Stuff I like
Lynda Day George was born on December 11th, 1944.
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| Lynda Day George |
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| Frequent acting partner and late husband Christopher George |
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| Fear No Evil (1969) |
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| Mission: Impossible (1971-1973) |
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| Ants aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977) |
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| Day of the Animals (1977) |
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| The Love Boat (1978) |
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| Pieces (1982) |
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| Mortuary (1983) with Mary Beth McDonough |
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| Lynda Day George and Christopher George in Mortuary (1983) |
On December 10, 1973, Hilly Kristal’s biker bar at 315 Bowery in Manhattan’s East Village became CBGB OMFUG (Country, BlueGrass and Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers).
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| CBGB at 315 Bowery |
Although his original vision for the club of country, bluegrass and blues didn’t come to fruition it did become a lightning rod for the protopunk and punk movement in New York City.
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| Hilly Kristal (1931-2007) |
Bands such as the Patti Smith Group, Television, Blondie and the Talking Heads got started there.
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| Television (1974) |
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| Blondie (1975) |
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| Talking Heads (1977) |
The Ramones played their first official show at CBGB in August of 1974 and then went on to play there almost every other day for the remainder of that year.
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| The Ramones - Basically CBGB’s house band |
CBGB closed its doors for the last time on October 15th, 2006 over a rent dispute with a final concert by Patti Smith with many special guests.
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| Flea with Patti Smith (10/15/2006) |
On December 9th, 1978, Sid Vicious was arrested for the assault of Todd Smith (brother of Patti Smith). He busted a beer bottle on his head during an altercation at a night club.
Vicious was already out on bail on charges of murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
He would be taken to Riker’s Island where he would endure heroin detox in a jail cell.
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
Mary Woronov was born on December 8th, 1943.
She has been in over 80 movies as well as stage and television.
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| Mary Woronov |
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| Sugar Cookies (1973) with Lynn Lowry |
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| Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) |
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| Death Race 2000 (1975) |
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| Rock n’ Roll High School (1978) |
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| Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies (1983) |
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| With frequent acting partner Paul Bartel - Eating Raoul (1982) with Edie McClurg, Roger Beltran and Ed Begley Jr. |
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| Reprising the roles in Chopping Mall (1986) |
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| Night of the Comet (1984) with Kelli Maroney, Catherine Mary Stewart and Roger Beltran |
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| With Gerrit Graham - Terrorvision (1986) |
Ellen Burstyn was born on December 7th, 1932.
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| Ellen Burstyn |
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| In Jack Hill’s Pit Stop (1969) with Beverly Washburn and Sid Haig |
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| The Last Picture Show (1971) |
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| William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) |
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| With Diane Ladd in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) |
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| Requiem For a Dream (2000) |
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| The Wicker Man (2006) |
Agnes Moorehead was born on December 6th, 1900.
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| Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) |
She is best known for her role as Endora on the television show, Bewitched in 1964.
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| Bewitched (1964-72) |
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| With Elizabeth Montgomery |
In 1965 she stated in a TV Guide interview that many of the scripts for the show were hack and the writing was often below standards.
I mean she was in Citizen Kane for Christ sake.
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| Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) |
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| The Bat (1959) with Vincent Price and Darla Hood |
It is the first animated version of the Peanuts comic strip.
