Saturday, June 22, 2013

THE STORY OF A CHAMPION

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Gower Champion's  birthday would have been today. His death came from a rare blood cancer and he secumbed at the tender age of sixty...
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Monday, April 08, 2013

WE REMEMBER ANNETTE

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Annette Funicello was a champion. She was an amazing entertainer with a charm, a wit and a smile that few stars have. She was perhaps ...
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Monday, April 01, 2013

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF TWO GREAT FILMS

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Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the classic Hitchcock film "The Birds" that starred now 83 year old Tipi Hedren and Rod S...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

RONALD REAGAN ALMOST KILLED ON THIS DAY

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We anticipate another Easter Day on Sunday and yet this is a pretty amazing day in history. For on this day in 1981 A president just elect...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

WE STARTED A WAR AND THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL

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On this the feast of Saint Joseph and also the anniversary of the first Daylight Savings Time in 1918 enacted by Congress is also the t...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

THIS TRIUMPH IS A DISASTER

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The Carnival folks have done it again. Once again, a Carnival Cruise Line is in trouble. This time it's their ship called THE TRIUMPH. T...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

A COINCIDENCE? MAYBE NOT

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    Well, the pope has resigned. He is the first pope to resign in six hundred years and wasn't it funny that lightning hit the...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

I ALWAYS THOUGHT NEW YORKERS WERE ODD, BUT THESE GUYS...

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Now we've all heard of this great big snow storm/ blizzard that's hit New York City and the North East with a unbelievable blizz...
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Thursday, February 07, 2013

A RESPONSE FROM THE FIRED WAITRESS

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    Remember the story of The Applebee waitress who was fired after Pastor Aliso Bell complained after her receipt in which she cro...
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Monday, February 04, 2013

BINLADEN LAND? (SAY IT ISN:T SO)

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Everyone knows the house and land in Pakistan where Bin Laden met his just demise. I read this morning that they are planning to build an ...
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Saturday, February 02, 2013

THE GROUND HOG HAS SPOKEN

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Let's hear it for Phil, the world famous ground hog who just today, February 2nd, 2013  did NOT see his shadow and that means t...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

THE LAST OF THE ANDREW SISTERS

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

EVEN THE POPE CAN HAVE A BAD DAY!

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It seems even the Pope can have a bad day. Pope Benedict the IV was preparing a blessing in remembrance of the Hallocaust  for the Ca...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

GOLDEN HORSESHOE TRIBUTE

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                                                                     The Golden Horseshoe Revue was a classic and beloved daily stage s...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

WE REMEMBER THE CHALLENGER

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                                                                 On this day in 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the first...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

CAN YOU BELIEVE A DISNEY PARK COVERED IN SNOW?

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                                                                        I thought I would share these pictures with all of you because i...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

A PHANTOM TURNS TWENTY-FIVE

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Congratulations are in order on this date. And kudos also to composer Andrew  Lyold Webber, A milestone previously unthinkable in Amer...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

A GREAT BIG ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY

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Think of what you'd wish for if you found Alladan's magic lamp and was able to make just one wish.  Well, back on this date, it wa...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

REMEMBERING MY HERO< ROBERT SHERMAN

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Last Sunday morning, my writing partner and I (John Nugent) went to Hillside Memorial Cemetary for the uncovering of the memorial grave ma...
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

JANUARY 2013 NEWS

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We wait now for some developments to occur. Lainie Kazan is reading our screenplay version of "First Mother" and we have a num...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

ANNIVERSARY OF PROHIBITION

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Can you imagine that on this date way back in 1919, Prohibition came into effect. Indeed it did. Big mistake. But government tends to do t...
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