Other big names who worked on Gone With the Wind at some point but were replaced were director George Cukor and author turned screenwriter F. Scott Fitzgerald. (None of the dialogue that appears on screen is thought to be Fitzgerald’s writing.)
The number one country single “Gone” was recorded by Ferlin Husky, whose mother named him Furland Husky, but the rural Missouri hospital staff misspelled it on the birth certificate. That happened often in places where many mothers were barely literate.
Where’s the horse?
Hmm. I think this is a little misleading. T.R. and Obama got it while still in office; Wilson and Carter after they’d left office. And who were the two Vice Presidents other than Roosevelt?
In play:
The Gillian Flynn book and later movie Gone Girl are largely set in Missouri.
On March 30th, 1855, a horde of 5000 heavily armed Missourians – known as “Border Ruffians” – rode into the newly formed Kansas Territory. They seized the polling places, voted in their own legislature, and leveled severe penalties against anyone who spoke or wrote against slaveholding. The aging John Brown responded.
Yes, I noticed, but didn’t bother with a more careful wording.
Al Gore received a Prize, as did (for work on “the Dawes Plan for German reparations which was seen as having provided the economic underpinning of the Locarno Pact of 1925”) C.G. Dawes. Dawes shared the 1925 Prize with Austen Chamberlain.
Today is the 155th anniversary of the hanging of radical abolitionist John Brown of “Bleeding Kansas” fame (though he had moved back to New York state since then) for the takeover of Harper’s Ferry; in the crowd at his hanging was 21 year old thespian John Wilkes Booth, who though ideologically a total opposite of Brown claimed in his letters to admire him for having the courage of his convictions unlike, in Booth’s opinion, most abolitionists.
John Brown was admired by several famous Americans, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote during Brown’s trial:
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[John Brown is] that new saint, than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of men into conflict and death,–the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson admitted in his letters to having had a same-sex infatuation with one of his Harvard classmates whose name, fittingly enough, was Martin Gay.
There are 81 sites in Waldo County, Maine, that are listed in the US Register of Historic Places. That’s one for every 500 residents of the county. Three of them are archaeological sites whose exact locations are not publicized, to protect them from being harmed by the general public. One of those is a sunken privateer brigantine.
Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his minister father on April Fools Day, 1984.
His father, Marvin Sr, pleaded no contest to a voluntary manslaughter charges.He was sentenced to a six-year suspended sentence and five years probation.
Science Fiction Grandmasters Samuel R. Delany and Anne McCaffrey were both born on April Fools Day.
Foolscap paper is the typical yellow lined legal pad. It is called that because originally, , it was produced with a watermark showing a court jester, wearing the characteristic “fool’s cap” with the long projections with bells on the ends. The jester was substituted in 1580, in protest, for the royal arms traditionally watermarked on official paper.
Don Mclean’s song American Pie includes the following lyrics (emphasis mine)
Now for ten years we’ve been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin’ stone
But that’s not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me
The “Jester” is Bob Dylan. Known for singing protest songs directed at the government, “The King and Queen,” Dylan was considered the mouthpiece of the ‘American man.’
Specifically, ‘the coat he borrowed from James Dean’ references the coat that Bob Dylan wears on the cover of his second album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, released in 1963, which is eerily similar to the jacket James Dean famously wore in Rebel Without A Cause (1955).
Rolling Stone magazine shows Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” as the Greatest Song Ever. The world was astounded to learn that a large number of television performers have been unknowingly lip-syncing to that song for decades.
The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards named his son after one of his favorite actors, Marlon Brando.
All-star second baseman Julian Javier named his son after his teammate, Stan Musial, and then Stan Javier grew up to play in the major leagues. Outfielder Cesar Cedeno named his son after his teammate, Joaquin Andujar, and Andujar Cedeno then grew up to play in the major leagues. The two sons were then teammates with Oakland in 1987.
Hockey defenseman Gordie Howe Roberts was a teammate of his namesake, Gordie Howe, with the New England (later Hartford) Whalers of the WHA. The franchise is now the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes. Howe also played with his sons, Mark and Marty, on the Whalers.
NM, ninja’d.
The theme song for the Carolina Hurricanes is the same one used by the New England Whalers.
Bob Dylan’s song “Hurricane” about the wrongful conviction of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter for murder, was one of his few “protest songs” during the 1970’s and proved to be his fourth most successful single of the decade, reaching #33 on the Billboard chart.
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter spent almost 20 years in prison before he was finally freed. He died earlier this year in Toronto of prostate cancer.