October 23, 1925 -- Johnny Carson (pictured as Carnac the Magnificent) was born.
"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand." -- Anonymous.
October 22 -- Actress Joan Fontaine was born in 1917. She won the Oscar (for Suspicion) on her birthday in 1941.
"Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than to receive an Oscar." -- (Director) Luis Bunuel.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Royalty of big screen and small
Philosophers, poets, playwrights and other putzes
October 18, 1785 -- English poet and novelist Thomas Love Peacock was born. He wrote:
"Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent."
October 17, 1938 -- Daredevil Evel Knievel was born in 1938.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken.
October 16, 1888 -- Playwright Eugene O'Neill was born. He wrote:
"I sometimes think that the United States...is the greatest failure the world has ever seen."
October 15, 1844 -- Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born.
"(He was) an agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur." -- Leo Tolstoy.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
And the Cubs suck, too
October 8, 1871 -- Great Chicago fire occurred.
"(Chicago)...this vicious, stinking zoo...an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit." -- Hunter S. Thompson.
October 9, 1940. John Lennon born.
""Life is what happens when you are making other plans." -- John Lennon.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Still the kings
Paul McCartney born on this day in 1942.
"The Beatles are not merely awful...They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music." -- William F. Buckley.
"Well, you know, a lot of Americans are unbalanced." -- Paul McCartney.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The boredom caused by mimes
Marcel Marceau, the world's most famous mime, was born on this day in 1923. He died last September.
Where did Marceau get his inspiration?
"I do not get my ideas from people on the street," he said. "If you look at faces on the street, what do you see? Nothing. Just boredom."
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