Kelley Blue Book started in 1926, based on compilations made by Buster Kelley at his brother’s car lot in Irvine, California. It has since grown to become the definitive guide to the value of used cars.
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott is a fictionalized account of Boris Pasternak’s writing of Doctor Zhivago, and the Central Intelligence Agency’s subsequent successful effort to get the book into the hands of Pasternak’s fellow citizens, much to the embarrassment of the Soviet government, which had refused to allow it to be published there.
In the movie version of Dr. Zhivago, Evgraf Zhivago (the doctor’s paternal half-brother) is played by a young Alec Guiness. He only appears at the beginning and the end, as the tale is told in flashbacks, which Evgrav narrates as he is telling the story to the girl who may be Yuri & Lara’s daughter.
The balalaika is a guitar-like instrument that was invented between the late 17th century and early 18th century in Russia. It has a triangular body of varying sizes and only three strings that can be played with fingers or a pick. A balalaika figures prominently in the theme song of Dr. Zhivago.
The balalaika is also mentioned in the lyrics to the 1968 Beatles hit (and Beach Boys parody) “Back in the USSR.”
…Take me to your daddy’s farm
Let me hear your balalaika’s ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm…
On July 4, 1984, the Beach Boys played “Back in the U.S.S.R.” with Ringo Starr joining them as a special guest, during their Fourth of July concerts in Washington, DC and Miami. In Love’s recollection, the “irony” of an Englishman being part of the celebrations for America’s independence from Britain “was not lost on Ringo”. Starr told a reporter: “Happy Birthday [America] … Sorry we lost.”
Ringo Starr’s first marriage was to Maureen Cox in 1965. The couple had three children. The marriage ended in 1975, in large part to Starr’s repeated infidelities. He later admitted to being “a drunk, a wife-beater and an absent father”. Maureen died from leukemia at age 48 in 1994.
In 1985, Starr became a grandfather, the first of the Beatles to do so.
Ringo Starr became a GREAT-grandfather on August 14, 2016, when his granddaughter Tatia Starkey and her partner Adam Low welcomed the birth of their son Stone Zakamo Low.
The DC Comics superhero Batman has been adapted numerous times for television and films. Actors who have played Batman include Adam West, Kevin Conroy (on a number of animated TV series), Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, and Will Arnett (in the LEGO Movie films).
Michael Keaton played ATF Agent Ray Nicolette in two movies by different directors, Out of Sight and Jackie Brown, a year apart. Both were adaptations of Elmore Leonard books.
Elmore Leonard’s book Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Good Writing originally appeared as a 2001 article in the New York Times entitled “Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points, and Especially Hooptedoodle.” Rule #10 is: “Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.”
Good Will Hunting (1997) was written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as a class writing assignment when Damon was at Harvard. Damon wrote his then-girlfriend, medical student Skylar Satenstein, into his script. In the film, Damon’s character’s girlfriend is named Skylar. Damon said the only scene from that script that survived — “it survived verbatim” — was when Will Hunting (Damon) meets his therapist, Dr. Maguire played by Robin Williams.
ETA here it is. Excuse the Romanian subtitles. Good Will Hunting 1997 first meet Romanian - YouTube
I just watched it. I love that movie.
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“Sky King” was an after-school radio and TV drama, featuring Schuyler King, who fought crime and evil from the pulot’s seat of a cessna aircraft over the Arizona desert. Today, Sky King Airport serves Terre Haute, Indiana.
French Lick is a small town in southern Indiana; it was originally the site of a French trading post, the location of which placed it near both a sulfur spring and a salt lick (from which the town’s name comes).
While the town was known in the 19th and early 20th centuries for the resorts and spas which sprung up around the springs, it is likely best known for being the hometown of basketball star Larry Bird, who was nicknamed “The Hick From French Lick.”
NBA player Kyle Macy, NFL player Rod Woodson, and extreme and well-accomplished mountaineer Ed Viesturs all hail from Fort Wayne IN.
Two well-accomplished people hail; from Keytesville. Missouri, pop. 471. Cal Hubbard is the only enshrinee in the Halls of Fame for both baseball and NFL football. And Maxwell Taylor was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Kennedy and Johnson. They were born a year apart.
Both Missouri and Tennessee are bordered by eight other states, the most in the country.
No, Missouri and Tennessee are EACH bordered by 8 other states; They are BOTH bordered by only Kentucky and Arkansas.