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OTD 1987: Patrick Stewart films his first scene as Dixon Hill for Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Big Goodbye."
#StarTrek
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Jamie Lee Curtis lleva 42 años casada con el mismo hombre, y hace unos años se atrevió a decir en voz alta lo que casi nadie admite sobre un matrimonio tan largo: “Si me dices que alguien que lleva mucho tiempo casado nunca ha pensado ‘los odio, quiero salir de esto’, claro que lo ha pensado. Creo que si te quedas en el autobús el tiempo suficiente, el paisaje cambia”.
Lo dijo sobre su matrimonio con Christopher Guest, el actor y director con el que se casó en diciembre de 1984, después de solo cuatro meses juntos, en casa de Rob Reiner. La historia de cómo llegaron hasta ahí tiene su propia gracia: ella vio la foto de él en un ejemplar de Rolling Stone mientras lo hojeaba con una amiga, señaló la imagen y dijo “voy a casarme con ese hombre”. Llamó a su agente y dejó su número. Él no la llamó. Se acabaron encontrando en un restaurante, Hugo’s, y ahí empezó todo, con él trabajando en Saturday Night Live y ella viviendo buena parte de esos primeros meses a distancia.
Cuando a Guest le preguntaron por la frase del autobús, no dijo nada solemne ni romántico. Dijo: “Depende de qué autobús”. Y esa respuesta, más que la de ella, es la que explica cómo han aguantado 42 años: sin dramatizar lo que les ha costado, sin fingir que todo ha sido fácil, soltando una broma justo en el momento en que cualquiera esperaría una declaración de amor.
Han tenido dos hijas, Annie y Ruby, y ella misma ha dicho que la clave no ha sido el amor sin fisuras sino “perseverancia, paciencia y suavidad”, además de, en sus propias palabras, “una buena dosis de odio” de vez en cuando. No parece el consejo que se espera de una pareja de Hollywood. Es, probablemente, el más honesto que se puede dar.
¿Vosotros creéis que la clave de los matrimonios largos es aguantar el mal momento o saber cuándo bajarse del autobús?
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🚨Forrest Monument Update🚨
🫡The Sons of Confederate Veterans has officially selected a contractor to raise the Forrest Monument at Elm Springs.
🪦The monument serves as a grave marker for Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife.
#Neverforget
#confederate #bettersouth #southern #confederateflag #sonsofconfederateveterans #scv #civilwar #oursouth #southerner #Dixie #nathanbedfordforrest #forrest
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The Guns of Navarone (1961) Theatrical Release Poster.
► During shooting, Gregory Peck and David Niven became close friends, bonding initially over Peck's ability to consume vast quantities of brandy, which the actors used to stay warm while filming in a cold studio tank, without muffing a line. Their families visited each other frequently in later years, and Peck would deliver the eulogy at Niven's funeral.
► Although in the plot, Mallory is supposed to be fluent in German, Gregory Peck could not speak the language, and his German lines are all dubbed by Robert Rietty. Peck was also dubbed when speaking Greek.
► The last sequence shot was the setting of the bombs. With three days left to shoot, David Niven was felled by an infection from a split lip sustained shooting in the studio tank. As doctors tried to identify the infection so they could treat it effectively, the production ground to a halt for a month. Finally, Niven defied his doctors' orders and returned to the set to finish this movie before he had fully recovered. The relapse that resulted put him in the hospital for seven weeks.
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EPIC TRIP! Headed home from the Boozefighters Nationals- one helluva ride!👍🏼
#roadtrippin #TINAGDTBAP
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Christopher Reeve taking a nap in his Superman costume on a folding chair between takes during the production of Superman: The Movie in 1977...
Reeve was a relatively unknown stage actor from New York when he was cast in February 1977. Plenty of famous names had been considered for the role, but the producers bet on a newcomer.
There was one problem. Reeve was tall but skinny, and he refused to wear a padded muscle suit. So he trained with David Prowse, the bodybuilder who played Darth Vader in Star Wars, and put on about 20 pounds of muscle.
His daily routine included 90 minutes on a trampoline, two hours of lifting weights and a high-protein diet.
The flying scenes were exhausting too. Reeve was lifted as high as 50 feet on wires hanging from a crane, and he wore about six different capes depending on the pose. The five-minute sequence of Superman flying Lois Lane over New York took three months to film.
Filming lasted nearly two years because the first two Superman movies were shot back-to-back. Naps like this one were well earned.
The film opened in December 1978 with one of the biggest opening weekends in history at the time.
Before he became Superman, Reeve studied at Juilliard, where his classmate and close friend was Robin Williams. The two promised to help each other for the rest of their lives.
#archaeohistories
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“I have returned!”
This is one of the most iconic photos in history, and it was not supposed to happen.
MacArthur didn’t want to get his feet wet and was furious he had to. A beach master diverted MacArthur’s landing craft. It was forced to lower its ramp in knee-deep water instead of at a dry pier.
MacArthur was irate. This was his moment of redemption, of his promised return to the place he had, some claim, abandoned. But now his trousers, shoes, comeback – sodden.
MacArthur saw Carl Mydans’s Life Magazine image and changed his mind – the image had great power. He later recreated the walk at Luzon and Lingayen Gulf for the press.
Today was a great day nonetheless. In a downpour, MacArthur addressed the beachhead on a radio. His hands shook with great emotion as he said: “People of the Philippines, I have returned!”
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Rest in peace, Batai
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At 19, Jackie Gleason left his mother’s wake with almost nothing.
He found subway fare in his pocket and walked out of the Brooklyn apartment where Mae Gleason had raised him alone. His older brother had died when he was three.
His father left when he was nine and never returned. After Mae died, there was no parent waiting and no diploma. He moved in with other performers and looked for nightclub work. Some nights dinner was hot water and free cafeteria condiments.
Born Herbert John Gleason on February 26, 1916, he quit high school at 16, hung around poolrooms, and took a job as a theater master of ceremonies for four dollars a night. After his mother died, comedy had to pay the rent.
His first club job nearly ended when he bombed and was fired. He returned for the second set, won the crowd, and stayed.
Jack Warner signed him in 1941, but Hollywood did not make him a star. He returned east, worked clubs and Broadway, and tried television. The Life of Riley lasted one season. On Cavalcade of Stars he began building characters from the people he knew. Ralph Kramden changed everything. CBS made him a star.
Then came the 39 filmed episodes of The Honeymooners. When the series ended, he stopped rather than weaken it.
He also made music. Music for Lovers Only spent 153 weeks in Billboard’s Top 10. He won a Tony Award for Take Me Along and earned an Oscar nomination as Minnesota Fats in The Hustler.
The teenager from the pool halls now held the screen with a cue and a stare.
He had two daughters with Genevieve Halford. Later marriages followed, the last to Marilyn Taylor. At 61 he found another big audience as Sheriff Buford T. Justice in Smokey and the Bandit. His final film was Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks.
Jackie Gleason died of cancer on June 24, 1987, at 71, with Marilyn beside him. His daughters had visited days earlier. The boy who once left with almost nothing did not leave alone. He spent a lifetime turning loneliness into laughter. ❤️
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There was this tape recorder there and I.....got this impulse. / S03E08 The Tape #Seinfeld #Seinfeldism
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Thieving and Retiring Congressman Jerry Nadler will return home to New York under indictment for insurance fraud.
Nadler, who gained sympathy from his constituents when his Long Island home burned down on Christmas Eve in 2017, now stands accused of defrauding Allstate for more than $2 million.
"Congressman Nadler filed claims for several works of art, watches, and other high-value items that he still possesses," said Long Island District Attorney Malcom Reynolds. "Being a retired congressman doesn't make him above the law.
Reynolds says the grand jury is convening next week and should return several felony indictments by late December.
"His homecoming won't exactly be welcoming."
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In October 1942, during the height of the destruction of Polish Jewry, the Polish underground ordered Jan Karski to carry a report to the government-in-exile in London. Before he left, two Jewish leaders from the Warsaw ghetto met him. Their message was simple: “Our entire people will be destroyed.”
Karski decided he needed to see it himself. At enormous personal risk, he was smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto and later into the Izbica transit camp near Lublin, disguised among the guards. He watched starving children, naked corpses left in the streets, and Jews packed into freight cars for the killing centers. The images never left him. He became not only the courier of the Polish underground but the witness who insisted the free world hear what was happening to the Jews.
He reached London in November 1942 and briefed the Polish government-in-exile and British officials, including Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. In July 1943, he met President Roosevelt in Washington and described what he had seen. Roosevelt listened, and then asked questions about other matters.
Karski later wrote that he had failed in his wartime mission. In 1981, he told American officers who had liberated the camps: “And thus I myself became a Jew … so have all the Jews who were slaughtered become my family. But I am a Christian Jew … My faith tells me the second original sin has been committed by humanity. This sin will haunt humanity to the end of time. And I want it to be so.”
Yad Vashem recognized him as Righteous Among the Nations in 1982, not because he saved individual Jews, but because he risked his life to enter the ghetto and a transit camp and carried their message to leaders of the free world. In 1994, Israel granted him honorary citizenship. He called it the proudest day of his life.
Karski had been a Polish diplomat and underground courier. After the war, he became a Georgetown professor. The silence that greeted his reports never stopped troubling him. He spent the rest of his life insisting that the world had known and had not acted in time.
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It's a hand puppet. What am I gonna do with this? / S01E05 The Stock Tip #Seinfeld #Seinfeldism
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Seinfeld's reruns have made Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David hundreds of millions of dollars. Jason Alexander, who played George, says he has made less than $200,000 from them.
That gap is part of why the show ended.
In the video below, Alexander explains why George, Elaine and Kramer stopped wanting more seasons.
In 1997, Seinfeld was the biggest comedy on TV. NBC offered Jerry $5 million an episode, about $110 million, for a tenth season. He said no.
Every year before the Christmas break, Jerry asked his three co-stars if they wanted to keep going. In season 9, they all said it was done.
Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards were not partners in syndication. The reruns would pay Jerry and Larry for life. Not them.
"Seinfeld wasn't going to be the annuity for us that it was going to be for Jerry and Larry," Alexander says.
Every new season tied them tighter to one character. "We were going to contribute to our own eventual demise as actors."
The case for Jerry: he and Larry created the show and owned it. The cast signed their deals and were paid well, reportedly $600,000 an episode by the end.
Before the final taping, the four of them held hands backstage like every week. They called it the circle of power.
Jerry said: "For the rest of our lives, when anyone thinks of one of us, they will think of all four of us."
Alexander says they walked out looking like they'd been hit by a truck.
So should Jerry have shared the reruns with George, Elaine and Kramer?
