Sunday, November 24, 2024
Until quite recently, Candy Darling (1944-1974) was the most beautiful male-to-female trans person most people had ever seen. She wasn’t just gorgeous, but she possessed a studied, gracefu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:24AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:18AMBorn 100 years ago today: singer and radio/tv personality Eileen Barton (1924-2006) Barton was a second generation vaudevillian, reported to have joined her parents act at age 2 1/2. Her par…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:12AMSaturday, November 23, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AMNovember 23 was the birthday of the great clown Harpo Marx (1888-1964). Harpo’s gotten a lot of coverage here in the past, in my main post on him, on a movie he made without his brothers, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AMFriday, November 22, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36AMToday would have been the 100th birthday of the great stage and screen actress Geraldine Page (1924-1987). This is the second of a projected trio of pieces I’m doing the mark the occasion.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:12AMThursday, November 21, 2024
From late 2018 through late 2019 I had the honor of performing in Jason Trachtenburg’s Lee Harvey Oswald musical Me and Lee at a bevy of off-off locations throughout NYC, including Sidewal…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:54AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:32AMWednesday, November 20, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:54AMHungry I guess for any kind of positive story to tell, local press in New York is trumpeting the news that Fifth Avenue has now reached its bicentennial as one of the city’s main thoroughf…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:42AMTuesday, November 19, 2024
Broadcast legend Larry King (Lawrence Zeiger, 1933-2021) passed away so recently that this post can almost serve as an obituary. We lost him during the Covid pandemic, though at age 87, as i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:54AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AMMonday, November 18, 2024
How so major a show biz figure as Johnny Mercer (1909-1976) has escaped our attention here on Travalanche ’til now is a head-scratcher (I think it’s because he was essentially a post-vau…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:54AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:54AMSunday, November 17, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36AMNever having met the man, I have never been quite certain why the very idea of Lee Strasberg (1901-1982) has always filled me with knee jerk repulsion. One learns about him chiefly by readin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36AMSome brief acknowledgement this morning of the career of silent and early talking film actress Edna Muphy (1899-1974). This fetching colleen started her life in New York City. Work as a mode…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18AMThe title of this post is of course a play on The Howards of Virginia (1940) See how clever? They radiate about as much Americana as the fictional Virginians in that Cary Grant movie. Though…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18AMI count it as a measure of how quickly show business will bury you that though I was born around the time Jack Lescoulie (1912-1987) was drifting out of network television, I never heard of …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18AMSaturday, November 16, 2024
I became (mildly) interested in George Petrie (1912-1997) after rewatching The Day After during the Covid lockdown. I needed something to cheer me up! And I was curious to see how it held up…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AMFriday, November 15, 2024
Stage actress Bertha Galland (1876-1932) enjoyed a decade at the top during the first 10% of the 20th century, often spoken of in such terms as “the next Modjeska“. She left acting in he…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:42AMThursday, November 14, 2024
Martha Tilton (1915-2006) was a popular singer of the big band era who made her mark on record, radio, television, and film. Tilton was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas; Edna, Kansas; and fin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:12AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AMWednesday, November 13, 2024
This is to be a post about the Rockefeller Family (and don’t worry, there are pop culture angles, which ought to be obvious.) It’s customary to pick up the narrative with John D. (1839-1…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:24PMThe narration from the opening credits in the first season of the sitcom The Odd Couple has provided the pretext for November 13 being an annual day to celebrate the show. The choice of date…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:24PMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06AMTuesday, November 12, 2024
I’ve taken to embracing round anniversaries, so I considered pushing this post on Neil Young (b. 1945) off ’til next year. But who knows if any of us will be here then? And it happens to…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:54PMNovember 12 was the birthday of illustrator John R. Neill (1877-1943), primarily associated with L. Frank Baum’s Oz books. While W.W. Denslow had illustrated many of Baum’s earlier stori…
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