The Beatles’ Abbey Road Piano (sort of) Goes Up for Sale
This Abbey Road Studios piano used by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and others in the 1960s now up for auction. It goes under the hammer at
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Bugs Bunny, Happy 70th (sort of) Birthday!
Cartoon wabbit Bugs Bunny turns 70 today, give or take a few years.
The Harvard Hippies of ’69
Harvard revisits three dropouts from its class of 1969.(Hat tip: Mr. Duffy)
Who2 is Not a Zoo, Casino, or Aquarium
The mysteries of finance: Earlier this year Who2 took out a modest line of credit to do some hedge-trimming and technical roto-tilling around the website. US Bank, for reasons known only to itself and God, routed the approval through some part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It was never quite clear why.
Barbra Streisand Wants Me to Buy ‘What’s Up, Doc?’
Barbra Streisand sent me an email today with the headline “‘What’s Up, Doc?’ Coming Soon on Blu-ray.” (The inside headline is all enthusiasm: “What’s Up, Doc? Available in Two Weeks! First Streisand Movie on Blu-ray!”)
Helen Mirren, You May Now Retire (But Please Don’t)
Helen Mirren is 65 today. But here’s hoping she doesn’t retire: she’s too good. And she can still wear the clothes.
Daniel Schorr: Politicians and Journalists Shouldn’t Mix
Mr. Schorr and [CNN founder Ted Turner] eventually fell out over a CNN plan to team John Connally, the former Texas governor and Nixon Treasury secretary, with Mr. Schorr as commentators at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas.
John Callahan, Quadriplegic Cartoonist, Dead at 59
Willamette Week is reporting that cartoonist John Callahan has died at age 60.His personal site confirms his death (if not the age), with the photo below captioned “1951-2010.” Wikipedia also says John Callahan was born 5 February 1951, which would make him 59. Willamette Week says that Callahan had been in ill health for a year.
Zsa Zsa Gabor is in Critical Condition
“I’m at her bedside waiting for her to respond,” said her husband, Frederic von Anhalt. “She doesn’t talk to us, she can’t tell us what hurts and what’s wrong, so …..
Alex Trebek is 70. Holy Cow!
Alex Trebek, host of the game show Jeopardy! since 1984, turns 70 today. (Born the same year as Bugs Bunny and Bruce Lee, it turns out.)We wish him the happiest possible birthday. He was 44 when he started hosting the show.