SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
September 29 is … Poisoned Blackberries Day
The 2011 Chicago Baseball Season, RIP!
My Fair Lady closed on this day in 1962 after a run of 6½ years. At the time, the show held the Broadway record for longest-running musical of all time. 3,750,000 people watched the wonderful show and heard tunes like Wouldn’t it Be Loverly, Show Me, Get Me to the Church on Time, I’m an Ordinary Man, I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face and the Vic Damone/Robert Goulet standard, On the Street Where You Live.
The team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe turned George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion, into a colorful, musical production. They gave a new life to the rough-around-the-edges, cockney, flower girl; the subject of a bet between Professor Higgins (Just You Wait, ’Enry ’Iggins) and a colleague. The Professor bet that he could turn Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady (The Rain in Spain). With a Little Bit of Luck he did it. Eliza, looking and acting very much like a princess, sang I Could Have Danced All Night.
After its Broadway success, My Fair Lady was made into a motion picture (1964) and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. I think you’ve got it.
1953 - Danny Thomas, who many now remember as Marlo’s dad and Phil Donahue’s father-in-law, is also remembered for many things that influenced television. At the suggestion of his friend, Desi Arnaz, Thomas negotiated a deal that would allow him to retain ownership rights to his programs, like Make Room for Daddy, which debuted this day on ABC-TV. Later, in 1957, the show would move to CBS under the Desilu/Danny Thomas Productions banner. The rest is, literally, TV history. His success allowed him to give something back to the world, in the form of his philanthropic efforts to build St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis. “All I prayed for was a break,” he once told an interviewer, “and I said I would do anything, anything, to pay back the prayer if it could be answered. All I needed was a sign of what to do and I would do it.” And so it was.
1960 - My Three Sons was welcomed into U.S. homes on ABC-TV. Fred MacMurray, who was a movie actor, had a difficult time making the adjustment to the small screen. But adjust he did, and My Three Sons endured so well that CBS bought the successful hit for somewhere between seven and ten million dollars in 1965.
1982 - The first of seven deaths was reported in the Chicago area from Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Later, Johnson and Johnson introduced a triple sealed, tamper resistant Tylenol bottle.
1983 - On the Great White Way, A Chorus Line became the longest-running show on Broadway, with performance number 3,389. Grease, the rock ’n’ roll production, had been the previous box-office champ since 1980.
There seems to be a Broadway theme today. Don’t break a leg.
On this date:
1789 1st congress adjourns too bad they came back.
1789 US War Dept established a regular army.
1793 Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine.
1789 US War Dept established a regular army.
1793 Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine.
1954 Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive, we have all seen a video of this catch.
1979 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1986 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
What took them so long; must have been a government job.
Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too or at least think about.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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