In the film The Mambo Kings", Desi Arnaz, Jr., played the role of his father, Desi Arnaz, Sr.
Desi Arnaz, Jr. appeared on the cover of the very first issue of TV Guide on April 3, 1953, with a title that read: “Lucy’s $50,000,000 baby.” The reason he was given this title was because revenue from certain tie-in commitments was expected to top that mark.
Desi Arnaz Jr. was the “Desi” in one of the first boy band Dino Desi & Billy, along with Dino Martin and Billy Hinsche. Beach Boy Carl Wilson married Billy’s sister Annie, divorced her and married Dino’s sister Gina.
If he had divorced Gina and married Desi’s sister Lucie Arnez it would have been a trifecta!
I Love Lucy was a sitcom that ran on CBS from 1951 to 1957, a total of 180 episodes. It was the most-watched show in four of its six seasons.
It was the first television show to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings. The only other shows to accomplish that feat were The Andy Griffith Show in 1968 and Seinfeld in 1998.
Newhart was filmed at Desilu studios. According the Newhart’s memoir, when they started filming the finale to the show, the audience was laughing so hard that people from the other sets filming other shows came over to see what the noise was all about.
Comedian Bob Newhart came to prominence in 1960, with the release of his first comedy album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. The album was the first comedy album to reach the #1 spot on the Billboard, and won two Grammy Awards in 1961, for Best Comedy Album, as well as Album of the Year (Newhart, himself, also won the Best New Artist Grammy that same year).
Bill Cosby’s Grammy Awards:
Best Comedy Performance – Grammy Awards
1965 I Started Out as a Child
1966 Why Is There Air?
1967 Wonderfulness
1968 Revenge
1969 To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With
1970 Sports
1987 Those of You with or Without Children, You’ll Understand
Best Recording for Children – Grammy Awards
1971 The Electric Company – Cast member
1972 Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs
I’m glad the last word is not SEX
Grammy-award winner Leon Russell had a long history of connections with well-known musicians. He was in the same high school 1959 class as pop musician David Gates; Russell and Gates played and recorded together as the Fencemen. In 1970, on his first album, the musicians included Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Steve Winwood, Joe Cocker, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison.
As an 8th grader, Bill Gates wrote his first computer program. Using the BASIC language, he programmed a General Electric computer to play tic-tac-toe against the human user.
The zip code for General Electric in Schenectady is 12345.
Actor Kurt Russell played hockey coach Herb Brooks in 2004’s Miracle, about the 1980 US Men’s Olympic Hockey Team. The main focus was on the “Miracle on Ice”, when team USA defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union. That USA team was the youngest team in the entire tournament, and also the youngest team in national team history. There were 12 teams in the tournament.
In the games:
- on 12 Feb 1980 Team USA tied Sweden 2-2
- on 14 Feb 1980 Team USA defeated Czechoslovakia 7-3
- on 16 Feb 1980 Team USA defeated Norway 5-1
- on 18 Feb 1980 Team USA defeated Romania 7-2
- on 22 Feb 1980 Team USA defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 – The Miracle on Ice
- on 24 Feb 1980 Team USA defeated Finland 4-2 – to win the Gold Medal
The games were played in and near Lake Placid NY, the same state as Schenectady.
Three locations have played host to the Winter Olympic Games on two separate occasions:
- St. Moritz, Switzerland (1928 and 1948)
- Innsbruck, Austria (1964 and 1976)
- Lake Placid, New York, United States of America (1932 and 1980)
Sapporo, Japan, had originally been selected to host the 1940 Winter Olympics, but bowed out of hosting those games after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937; Sapporo later did host the Winter Games in 1972.
Kurt Russell had some early brushes with acting, but his real love was baseball. His father was a pro player. Russell started playing for the minor leagues. He had moved up to the AA division when a collision with another player tore the rotator cuff in his throwing arm. This ended his potential baseball career and he returned to acting.
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Geraldine J., a Canadian teenager, once sat for a portrait, which was bought by President Woodrow Wilson. Six years later, she gave birth to Jane, and then they moved to California, where Jane fell in love with the high school quarterback. They married later, when sh was about to become mover star sex symbol Jane Russell and he was on the way to becoming NFL superstar Bob Waterfield.
TLTE - ^^^ The portrait of Jane Russel’s mother
Jane Russell was born in 1921 in the northern Minnesota town of Bemidji. Bemidji is also where the Mississippi River starts. Bemidji calls itself “The First City On The Mississippi”.
Bemidji is freuently the coldest reporting weather station in the lower 48. The record is -50, and subzeru temperatures are recorded many years in six of the twelve months. It has been as low as +2 in October.
NFL tight end Dave “The Ghost” Casper of the Oakland Raiders was born in Bemidji MN.
The mascot and all of the teams of Bemidji State University is the Bemidji Beaver. And the unofficial college bar is The Beaver Dam.
The only Division I college team with a beaver as its mascot is Oregon State University.