From pinterest.com, no idea who to credit, apologies:
Quite a broad. Headline from nypost.com: “‘MobLand’ star blasts ‘grumpy’ rich actors: ‘F — do you have to be grumpy about?’” Helen Mirren.
Maybe there’s hope after all. From NYP: “Arab Israelis stand with their country, rejecting Hamas’ hate.”
RIP three-time Tony Award-winner Charles Strouse, 96. Born in NYC, he graduated from the Eastman School of Music. He abandoned classical music for theater. In collaboration with Lee Adams, he won his first Tony, Best Musical, for Bye Bye Birdie in 1960. He won his second for Applause in ’70, his third and two Grammys for Annie in ’77, collaborating with Martin Charnin on the latter. He won Emmys for TV adaptions of Bye Bye Birdie and Annie. In all he composed the music for 30 shows and nine films, including Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968). He’s a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His showstoppers include Tomorrow, The Telephone Hour and A Lot of Livin’ to Do. He was married from ’62 until the passing of his beloved in 2023. He was a father of four. Awesome, Sir. Thank you. Photo from Google Images:
From The Original Names of 30 Legendary Movies That Got Rejected by Brianna Zigler, Cu Fleshman, msm.com. Here are ten:
Saturday Night Fever (1977) — Rejected title: The Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night.
The Breakfast Club (1985) — Rejected title: The Lunch Bunch.
Blade Runner (1982) — Rejected title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the title of the Philip K. Dick novel on which it’s based.
Some Like It Hot (1959) — Rejected title: Not Tonight, Josephine.
Beetlejuice (1988) — Rejected title: House Ghosts.
Alien (1979) — Rejected title: Star Beast.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) — Rejected title: How the Solar System Was Won, inspired by the Western How the West Was Won (1962).
Casablanca (1942) — Rejected title: Everybody Comes to Rick’s.
Reality Bites (1994) — Rejected title: The Real World.
Vertigo (1958) — Rejected title: Fear and Trembling.
Next up in what I deem funny, Don Rickles, five minutes-plus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KeTNU-ods
Yesterday I set up the Anti-Inflation Book Shop at a nearby viaduct. It didn’t rain. Today I gambled and set up at my usual nook — and it rained. Fie! My thanks to the young man who bought The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth and a children’s book by Tolstoy, and to Romania-born artist Andu, who helped me get stuff home.
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