It’s time for Robert Kotsmith and Michael Chmielewski to fess up. Time to come clean. Guys, don’t worry. We forgive you. The Statute of Limitations of high school foolishness has passed now, and we just want to know how you did it. We really don’t care anymore. In the July 1955 issue of Popular Mechanics, Jim… Continue reading The Great Foley, Minn. Computer Scam of 1955
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Celluloid Prairie Scum and Lithe Championship Diver: Strother Martin’s Two Lives
Strother Martin in Rooster Cogburn, 1975 Strother Martin was a character actor who rose to the very top of the character category. While his credits run from 1950 to 1980, his character star shone the brightest in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was often conscripted to play time-worn, hard-bitten, tobacco-spittin’ codgers in Westerns. Martin… Continue reading Celluloid Prairie Scum and Lithe Championship Diver: Strother Martin’s Two Lives
Twilight Zone: “We All Know What Became of Bonnie Beecher”
And I chose Bonnie Beecher, and we all know what became of Bonnie Beecher. William Froug, in The Twilight Zone Companion, by Marc Scott Zicree These are the curious words uttered by Twilight Zone producer William Froug, in reference to a May 22, 1964 episode titled “Come Wander With Me.” What Froug was so upset… Continue reading Twilight Zone: “We All Know What Became of Bonnie Beecher”
Gerard Darrow: From Quiz Kid to Broken Man
The Ephemera: A sweet-faced, intelligent 9 year-old boy–Gerard Darrow–who performed on a radio show called Quiz Kids. LIFE says that Darrow “rescued this fledgling martin during a field trip at the Darrows’ summer cottage at Petite Lake, Ill.” Though Gerard was well-groomed and combed in the radio studio, he most loved being outdoors, where he… Continue reading Gerard Darrow: From Quiz Kid to Broken Man
From New Orleans Debutante to Wife of a Marxist, Divorce “Pioneer,” and Reiki Practitioner
The Ephemera Photo – Flickr/Bustbright Fortune, December 1938: About this time every winter in New York, if you happened to pass the Ritz toward eleven o’clock of a December evening, you would notice at the usually dark and deserted Forty-sixth Street entrance a swarm of limousines and taxis busily unloading a crowd of top hats… Continue reading From New Orleans Debutante to Wife of a Marxist, Divorce “Pioneer,” and Reiki Practitioner