1950 saw the introduction of three of the most successful and longest-running comic strips of all time — “Peanuts,” “Dennis the Menace,” and “Beetle Bailey.” Sparky Schulz passed away in 2000, Hank Ketchum died a year later, and Mort Walker stopped drawing today.
“Big-Foot” in this context means a style of cartooning, and not a tall, hairy creature that roams the wilderness! Forty years ago I visited the Cartoon Museum that Walker had at that time in Port Chester, NY.
Howard Hawks sure did have a way of directing women. These clips from “The Big Sleep” are only a little over a minute long, but that’s all it takes for each of these seductive ladies to practically steal the movie from Lauren Bacall.
Martha Vickers
Dorothy Malone, who died a week ago.
When an outfit like Burger King makes an Internet ad like this, obviously the hope is that it goes viral. I’m sure this post will add at least two more hits to the click count.
https://youtu.be/ltzy5vRmN8Q
I’m grappling with the realization that it’s already been almost fifteen years since I read “Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II,” by Jennet Conant. Alfred Loomis had an astonishing and perhaps unprecedented combination of competencies. Loomis was scientifically gifted and eccentric, yet he excelled in business and he made himself independently wealthy, so he could do whatever he wanted to do. Later, his interests and accomplishments intersected with what had to be done in order for the Allies to win WWII.
This video features Linda Ronstadt in the shiny striped dress with hoop earrings that were made famous by photographer Henry Diltz. It also shows why Capitol Records producer Nick Venet had studio musicians, rather than Linda’s band the Stone Poneys, play on her recording of Mike Nesmith’s song, “Different Drum.”
A while back I was contacted by Gary James, who has a Web site called Classic Bands. He asked to interview Prue Bury, and after checking some of his previous interviews I put him in touch with her. Gary transcribes his interviews, rather than posting audio, and here is the link to his conversation with Prue.
I bought the original print of this photo on an eBay/UK auction. It should be here in a couple of weeks. The Australian seller says the date on the back of the picture is March 4, 1964, which places it during the filming of “A Hard Day’s Night.”
I wrote to Prue and said, “I don’t know what pictures you might be missing in your collection. I’m hoping that seeing this one is a surprise for you. It certainly is for me!” Prue replied, “Very much so! Never seen it before, where did it come from?” I don’t know, but perhaps the seller has more information. I’ve had a similar experience a couple of times, where I was shown a photo of myself I’d never seen before, and I had no recollection of it being taken. One of them was from my business trip in Saudi Arabia. I should see if I can find it.
Something worth emphasizing is that knowing everything I do about Prue, her connection to the Beatles may not be the least interesting thing about her, but it is far from the most interesting. Even Prue’s birth is compelling, with her mother carrying her during the family’s flight from occupied Belgium to England. She was born during the last of the Nazi Blitz attacks on London.
