Orson Welles lived a life filled with accomplishment. At the age of 20, he presented a version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, reworked in a Haitian setting with the three witches as voodoo priestesses. The production was highly praised for its originality. In 1938, he gained international fame when he frightened the entire country with his radio …
Donna Reed’s career ran the full spectrum from her humble beginnings opposite Mickey Rooney in The Courtship of Andy Hardy to her popularity as a pin-up girl during World War II to her Academy Award-winning performance as prostitute Lorene Burke in 1953’s From Here to Eternity. Network executives must have been focusing on her role as …
Stanley Adams was a television staple for three decades, appearing in numerous roles in countless series. He was cast in parts as diverse as policemen and bartenders to con men and aliens. Among his more than a hundred guest spots, he played Otis the drunk’s equally-soused brother in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, a time …
Hungarian-born Michael Curtiz was one of the most prolific directors that ever worked in Hollywood. He directed over one hundred films beginning with The Third Degree in 1926, just after his arrival in America. (He directed nearly a hundred films in his native Hungary). As the 20s became the 30s, Michael was cranking out five …
Nine-year old June Preisser, along with her sister Cherry, performed as child acrobats from their hometown of New Orleans to New York City, to the famous music halls of Paris, Berlin and London. They even were given an audience with King George of England. Their act caught the interest of show-biz impresario Florenz Ziegfeld and …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “mail”. Everyone knows the creed of the United States Postal Service, right? Say it with me… “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” Wrong. The United States Postal Service has no official creed or …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “phenomenon”. On the evening of October 28, 2005, both the New York City Office of Emergency Management and the city’s 311 system (the non-emergency municipal services center) were flooded with calls from panicked Manhattan residents. The frantic callers told of the overwhelming aroma of maple syrup permeating the air. While most …
I have spent years expanding my blog with observances of the quirkiness of my surroundings, chronicling the deaths of those once celebrated and now forgotten, stories from my past and, of course, my silly drawings. In that time, I presented my opinioned views on religion, of both my own and those of which I am not a …
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Here is the third in a series of pigs playing the banjo. (Inspired by the Dueling Banjo Pigs website.) My annual Christmas music compilation is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for a limited time. 26 unusual songs, an annoying BONUS track and a custom full-color cover with track listings all for you and for …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “prehistoric”. Gronk proudly displays his prehistoric robot to the astonishment of his fellow cave-dwellers. My annual Christmas music compilation is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for a limited time. 26 unusual songs, an annoying BONUS track and a custom full-color cover with track listings all for …
