Back in my college days, I tended to snigger at drug references in rock songs. So, I probably sniggered when I first heard Mick Jagger sing the lines in the…
Category: Movie Quotes
Before Marilyn Monroe, “the seven year itch” was an annoying skin condition…
On November 20, 1952, the play The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod debuted on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre. It starred Tom Ewell, as a married man attracted to…
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
In 1950, Bette Davis was a highly-regarded actress. But she was starting to be viewed as an “aging” actress and her career seemed to be fading. That year, the multitalented…
SEPTEMBER 22 – “Slowly I turned…”
September 22 is the anniversary of the most widely known version of an old vaudeville routine – the “Slowly I turned” shtick. In this classic comedy bit, the name of…
SEPTEMBER 11 – They’ll never take our freedom (to rewrite history)
If you saw the 1995 movie Braveheart, you almost surely remember star Mel Gibson in his blue-painted face yelling the famous line “They may take our lives, but they’ll never…
AUGUST 25 – The man behind the curtain
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” On August 25, 1939, moviegoers throughout the U.S. heard that line for the first time, when the film version of The…