|
 |
Before the advent of tiebreakers in tennis, every set needed to be played until one player had won six games with at least a two-game advantage. In the first round of the 1969 Wimbledon tourney, Pancho Gonzales and former NCAA champ Charlie Pasarell needed more than five hours and 112 games to decide a winner in a match spread over two days (June 25 and 26). Here is five minutes of terrific video from that match with original BBC commentary by Dan Maskell. After dropping the first set 22-24, the 41-year-old Gonzales, who was hot-tempered, was irked when play wasn't suspended due to impending darkness. He basically tanked the second set. Nevertheless, Gonzales rallied to win in five sets the next day. The final score was 22-24, 1-6, 16-14, 6-3, 11-9. The 112 games played in a single men's match stood as a Wimbledon record for 41 years. (Note that the electric scoreboard could not handle set scores in the twenties. It shows Pasarell winning the opening set 4-2 instead of 24-22.)
Tags:
Gonzales-Pasarell
Wimbledon
tennis
marathon
Added: 3rd September 2017
Views: 963
Posted By: Lava1964 |
 
|
 |
NHL star Leonard (Red) Kelly was a contestant on an episode of To Tell The Truth in 1962 not just because of his hockey prowess, but also because he had just been elected to Canada's parliament. Can you tell who the real Red Kelly is?
Tags:
Red
Kelly
To
Tell
The
Truth
game
show
hockey
Added: 13th July 2017
Views: 873
Posted By: Lava1964 |
|
|
 |
One of Hollywood's lesser known tragedies was the death of small-time actor James (Bing) Davidson, a 25-year-old Nebraskan who fell to his doom in 1965. Davidson, whose screen credits show just three small roles, was in the company of actor Paul Lynde in San Francisco on July 17, 1965. Lynde was well known to be a heavy drinker; he and Davidson had both heavily imbibed that night. At some point of drunkenness at the Drake Hotel, Davidson decided to demonstrate a daredevil stunt--hanging from a balcony by his fingertips. In full view of several horrified onlookers (and police officers who had been summoned), Davidson lost his grip and fell to his death from the eighth floor of the hotel. Lynde was absolved of any blame, but the incident was hushed up for years as the circumstances surrounding it may have derailed Lynde's acting career.
Tags:
Bing
Davidson
fall
Paul
Lynde
Added: 9th July 2017
Views: 9087
Posted By: Lava1964 |
|
|
 |
Who remembers this Cold War-era movie? Four members of the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes (Bob Crane, John Banner, Leon Askin, and Werner Klemperer) starred alongside the comely Elke Sommer in The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz. The plot has Sommer playing the title character. She's an East German athlete who, while training for the 1968 Olympics, decides to pole vault over the Berlin Wall to freedom in the West. Crane plays an amoral American businessman with black market connections in East Germany who is willing to sell Schultz to either East or West Germany. Banner, Askin and Klemperer all play bumbling East German agents who come to the obvious conclusion that retrieving the sexy pole vaulter would be good for communist propaganda. The film was both a box office and critical disaster. Movie critic Leonard Maltin describes it as 'a laughless dud.'
Tags:
Wicked
Dreams
of
Paula
Schultz
Hogans
Heroes
cast
Added: 14th May 2017
Views: 1085
Posted By: Lava1964 |
|
|
 |
From a 1969 episode of The Carol Burnett Show, Tim Conway hilariously plays an inept, novice dentist in this memorable sketch. Harvey Korman, who plays Conway's first patient, was so overcome by laughter that he literally wet his pants during the routine.
Tags:
Tim
Conway
dentist
Carol
Burnett
Harvey
Kormann
Added: 14th April 2017
Views: 1800
Posted By: Lava1964 |
|
|
 |
Impressionist Rich Little, at the start of his brilliant career, appears on a 1963 episode of The Judy Garland Show.
Tags:
Rich
Little
impressionist
Judy
Garland
Added: 26th July 2016
Views: 2025
Posted By: Lava1964 |
|
|
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 of 255 |
|
|
Display Options
