The Cheyenne Social Club was released in 1970, the same year Tarita Cheyenne Brando was born.
The Cheyenne Social Club was the last dramatic film directed by Gene Kelly.
Gene Kelly’s final film appearance was in Olivia Newton-John’s “Xanadu” (1980), in which she played the goddess Terpsichore, the muse of song and dance, returned to Earth to help a nightclub owner. Rita Hayworth had also played Terpsichore in “Down to Earth” (1947), the sequel to “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” (1941), in which she returned to Earth to help a Broadway producer.
Cheyenne Jackson appeared in the Broadway musical version of Xanadu and will have a recurring role in Glee next year as the coach of Vocal Adrenoline (replacing the character played by fellow Broadway star Idina Menzel).
English travel writer Samuel Purchas’s work Pilgrimage includes the line “In Xanada did Cublai Can build a stately Pallace, encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall, wherein are fertile Meddows, pleasant Springs, delightful Streames, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the midst thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure, which may be removed from place to place.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s reading of this work led to the dream which eventually produced the poem Kubla Khan.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is grouped with the “Lake Poets” along with William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and a few lesser lights, all of whom lived in England’s Lake District at the turn of the 19th century but had little else in common literarily.
*Still trying to wash myself clean after making an Olivia Newton-John post … I scrub and scrub but the odor just … won’t … come off …BTW nice play, Sampiro! *
James Taylor has three other siblings who recorded professionally: Livingston (>10 albums), Kate (>5 albums), and Alex (5 albums). Another brother, Hugh, also performs but doesn’t seem to have recorded.
Kate Jackson was generally referred to as “the smart one” in the Seventies jiggle/crimefighting series Charlie’s Angels. Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett played her well-endowed and perhaps not quite so brainy colleagues.
John Forsythe provided the voice of the never-seen Charlie in Charlie’s Angels.
During WWII, John Forsythe enlisted in the Army Air Corps and appeared in the Air Corps show “Winged Victory.”
Winged Victory is the name of one of the most prominent female heroes in Kurt Busiek’s Astro City comics. In an early issue, Victory went on a date with Samaritan, one of the predominant male characters, on which neither of them felt able to relax.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace is a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike.
In the Battle of Marathon, a heavily outnumbered force of Greeks deafeated the Persians. The messenger Phidippides ran from the battlefield to Athens to deliver the news. Phidippides dropped dead after proclaiming, “Nike!” (victory).
Nike-Ajax anti-aircraft missiles and, later, Nike-Hercules anti-missile missiles were stationed in hundreds of batteries surrounding US population centers and military installations in the 1950’s and 60’s. The city with the most batteries, Chicago, had 22 due to its position vulnerable to Soviet bomber fleets crossing the Arctic. A number of Nike sites still exist in various states of repair.
During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C. was the most heavily-fortified city in the world, surrounded by dozens of earthworks and artillery batteries. Ft. Stevens, where President Lincoln observed the 1864 attack of Confederate forces under Gen. Jubal Early and was briefly under enemy fire, still stands northwest of the White House, as do some other small fortifications.
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn won exactly 300 games for the Senators, White Sox, and Indians. He won his 300th game at age 43, seven starts and nine months after winning number 299 – the longest gap between wins 299 and 300 in baseball history.
The Senate President Pro Tempore is usually the seniormost of all U.S. senators of the majority party. For many years it was Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.); within days of Byrd’s recent death, Daniel Inouye (D-Ha.) was elected to the post. The President Pro Tem is next in line of succession to the Presidency after the Vice President and Speaker of the House.
One person who didn’t know the line of succession was Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who, upon the shooting of Ronald Reagan, proclaimed himself to be “in charge”.
In 1987, the Detroit Tigers, which were contending for a division title, traded a minor-league pitcher to Atlanta Braves to obtain veteran pitcher Doyle Alexander. In the near term, the trade worked out well for the Tigers, as Alexander went 9-0 for them down the stretch, and they won the AL East. However, in the long run, the Braves same out far better in that trade – Alexander went just 20-19 in two more seasons for the Tigers, before retiring, while that minor-league pitcher whom the Braves received was John Smoltz. Smoltz was a cornerstone of the Braves’ dominance through the 1990s, winning over 200 games, saving over 150 games, and earning a Cy Young award for them.
Denton True “Cy” Young won 511 games over 22 major league seasons and pitched three no-hitters and a perfect game. He was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. The Cy Young award was created in 1956 to honor outstanding pitching.
The first recipient of the Cy Young award was Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers.