11,503 stories by "Trav S.D."
The narration from the opening credits in the first season of the sitcom The Odd Couple has provided the pretext for November 13 being an annual day to celebrate the show. The choice of date…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
I've taken to embracing round anniversaries, so I considered pushing this post on Neil Young (b. 1945) off 'til next year. But who knows if any of us will be here then? And it happens to fit…
November 12 was the birthday of illustrator John R. Neill (1877-1943), primarily associated with L. Frank Baum's Oz books. While W.W. Denslow had illustrated many of Baum's earlier stories, …
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
Starting tooday (November 12, 2024), Torn Page is marking the upcoming centennial birthday of the late, great stage and screen actress Geraldine Page (1924-1987). They'll be screening Page's…
I was honored to give the opening speech on opening night of Glen Heroy's Coney Island Clown Skool at CIUSA last night. Congratulations to him and to all concerned for getting this wonderful…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
The title of our post has to do less with the fact that it's been a good quarter century since the peak of Sinbad (David Adkins, b. 1956) than that the comedian suffered a stroke in 2020 fro…
What do you do when you're inconveniently far from home and have a couple of hours to kill between appointments? I know I'm a dying breed, but I often deal with that predicament by ducking i…
An enthusiasm for 18th century painter, illustrator, and engraver William Hogarth (1697-1764) is one of the million ties that bind my wife and I together. Among other things, Hogarth was kno…
How wonderful that Mabel Normand shares a birthday with Marie Dressler, Snub Pollard, and Ed Wynn! That's an astrological club that kind of makes a little sense! Anyway, having done so many …
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
In 1924 a young man named Don Alvarado (José Ray Paige, 1904-1967) got his first minor role in the silent film Mademoiselle Midnight starring Mae Murray, married Ann Boyar, and became th…
Today is World Freedom Day, he said with a hollow laugh. As of November 5, the prospects for genuine individual liberty anywhere in the world seem very dim indeed, and likely will be until l…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
I've taken an unconscionably long time in generating a dedicated post on June Havoc (Â Ellen Evangeline Hovick, 1912-2010). I'm sure it's because she was mentioned in my post about her sis…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
Man, am I grateful that today is the birthday of Alice Bag (Alicia "Alice" Armendariz, b. 1958). This is an especially good time to celebrate a radical Mexican punk woman, not that there's e…
Thanks, Eve Golden, for making me aware of Gordon Westcott (Myrthus Hansen Hickman, 1903-1935) about a year ago. Oh, I'd seen plenty of his movies, but I'd not noted the name. Essentially, h…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
Thanks, Eve Golden, for passing along the intel about the passing of Jonathan Haze (Jack Schachter, 1929-2024). You may think there's something kind of wrong about eulogizing him here today,…
How perfect that Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) shared a birthday with Will Rogers, for they were both among the most trusted, beloved and admired Americans of their day. Cronkite was the ancho…
