40 and remained the group's biggest hit.
March 10, 1983 –
Despite the production value and Michael Jackson's star quality, MTV didn't play the video Billie Jean until the song was already a #1 hit. Les Garland, who ran the network at the time, claims that they loved the video and played it as soon as they could, but interviews with executives at Jackson's record company and with others familiar with the matter suggest otherwise.
In the book I Want My MTV, multiple sources who worked at MTV claimed that the network wanted to air the Beat It video first, because Eddie Van Halen played on it and the song fit their format. Walter Yetnikoff, who was head of CBS Records (Jackson's was signed to its subsidiary, Epic), recalls threatening to pull all CBS videos from MTV if they didn't play Billie Jean. He says he threatened to bring Jackson's producer Quincy Jones in on it as well, and the network acquiesced. MTV broadcasted the video of Michael Jackson’s song Billie Jean for the first time, on this date.
When MTV started playing the clip, it was first put in medium rotation, then promoted to heavy rotation when viewers loved it. The video for this song is often credited with breaking the color barrier on MTV. When the video for Beat It was delivered, that one also went into hot rotation. For a two-month stretch in the summer of 1983, both videos were getting constant airplay, establishing Jackson as a video star. His next video effort was for Thriller, which revolutionized the form.
March 10, 1989 -
Terry Gilliam's fourth film, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, starring John Neville, Eric Idle, Uma Thurman, and a whole bunch of other people, premiered on this date.
With delays and postponements, the film was already $2 million over budget before a single frame had been shot.
March 10, 1994 -
The surprise Australian independent hit, Muriel's Wedding, starring Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, and Bill Hunter went into limited release in the US on this date.
Bill Hunter was filming The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Muriel's Wedding at the same time, each requiring him to have different length hair, beard and to be in different parts of the country. Both films developed international cult followings and prominently featured the music of ABBA.
March 10, 1997 -
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Geller premiered on WB Television Network on this date.
Entertainment Weekly magazine named Buffy the number three character of all time, coming behind Homer Simpson and Harry Potter. (issue #1105/1106, June 4/11, 2010).
Another book from the back shelves of The ACME Library
Today in History:
March 10, 1876 -
It was on this date in 1876 that Alexander Graham Bell (Don Ameche) conducted the first successful experiment on a radical new technology. He put a "transmitter" in one room of his home and a "receiver" in another. He connected them with wire. He then shouted into the mouthpiece of the transmitter, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
A moment later, his assistant, who had been waiting in the room with the receiver, came into Bell's room and said he had heard and understood everything.
When Alexander Graham Bell finished his invention of the telephone, he noticed he had two missed calls from Chuck Norris.
The invention didn't enjoy much commercial success because the market for persons with out-of-earshot assistants named Watson was not as large as Bell had hoped, but it did serve as a major stepping-stone to one of Bell's most significant inventions, the Watson Detonator.
March 10, 1914 –
At London’s National Gallery, suffragette Mary Richardson slashes Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver: “I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs. Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history. Justice is an element of beauty as much as colour and outline on canvas. Mrs. Pankhurst seeks to procure justice for womanhood, and for this she is being slowly murdered by a Government of Iscariot politicians.” — her statement was published in The Times, London, the next day.
Emmeline Pankhurst and other members of the militant Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), while serving sentences for their activities, went on hunger strikes to protest the horrible conditions at Holloway Prison; the government begins violent force-feedings to prevent them from dying as martyrs.
March 10, 1948 -
The State owned Communist newspaper reported that the Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk was thrown from a window at his apartment in Prague under mysterious circumstances on this date.
Authorities rule his death was a "suicide" and then decide to rule the death as accidentally because he seems to have "fallen while sitting in a yoga position on a window sill to combat insomnia". But most likely he was suffocated first, judging from the fact that he had lost control of his bowels and the deep nail marks on the window sill.
I hate when that happens.
March 10, 1948 -
...By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future....
Author and artist, Zelda Fitzgerald died in a fire at Highland Hospital, NC, along with eight other inmates on this date.
She was locked in on the 3rd floor while undergoing insulin-induced coma therapy.
I really hate when that happens.
March 10, 1951 -
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover announces that he has turned down an offer to become commissioner of baseball on this date.
The governor of California, Earl Warren, (and soon to be proponent of 'The Magic Single Bullet Theory',) had previously rejected an offer to become baseball's leader. Think how the nation would be different if baseball was able to fit Hoover with a pair of high heel cleats.
March 10, 1977 -
Roman Polanski gave a 13 year old girl Quaaludes and has sex with her during a photo shoot at Jack Nicholson's home on this date. He later fled the country to avoid statutory rape charges.
March 10, 1977 -
Astronomers James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham and Douglas J. Mink discover rings around Uranus on this date.
March 10, 1980 -
Jean Harris shot and killed her unfaithful lover, cardiologist Herman Tarnower, co-author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet in his Purchase N.Y. home on this date.
She was granted clemency on December 31, 1992 by Governor Mario Cuomo after she served 12 years of a 15 year sentence. Harris was released in January 1993. Mrs Harris died in December 2013.
Sometimes, diets make you a little hangry
March 10, 1988 -
An avalanche hit the British royal party including King Charles (Prince of Wales at the time,) as they were ski-ing off piste above the resort of Klosters in Switzerland, on this date.
Charles and several other members of the party, including their guide, were able to ski to safety, but one of the Prince's closest friends Major Hugh Lindsay, former equerry to the Queen is not so lucky.
And so it goes.
No comments:
Post a Comment