Time Will Tell: Tony Curtis

Saturday, September 29, 2012

September 29th

September 29 is the 273rd day of the year. There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year.

480BCE Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.

1650 Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.

1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)

1954 "A Star Is Born" makes its world premiere in Hollywood.

1959 "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" debuts on CBS-TV, but the love of a friend with benefits counts more...

1960 "My Three Sons" starring Don Grady as Robbie, debuts on ABC-TV

1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, goes ape shit crazy at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts ... Small shoe=small feet=?

1963 "Judy Garland Show" debuts on CBS-TV

1966 The Chevy Camaro is introduced (model year 1967) and becomes a status symbol in trailer parks across America.

1976 Boy George expelled from school for a variety of reasons, but officially for wearing stiletto heels.

1982 Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide permanently relieve minor aches and pains for 7 people in Chicago

1982 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV

1985 "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV

1986 "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS

1991 "My Own Private Idaho" premieres

2006 US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.

1905 Ted de Corsia, gay US actor

1942 Ian McShane, English actor

1948 Mark Farner, US musician/Grand Funk Railroad

1957 Andrew “Dice” Clay [Silverstein], US comic/actor

1961 Tom Sizemore, US actor

1974 Alexis Cruz, maybe gay US actor

1976 Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian soccer player

1977 Won Bin, Korean model/singer

1980 Zachary Levi [Pugh], maybe gay US actor/Chuck

1989 Danny Noriega, gay US American Idol contestant

1970 Edward Everett Horton, gay US actor, finds his fairy tale life fractured

1973 Wystan Hugh Auden, gay English-born US poet, goes forth on the frontier.

2010 Tony Curtis, bisexual US actor (Defiant Ones, Some Like It Hot, Spartacus), plays it to the bone.

Sunday, June 03, 2012

June 3rd

June 3 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 201 days remaining until the end of time.

1851 1st baseball uniforms worn, New York Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt and blue long trousers. Of course, they look better out of uniform.

1856 Cullen Whipple patents screw machine. Here it is in theory and in practice.

1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional. Back to work, you little crumbsnatchers!

1946 1st bikini bathing suit is displayed in Paris, but not perfected until decades later for men

1968 Valerie Solanas, American feminist activist and author (Society for Cutting Up Men), shoots American artist, Andy Warhol. She probably shouted "R. E. S. P. E. C. T. find out what it means to me" It is interesting to note that our own, dear Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy is a charter member.

1976 Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes gold. I see a little silhouett-o of a man.

2006 The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence and reclaiming her maiden name. But think of the children!

1901 Maurice Evans, maybe gay English actor

1903 Eddie Acuff, maybe gay US actor

1906 Josephine Baker, bisexual STLMO-born US cabaret/concert entertainer

1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Herschel Schwartz], bisexual US actor

1926 Allen Ginsberg, gay US poet who saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical, naked drag themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix...