Stuff I like
On Friday December 2nd, 1977, the made for TV movie Ants aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor premiered on ABC prime time.
Starring Lynda Day George (Mortuary), Bernie Casey, Barry Van Dyke, Brian Dennehy and introducing Suzanne Somers.
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| Lynda Day George |
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| The scene that traumatized 7 year old me. |
On December 1st, 1976, a very young group by the name of the Sex Pistols made their first TV appearance on the BBC Today Show hosted by Bill Grundy.
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| The Sex Pistols with Grundy and entourage including Siouxsie Sioux. |
The Sex Pistols had recently signed with EMI and were a last minute replacement for label mates Queen, who had to cancel. Bill Matlock had not yet been replaced by Sid Vicious.
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| Pre-Vicious Pistols with Matlock |
The Sex Pistols did what the Sex Pistols do. Profanities were uttered and chaos ensued, some of which was egged on by Grundy.
After the show the phones lit up like phones tend to do when uptight people get offended. Someone thought it a good idea to run the calls into the green room occupied by the Pistols and the chaos continued over the phone.
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| Bill Grundy |
Bill Grundy “retired” from television a short time later and the Sex Pistols crashed and burned their way into punk rock history with future antics and chaos. The media labeled this event as “The Filth and the Fury”.
The controversy partly contributed to the Sex Pistols being dropped by EMI a short time later.
Sex Pistols Timeline:
10/8/1976 - Sex Pistols Sign with EMI
12/1/1976 - Sex Pistols and the Filth and the Fury
1/6/1977 - Sex Pistols Dropped by EMI
3/10/1977 - Sex Pistols Sign to A&M
3/16/1977 - Sex Pistols Dropped by A&M
4/3/1977 - Sid Vicious First Gig
5/27/1977 - Sex Pistols Release God Save the Queen
6/7/1977 - Sex Pistols Boat Party
1/5/1978 - Sex Pistols 1978 Tour Begins
1/14/1978 - Sex Pistols Last Stand
1/17/1978 - Sex Pistols Call It Quits
10/12/1978 - Sid Vicious Arrested for Murder
10/23/1978 - Sid Vicious Suicide Attempt
12/9/1978 - Sid Vicious Arrested for Assault
Terrence Malick was born on November 30th, 1943.
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| Terrence Malick |
The reclusive director’s award winning credits span almost 50 years.
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| Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen in Badlands (1973) with John Carter |
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| Adrien Brody in The Thin Red Line (1998) |
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| Sean Penn in The Tree of Life (2011) |
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| August Diehl and Valerie Pachner in A Hidden Life (2019) |
Diane Ladd was born on November 29th, 1935.
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| Diane Ladd |
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| Chinatown (1974) |
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| With Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) |
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| …and again on the sitcom Alice (1980-81) |
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| Embryo (1976) |
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| Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) |
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| Wild At Heart (1990) with daughter Laura Dern |
Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born on November 28th, 1984.
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| Mary Elizabeth Winstead |
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| Final Destination 3 (2006) |
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| Black Christmas (2006) |
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| Death Proof (2007) |
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| Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) |
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| The Thing (2011) |
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| 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) |
Curtis Armstrong was born on November 27th, 1953.
He’s played both Booger and Snot.
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| Curtis Armstrong |
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| Miles Dalby in Risky Business (1983) |
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| Booger in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) |
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| Charles De Bar in Better Off Dead (1985) with Amanda Wyss, Taylor Negron, E.G. Daly and Vincent Schiavelli |
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| Snot on American Dad |
On November 26th, 1997, Alien: Resurrection was released in US theaters.
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| Alien: Resurrection |
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and written by Joss Whedon.
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| The Alien Hybrid |
Set 200 years after Alien 3, Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as a cloned Ripley.
Also starring Wynona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Dan Hedaya, Michael Wincott and Dominique Pinon.
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| Perlman, Pinon, Weaver and Ryder |
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| Brad Dourif |
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| Dan Hedaya |
Also on this date:
Actor John Carter was born in 1927
Related:
On November 25th, 1976, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko performed live for the last time as The Band. The concert took place at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.
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| The Band |
A parade of top notch talent at the time joined them on stage including but not limited to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and Joni Mitchell.
Martin Scorsese filmed it and a documentary was released nearly two years later. In 2019 the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.
