Nitpick: Drew’s last name is Carey (one r).
For play: Other hosts of various incarnations of The Price is Right have been Dennis James, Bob Barker, and soap-opera actor Doug Davidson.
Terriers are generally considered to be the worst (i.e. most frequent) barkers of all dog families.
The bark of rthe sequoia can be up to three feet thick.
The written form of the Cherokee language was developed by Sequoyah, who saw the importance of writing to Europeans and created a written version of his own.
*The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian *(usually called just “Cherokee Nation” ) was written by John D. Loudermilk, who was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina.
In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Barack Obama was the first Democrat to carry North Carolina since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Carlene Carter, a third generation member of the singing Carter family, has had three songs that chartered at #3: “I Fell in Love”,“Come On Back” and “Every Little Thing.”
Carter Country was a sitcom that starred Victor French as the police chief of a small southern town. It started airing in 1977; the title was assumed to be a nod to the recent election of Jimmy Carter. As an interesting coincidence, the small town was named “Clinton Corners,” the last name of the next Democratic president.
“Carter Country” was a very well-written show, IMHO. It deserves a better reputation.
Other than the Tarzan series, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most famous novels are the John Carter of Mars series. A Virginian who served in the Civil War, Carter goes into a trance in an Apache cave and finds himself on the planet the natives call Barsoom, and nails the red-skinned princess, Dejah Thoris. John and Dejah were played by Antonio Sabato Jr. and Traci Lords in a 2009 film, and by Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins in the feature about to be released.
Written in 1902, The Virginian, by Owen Wister detailed the life of the foreman of the Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming. It’s considered the first true novel in the Western genre.
Wyoming is named for the Wyoming Massacre in the northeastern Pennsylvania valley of that name. A band of Loyalists and Iroquois, led by Walter Butler (who played a key role in “The Devil and Daniel Webster”) killed and tortured over 300 residents in the rebel stronghold in a terrorist raid. The state was given the name allegedly because Ohio congressman J.M. Ashley liked an 1809 poem about the raid, “Gertrude of Wyoming” by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.
Mary O’Hara, the novelist best known for My Friend Flicka, set that story and several others (including Green Grass of Wyoming and Wyoming Summer) in the state where she lived from 1922 to 1946.
The musical Pal Joey was based upon a novel by John O’Hara and was revolutionary in that the main character was an antihero, something not done before in a musical. The Rodgers and Hart score includes the classic “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered.” The original Broadway show feature Gene Kelly as Joey.
Gene Kelly’s last movie was the execrable 1980 film Xanadu with Olivia Newton-John (good soundtrack by ONJ and the Electric Light Orchestra, though).
Zanna Don’t is a musical set in a parallel universe where being gay is the norm and being straight is taboo.
Hugh Everett’s “Many-worlds” interpretation of Quantum Mechanics postulates
the ongoing and continuous creation of innumerable parallel universes.
When it went off the air, Medical Center, starring Chad Everett, was tied with Marcus Welby as the longest running medical show in US TV history. Both have since been surpassed by ER.
Before “Marcus Welby MD”, Robert Young’s best known role was as the title character in the family sitcom “Father Knows Best”. He was the only main cast member to make the show’s transition from NBC Radio to CBS Television. His ability to play stable, genial, wise family men despite long-term alcoholism and depression showed the extent of Young’s acting ability.
Jane Wyatt, who played Robert Young’s patient wife for six years on Father Knows Best is now mostly remembered for a single appearance on Star Trek as Spock’s mother.
Jane Wyatt’s ancestors included Rufus King (a signer of the U.S. Constitution) and Philip Livingston (a signer of the Declaration of Independence).