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According to a custom that emerged in the British Isles sometime in the nineteenth century, a woman may propose marriage to a man during a leap year. This postcard from 1908 (a leap year) shows a female about to take advantage of the 366-day year and land her man with a butterfly net.
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Added: 25th February 2012
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A first for them, as it was an inevitable attempt at tapping into being original, with the confident narrative details being brought about of not being clearly bitter about having one woman unable to break his swaddled heart.
Sure, most of you think it is timeless,and it did help them grow to be who they are today.
They went the extra mile since arriving in 1962 looking dapper, and due to that, it become the men's career launcher. And with today, it really still stands out as a lone number all in itself. The good thing about it then, it wasn't filled with the wrong message, unlike their other numbers that were yet to be heard. It still got a lot of succeeding attention that allowed it to reach a higher part of the chart (19). And the two undisciplined, partying partners, their attitudes would later toss them into the controversial world we would soon know them for. As well, being accountable for actions that in some ways made them dominate the scene even more then. As you'd expect, I bet some parents tucked away their liking for the boys from their own teens.
Nevertheless, I have it on good authority now, it's so tame to modern standards. You know that.*E*
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Homage
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Catchy
Blues
Radio
America
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Shindig
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December
1964
Businessman
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Added: 5th April 2012
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Remember a bold, but disturbing title from a large, kinda soap opera-like of a story with a very serious approach, concerning a dysfunctional ego turning himself into a powerful dictator in the process? Well? Do you recall Mister Floyd seeking individuals for a reason? That was the backbone to it. What's your take on it? Recall now, how he (the character of Mister Floyd) instructed a large number of youth into anti-social, indecent human beings, adding extremes with raiding streets full of dwellings of vulnerable people. Scary. Especially those who had immigrated to the area that he (Roger W.) had been raised in years before. If I can add an opinion, this reference to it had completely lost me - not until I saw it in the cinema a few years later. Really surprised me at the time, as I had no idea that this was where it was coming from then. Extremely dark and moody. Did you know it was originally set to be a strange picture in the 1st place. Photographs & stylish animation. And a picture that would make Roger W. the star. But after a few demonstrations to select crowds, most would agree, the idea did show that it wasn't connecting with those who were expecting a more capable, recognized person who could play the character. A known performer who was expected to hold his own in the moody story. After many changes, it turned out to be more of a darker, experimental and stranger film than what was first thought of for release. On the surface of its grim setting, a hunt brought on by the sad incorruptibility of one strange but very alternated young man with thoughts of his own. So, with growing up in that kind of environment we know as Britain, Roger W. and David G. got it to become one of their destined (best of 'em). It sure did reveal much at the time of what shaped the two prominent names with the artistic side of interesting cuts they wanted to tell with Rogers frustration at the core of everything that was put to last. It was well-timed for then. I remember it being heard in the following year, all through the summer months. It was invaluable for many then. That summer, of all places, I was at a yearly fair, and I had heard it again and again among the crowds. With looking back at it, with being specific, Roger had said the entire inspiring project was based around his own troubled life as already told through it. True, it was a fictional account of his upbringing. I should mention, it was during the years they (the group), that there were ugly, mean riffs between a few, which apparently has stopped in recent years ('05). Years back, they always moved forward with being downright experimental, since the year Nineteen-Sixty-Five.
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Gilmore
Added: 11th May 2012
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Anyone remember Dagmar? Dagmar Lewis (born Virginia Ruth in 1921) was an American actress, model and television personality of the 1950s. As a statuesque, busty blonde, she became the first major female star of television, receiving much press coverage during that decade.
After her marriage to Angelo Lewis in 1941, she moved to New York where he was a naval officer. She adopted Jennie Lewis as her stage name (taken from her married name, Virginia Lewis). To keep busy, she became a fashion photographer's model--which got the buxom blonde noticed. Although she had no show business experience, she was cast in a Broadway musical revue, Laffing Room Only.
In 1950, Lewis was hired by Jerry Lester as his sidekick for NBC's first late-night TV show: Broadway Open House (1950–52), the forerunner to The Tonight Show. Lester renamed her Dagmar. Billed as "a girl singer," she was instructed to wear a low-cut gown, sit on a stool, and play the role of a stereotypical dumb blonde. No one remembers her ever singing on the show. With tight sweaters displaying her curvy 5'8" figure (measuring 42"-23"-39"), her dim-bulb character was an immediate success, and the show emerged as a surprise hit for NBC. Dagmar soon attracted much more attention than Lester and showed that she was both bright and quick-witted when she appeared in sketches. Lester enjoyed making occasional jokes about her "hidden talents." Her personal appearances created a sensation, leading to much press coverage and a salary increase from $75 to $1,250 per week. With Dagmar getting all the attention, Lester walked off his own show in May 1951, and Dagmar carried on as the program's sole host. On July 16, 1951, she was featured on the cover of Life Magazine. However, Broadway Open House came to an end one month later. Undaunted, Dagmar became one of the leading personalities of early 1950s live television, doing sketch comedy on Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater, The Bob Hope Show, and several other programs. In 1952, she hosted Dagmar's Canteen, a 15-minute program that aired at 12:15 a.m. on Saturday nights. She sang, danced, interviewed servicemen, and performed comedy, but the show was cancelled after just 12 weeks. She died a month before her 80th birthday in 2001.
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Added: 17th June 2012
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Ann Rutherford, the Canadian-born actress who played Careen O'Hara, the older of Scarlett O'Hara's two younger sisters in the 1939 classic film Gone With the Wind, has died. She was 94.
Rutherford, who also portrayed Mickey Rooney's teenage girlfriend in the Andy Hardy movies, died Monday evening, June 11, 2012, at her home in Beverly Hills, said her close friend and fellow actress Anne Jeffreys. Rutherford had recently been in declining health with heart problems.
In her later years, as Rutherford was one of the few surviving cast members of GWTW, she was very much in demand to make public appearances at GWTW-themed events although--by her own admission--her role as Carreen O'Hara was a relatively small and unimportant one. Rutherford appeared in about 60 other Hollywood films.
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Added: 16th June 2012
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In 1976, Eve Plumb, two years removed from The Brady Bunch, played the lead role in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teeange Runaway. It aired on Monday, September 27, 1976. The previous year NBC had been successful with Sarah: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. Accordingly, another movie about bad teen lifestyle choices was made. In this one, Eve Plumb (who was 18 at the time) played Dawn Wetherby, a naive 15-year-old girl who leaves her single-parent, alcoholic, domineering mother for the bright lights of LA. Not long afterwards, she is forced to fend for herself as a street prostitute. The movie was successful enough to merit a sequel called Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn. Because Plumb was committed to her made-for-TV movies, she could not participate in the much-maligned Brady Bunch Variety Hour and avoided that catastrophe.
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Added: 25th June 2012
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Mike Marshall of the Los Angeles Dodgers (shown here on an SI cover) was the National League's Cy Young Award winner in 1974. He finished third in league MVP voting as well. A screwball pitcher, the indefatigable Marshall appeared in 106 games in 1974. Thirteen of those appearances were in consecutive games. Both marks are modern MLB records. Marshall was a bit of an eccentric for his day. He was a student of kinesiology and nearly quit baseball after 1974 to pursue his PhD. He believes that proper mechanics can totally eliminate pitchers' arm injuries. He was also dead set against signing autographs--especially for kids. Why the reluctance to sign? Marshall believed professional baseball players should not be revered as heroic figures by children. (The Cincinnati Reds, the "establishment team" of the 1970s, loathed Marshall because of his no-autograph policy--and because he made the difference in the Dodgers winnng the 1974 NL West title instead of the Reds.) The scarcity of Marshall's autograph makes it valuable and desirable to collectors. More often than not, the rare specimens of it are written as "Dr. Mike Marshall."
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Added: 25th June 2012
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Back in the day, there was a mounting interest in the then much anticipated story put to our local movie houses. Yet if truth be told, it had actually started in April of that year with an album sleeve that I am sure you recall. Hard to miss it. How many tickets (times) did you buy for it then? Audiences like you couldn't get enough. It was largely significant for all of us then - and even now. With now, I always pay particular attention to it on-screen any place. Did you know that it is based on a Nineteen-Seventy-One stage show that had come outta Chicago. Also, the winning format that started it all off, it has since been washed-up repeatedly over the years ahead of the original production. If you had seen the original, you would not have recognized it a few years later. Perhaps, it could of been soundin' pale from what it once was with the clean-up in words and reactions to them. There were parts in the story that I never caught on with til the past couple of years. Parts that were synonymous to being too schooled from greasers who were far too young to know the facts of life. All in all, it became a canvas of the time then with its twenty-four numbers put into moving pictures.
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Added: 12th July 2012
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