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Wouldn’t the strike have affected the Indiana Jones movie too?
Apparently they wrapped up shooting Raiders before the strike began. Selleck was bound by his contract, waiting for the show to be picked up, and had to work as a handyman until the strike ended.
[There's Only One Magnum P.I., And His Name Is Tom Selleck - YouTube]
Tom Selleck did end up anchoring a franchise of sorts. Beginning in 2005, he portrayed small-town police chief Jesse Stone in a series of nine made-for-TV movies adapted from the Jesse Stone novels written by Robert B. Parker.
(and in my not-so-humble opinion, they’re worth seeing … there’s a lot worse stuff out there you’ve probably watched)
-“BB”-
Good luck and good health, Bullitt!
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Harlan Fiske Stone of New Hampshire was named to the Supreme Court by President Calvin Coolidge, Republican of Massachusetts. A reliable vote for upholding New Deal legislation, Fiske was later promoted to Chief Justice of the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat of New York.
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I missed that earlier.
I want to join EH and wish you a successful procedure and speedy recovery Bullitt!
Harlan Ellison used the pseudonym “Cordwainer Bird” for his TV scripts that he felt were mangled by the producers or director, so his name would not appear.
The name is undoubtedly derived from the character “Cordwainer Bird” from a script for Burke’s Law, written by Ellison and played by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Ralph Ellison, noted author and literary critic, twice applied for admission to Tuskegee Institute. He was finally admitted because the school needed a trumpet player for its orchestra. Ellison, who lived in Oklahoma, hopped freight trains to get to the Alabama institution.
Harlan Ellison was not tall, but fancied himself a ladies’ man and could be quite direct with attractive young women. One story has it that he asked a pretty girl, “What would you say to a little fuck?”
She replied, “Hello, little fuck!”
Bob Harlan was an executive with the Green Bay Packers for 36 years, including serving as the team’s president from 1989 until 2006 – as the Packers are a publicly-owned team, the role of Packers president is analogous to the role of a team owner for other franchises.
Harlan’s tenure as president featured the Packers making two Super Bowl appearances, and winning a championship for the first time in 29 years; he also spearheaded major expansion and renovation projects to Lambeau Field.
One of Harlan’s sons, Kevin Harlan, and one of his grandchildren, Olivia Harlan, work as sports announcers.
There’s a legend that as Saint Kevin was praying with his arms outstretched, a blackbird laid eggs in his hand, so he stayed that way until the fledglings flew away.
The Wright Brothers, on their longest of four first flights at Kitty Hawk on Dec. 17, 1903, flew less than the length of a modern Boeing 747,
Kitty Hawk got its name from the Algonquin word Chickahawk, meaning “A place to hunt geese.”
Henery Hawk is a character which appeared in Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts. Henery is a tough-talking juvenile chickenhawk, who typically serves as an antagonist to Foghorn Leghorn, as his primary motivation is to capture (and, presumably, eat) a chicken.
Foghorn Leghorn was directly inspired by the character of Senator Claghorn, a blustery Southern politician who appeared on Fred Allen’s popular 1940s radio show. Foghorn adopted many of Claghorn’s catchphrases, such as “I say…” and “That’s a joke, son!” Kenny Delmar, who voiced the character on the radio, claimed inspiration for Claghorn was a Texas rancher he knew.
Former US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) liked to tell a joke about a secret poll of US senators as to who the next President should be, and every senator received one vote.
There were two separate American League baseball teams named the Washington Senators, which played in Washington D.C.
The first Senators, which played under the name from 1901 until 1960, relocated to Minneapolis/St. Paul for the 1961 season, and were renamed the Minnesota Twins. The second Senators were an expansion team, which began play in 1961; they only played in Washington for eleven seasons, before moving to the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 1972, where they were renamed the Texas Rangers.
The original Ottawa Senators (officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, or Ottawa HC) were founded in 1883 and won 11 Stanley Cup championships. They competed in the NHL until the 1933–34 season, but due to financial difficulties had to relocate to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Eagles. However the Senators continued in Ottawa as an amateur and then later as a semi-professional team in Quebec senior men’s leagues until 1954. The current Ottawa Senators began NHL play in the 1992-93 season and adopted the original team’s black, red and white color scheme and nickname. They have never won the Stanley Cup.
Thank you, guys.
Soitenly! Hope you’re feeling better and better.
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U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures until ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in April 1913. According to Senate.gov, Augustus Bacon of Georgia was the first senator directly elected by the people of his state under the terms of the amendment, on July 15, 1913. The following year marked the first time that all senatorial elections were held by popular vote. In recent years, some conservatives have called for repeal of the amendment.
Bacon Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon’s request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia.
A Virginian colonist named Robert Beverly reported, in his 1705 book on the history of Virginia, that some soldiers who had been dispatched to Jamestown to quell Bacon’s Rebellion gathered and ate leaves of Datura stramonium and spent eleven days acting in bizarre and foolish ways before recovering, and having no knowledge of their actions. This led to the plant being known as Jamestown weed, and later jimsonweed.
William H. Seward, Republican of New York, served as U.S. Secretary of State throughout the Lincoln and Johnson Administrations, despite being severely injured in a knife attack as part of the plot which also resulted in President Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865.