For the presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1993, Maya Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning". This made her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation…
Steve McQueen was a breakout star the year his series, Wanted Dead or Alive exploded on TV. Pretty soon his antihero acting persona earned him the reputation as "The King…
Wisdom shared by Mark Twain: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Bettie Page was given a screen test at 20th Century Fox. It did not work out. "By the time they finished making me up for the screen test," Bettie said,…
"In the 1971 World Series, Roberto Clemente played a kind of baseball that none of us had ever seen before -- throwing and running and hitting at something close to…
The first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world was Jack Johnson. His parents had been slaves who were freed during the Civil War. "I made a lot of mistakes…
With his unique improvisational style Thelonious Monk excelled as a jazz pianist and composer. Only Duke Ellington tops Monk as the most-recorded composer of jazz music, ever. Monk and Ellington…
Seeing any of his movies, it was impossible to dislike the English comic actor, writer, composer and musician, Dudley Moore. He won an organ scholarship to Oxford University and became…
Many baseball authorities, including Vin Scully, have named Willie Mays as the greatest player in the history of the game. For a 1987 interview Joe Morgan asked Mays who was…
During 1947, according to the annual poll, Bing Crosby and Betty Grable were the top two attractions in films. Movie tickets cost forty cents that year. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE…
