[del]George C. Scott twice declined Oscar nominations (for The Hustler and Patton), dismissing the Academy Awards as “a goddamned meat parade”.[/del]
Hall of Fame lefty pitcher Warren Spahn, who played for Stengel with both the Boston Braves and the New York Mets but not the New York Yankees, said “I played for Casey before and after he was a genius.”
There is no Post 3521. Nothing to see here, folks, move along please.
By friendly persuasion, horsetrading and some armtwisting, Chief Justice Earl Warren was able to get a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court behind his decision in the landmark 1954 school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
LOL…I changed my initial Stengel post because Astorian made his Holmes post when I was in the course of writing it!
The phrase “course of writing” returns about 3,190,000 results in 0.20 seconds on Google.
Google, founded by Sergei Brin and Larry Page, is a misspelling of “googol”, or 10 the power of 100, the amount of information it was originally expected to handle. The company’s motto is “Don’t be evil”.
One of the largest numbers ever proposed is googolplex which is 10 ^ 10 ^ 100.
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area of Texas is commonly referred to as the “Metroplex”.
The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is the only airport in the world with four serviceable paved runways longer than 4000 meters. It also has more non-intersecting runways (seven) than any other airport in the U.S.
The Mary Worth comic strip started out as “Apple Mary” (though King Features denies this), a depression era strip about an apple seller who handed out advice. It evolved into an ongoing soap opera.
Mary, Queen of Scots, never actually met her longtime political rival, Elizabeth I of England, who reluctantly ordered her execution after one plot too many. Mary’s son eventually took the English throne as James I.
Mary, Queen of Scots was from the house of Stewart, a family that received its name because an ancestor had been the royal steward to the Scottish king. The spelling was changed to Stuart when she was at the French royal court because ew was not a combination that generally occurred in French, similar to the way some names were Anglicized in America when their spelling used letters that do not follow each other in English (e.g. in 18th century South Carolina the German surnames Tschudi became Judy or Choody and Vinzhandt became Vincent).
When legendary Scottish race driver Sir Jackie Stewart founded his own Formula 1 racing team, he commissioned the design of Stewart Racing Tartan for his team, Stewart Grand Prix. The team was later bought by Ford and renamed after its then-division Jaguar. The team is now licensed in Austria although still operating in England, and is named Red Bull Racing after its current owner, which also owns Italy’s Scuderia Toro Rosso (the former Minardi team).
Steven Spielberg directed two episodes of TV’s "Night Gallery’: one featured Joan Crawford as a tyrannical, rich blind woman, while the other featured comedian Jackie Vernon as a hopelessly incompetent genie.
Tom Bosley was in both episodes.
New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther had a long-standing disdain for Joan Crawford, referring to one of her performances as “romantically forbidding as a package of unwrapped razor blades.”
Tom Bosley played the family doctor in the movie Yours, Mine & Ours, a movie based on the true story of Helen North, a widowed nurse with 8 children, who married Frank Beardsley, a widowed naval officer with 10 children, and then had a child together. (IRL the Beardsleys had a second child together as well.) Bosley recalled the movie as a miserable experience due to Lucille Ball’s prima donna behavior and a tirade she went into when somebody made a joke about her age; Ball was in fact 19 years older than the real Helen North, more than 25 years older than North was when the movie took place, and at the age of 57 was portraying a pregnant woman with several pre-school aged children.
In 2005, Yours, Mine and Ours was remade with Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo in the lead roles. Rottentomatoes.com gave it a 5% rating, ranking it as one of the hundred worst films of the year, but it made over $72 million at the box office.
Rene Russo was a high school classmate of Ron Howard, who played Tom Bosley’s son in Happy Days.
Root Boy Slim, a rock singer of the 1970s with a string of minor FM hits like “Boogie 'Til You Puke” and “Christmas in K-Mart,” was a classmate and fraternity brother of George W. Bush at Yale. Bush was a year younger, and was instrumental in banning his group, Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band, from performing at Yale.
Side note: That was to accommodate the SST. I actually watched an SST come in for a landing there once, back before they were banned from flying into the interior of the US. An awesome sight.
In Rain Man (1988), Raymond keeps insisting his underwear is from the K-Mart on Oak and Burnet. This address is actually for the Vernon Manor Hotel in Cincinnati, the hotel where Charlie, Raymond and Suzanna stay early in the movie.