We went back to Hooterville (for some reason)

May 18, 1990 –For a reason few people really understand, CBS TV aired the TV film, Return to Green Acres, on this date. It was reported that Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor were extremely close friends during the run of the show and the chemistry between them often showed in scenes where they were in

The finale (for the first time) of Murphy Brown

May 18, 1998 – The final episode (or so we thought) of Murphy Brown, Never Can Say Goodbye, aired on CBS-TV on this date. (The re-boot of the series ran for about a year.) One of the running series jokes was Murphy Brown’s inability to get a good secretary or one that could work with

It’s a boy Mrs. Walker, it’s a boy …

May 17, 1969 –The fourth studio album by The Who, Tommy, a double album, is released in the US on this date. The song, Pinball Wizard, was the last one written for the album. Pete Townshend wrote it, in part, to impress a rock critic named Nik Cohn who was a pinball fanatic. The ploy

In a Lonely Place premiered

May 17, 1950 – Nicholas Ray’s excellent film noir, In a Lonely Place, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame opened on this date. In her essay Humphrey and Bogey, Louise Brooks wrote that more than any other role that Humphrey Bogart played, it was the role of Dixon Steele in this movie that came closest

My Favorite Wife premiered

May 17, 1940 –Garson Kanin’s screwball comedy, My Favorite Wife, opened on this date. Leo McCarey was supposed to direct the film, but shortly before the filming began, he was injured in an automobile accident and had to hand over the direction to Garson Kanin. Gail Patrick has stated that the severity of McCarey’s injuries

Here’s how it all began

May 17, 1792 –24 drunken stock brokers got together outside of 68 Wall Street in New York under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street which earlier was the site of a stockade fence and signed an agreement with two provisions: 1) the brokers were to deal only with each other. Thereby eliminating the auctioneers, and2)

Today is Rubber Band Day.

The day honors Inventor Stephen Perry’s receiving a patent for the rubber band on this date in 1845 (We’ve also seen it listed as March 17th but we can be sure, no one from ACME was there at the time.) (The ACME Corporation is in no way endorsing the sort of behavior depicted below. But

Ah, but how a life goes on

This weekend is all about Godzilla, as she is graduating this weekend. (Photos to be posted later.) But before we go down that path, I’m sure many of you have an iconic photo or moments you all talk about. Going through many pixs to get ready for this weekend, we came across this one –

An album Paul wished he wrote

May 16, 1966 –The Beach Boys released their 11th studio album, Pet Sounds on this date. It has since been recognized as one of the most influential albums in the history of popular music and is widely regarded as one of the best albums of the 1960s. All that beautiful music and barking dogs, too.

The first Oscars were doled out

May 16, 1929 –When the first Academy Awards were handed out on , movies had just begun to talk. That first ceremony took place during an Academy banquet in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. There were 270 people in attendance and guest tickets cost $5. Though this was the first time these