60 years since the premier of The African Queen

The African Queen came out in Los Angeles December 23, 1951.

The film by John Huston staring Katherine Hepburn and Humphry Bogart would go onto receive 5 Oscar nominations. Bogart would win his one and only Oscar for this film.

50 Years Since the US Premiere of Judgement at Nuremberg

The film Judgment at Nuremberg premiered in West Germany on December 14, 1961. Then released in Sweden on December 18. The New York City premiere was December 19, 1961.

The film about the trial of Nazi war judges in 1948 was directed by Stanley Kramer and is a gripping and powerful film.

The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture.

The film would win 2 Oscar, best lead actor (Maximilan Schell) and adapted screenplay (awarded to Abby Mann).

Other acting nominations included Spencer Tracy (also lead actor), Montgomery Clift (supporting actor), and Judy Garland (supporting actress).

November 29, 2011

• 1 year anniversary of the death of Leslie Nielsen (died 2010)

40 Years Since US Premiere of Normal Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof

The film Fiddler on the Roof was first released in the US on November 3, 1971.

The film musical would go on to be nominated for 8 Academy Awards including best picture would go on to win 3 (best cinemotography, best scoring [to John Williams], and best sound).

Share Your Halloween Costume Past

Here's an idea for your blog. Why don't you talk about your Halloween costume past?

Here's some potential questions to get your thoughts going...

• Perhaps you can create a chronology of all costume's you've ever had?


• What's a favorite costume?


• What's the worst costume you've ever had?


• What was something you wanted to be as a child that you weren't?


• Have you ever won a costume contest? Share the story.

Steve Jobs

With the death of Steve Jobs today (at the age of 56) here are some ideas to blog.

• How did you respond to Jobs death?


• When was the first time you heard of Steve Jobs, what was the context?


• What was your first Apple product you used? purchased?


• How do you think Steve Jobs will be viewed 10 years from now? 20? 100?

October Quotes

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers
to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the
hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
-- Thomas Wolfe

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin
anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks
wonderful.
-- Thomas Merton

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than
that.
-- Paul Reiser