Monument Park at Yankee Stadium honors former Yankee greats, but it also honors three former Cardinals.
Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI, all of whom held mass at Yankee Stadium. As Popes, they were former Cardinals.
Urban VI (born Bartolomeo Prignano) was the last non-Cardinal to be elected Pope. . . in 1378.
Keith Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian Grammy Award winning country music singer, who married Nicole Kidman and managed to sire a child with her even though Tom Cruise somehow managed not to.
Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” is the only song to win a Grammy for Best Disco Recording. The catagory has since been retired.
At least four former Cardinals grace the Yankees’ Monument Park:
Roger Maris finished out his MLB career with the Cards, his favorite
team while he was growing up. Unlike their Holinesses, Maris had
a number (9) which was retired from Yankee service.
Among his many other accomplishments, Homer Simpson, a star of the long-running Fox TV animated comedy The Simpsons, once won a Grammy.
Yes it did: retired > retired.
With 18, Homer Summa holds the major league record for most home runs by a player whose first name is Homer.
Ah, I missed that. Thanks.
Tobey Maguire played Homer Wells in the 1999 drama The Cider House Rules, based on a book by John Irving. Michael Caine and Charlize Theron costarred. Caine and Irving both won Oscars for the movie.
Bears, wrestling, Prep Schools, and outrageous sexual promiscuity grace
so many pages of John Irving’s books that they must be among his favorite
things, and he must speak from extensive personal experience.
In fact, he attended (Phillips) Andover Academy (as did both Prezzes Bush),
and (I think) he wrestled there. Dunno where the bears came from. As an
all-male school preppie the sex part in understandible.
Homer Adams Parkway is the name for a stretch of Illinois Route 3 that runs through Alton. It’s primarily a commercial/retail route, home to various businesses from Kmart to car dealers, hotels and restaurants.
Non sequencial.
Repeat prior:
Bears, wrestling, Prep Schools, and outrageous sexual promiscuity grace
so many pages of John Irving’s books that they must be among his favorite
things, and he must speak from extensive personal experience.
In fact, he attended (Phillips) Andover Academy (as did both Prezzes Bush),
and (I think) he wrestled there. Dunno where the bears came from. As an
all-male school preppie the sex part in understandible.
In Jack Chalker’s “Dancing Gods” comic fantasy novels, Joe, a truck driver on Earth, is transported to a fantasy world where he becomes a hero. As is usual, he is given a magic sword, which he named “Irving” because he likes the name.
To add realism to Dances with Wolves (1990), a language coach was brought in to teach Lakota to cast members who did not know how to speak it. Because of the difficulty in learning the language, the “gendered speech” aspects of the language were omitted from the lessons. When native speakers of Lakota saw the finished film, they found it amusing to hear Lakota warriors talking like women.
Dances with Wolves was satirized in the 1991 film Hot Shots!, which was primarily based on 1987’s Top Gun. In it, Charlie Sheen’s character, Topper Harley, visits the tent of the Lakota chief The Old One, played by Rino Thunder, to learn spirituality from him and to bring him fresh batteries for his Walkman. The film was also the first pairing of Sheen and Jon Cryer.
Harley Earl was an automotive designer responsible for such innovations as two-tone paint jobs and tailfins. In a series of Buick commercials about ten years ago, he (or perhaps his ghost, as he died in 1969) was played by actor John Diehl in an attempt to suggest that current Buick designs were in the “spirit” of Earl’s creativity.
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Harley-Davidson of Milwaukee, WI and Indian of Springfield, MA were the only 2 US motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Depression. Indian folded later but has recently been revived. Nicknames of Harley engines of the past include the Flathead, Panhead, Knucklehead, Shovelhead, Blockhead, and Fathead.
Knucklehead Smiff was the dimwitted puppet sidekick of ventriloquist Paul Winchell, who later became better known as the voice of Tigger in Winnie the Pooh and Gargamel in Smurfs.
In 1972 and '73, Paul Winchell hosted Runaround, a Saturday morning children’s TV game show.
When not entertaining, Paul Winchell was an amateur inventor. In 1961, he submitted the first patent for an artificial heart.