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Monday, May 10, 2021 at 5:31PM Yes it's time for another round of streaming roulette where we point out titles that are new(ish) to streaming and just for fun, freeze frame them at totally random places in the scroll bar and whatever comes up we share. Let's start with Netflix...
It's too dangerous out there. We need to stay here and play it safe!"
Friday, May 31, 2019 at 11:23AM 15 random things that happened on this day, May 31st, in history as it relates to showbiz...
1279BC Ramasses II becomes Pharoah in ancient egypt. He grows up to look like Yul Brynner in the 1950s. yum.
1057 Lady Godiva takes a naked ride. 898 years later Maureen O'Hara fills her shoes...er... saddle (she weren't wearing no shoes) in an G-rated wig in Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955)
1790 President George Washington signed the first US copyright act into law...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 10:00AM 8 random things that happened on this day (Oct 24th) in showbiz history
1962 The depressingly prescient classic The Manchurian Candidate involving Russian infiltration into the US government arrives in theaters, receive tswo Oscar nominations: Supporting Actress Angela Lansbury (who won the Globe but lost the Oscar -- argh!) and Film Editing. It deserved to win both races and it's so annoying that it didn't make the Best Picture list.
1969 After a few scattered premieres and openings in big cities, the Paul Newman / Robert Redford western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid opens everywhere...
Friday, August 17, 2018 at 9:00AM A dozen random things that happened on this day (Aug 17th) in showbiz history...
1920 Maureen O'Hara born on this day in Dublin. We've written about her frequently. We ♥️.
1934 The first (of many) sound film adaptations of Treasure Island the novel opens in movie theaters starring Oscar winners Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery, along with child star Jackie Cooper, himself already an Oscar nominee...the youngest Best Actor nominee of all time in point of fact. Cooper and Berry had previously co-starred in the instant classic tearjerker The Champ (1931) so the advertising pushed the reunion hard...
Friday, March 17, 2017 at 8:00AM After the jump a gallery of Irish stars or stars pretending to be Irish for the holiday - Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
