Today In History
Rex SorgatzWhat happened 20... 50... 800 years ago today? Plus ruminations on time, memory, & nostalgia.
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70 Years Ago: I, Robot
By the time I, Robot was published 70 years ago today, Isaac Asimov had already released all nine of its chapters as individual short stories in popular science fiction magazines of the day. Each story was distinct, with some overlapping ch...
30 Years Ago: Misery
On a recent episode of Eli Roth’s History of Horror, Stephen King was asked what is the scariest Stephen King movie? Not known to play favorites, King surprisingly answered the question. Can you guess which of his filmic offspring he deemed...
75 Years Ago: The Lost Weekend
Yesterday I watched two movies about addiction released 75 years apart.
The first was Belushi, a new documentary about the late comedian. It’s a good biography, stuffed with funny people being vulnerable, including Harold Ramis, Penny Mar...
300 Years Ago: Pirates Mary Read & Anne Bonny Were Sentenced to Death
Why Hollywood hasn’t latched their hooks into this story yet is a mystery the size of Davy Jones’s Locker.
Mary Read (b. 1685) was the daughter of an English sailor who died at sea. Anne Bonny (b. 1697) was the daughter of Irish lawyer who...
50 Years Ago: All Things Must Pass
In some sense, all music after the Beatles was about the Beatles, but this was particularly true of music released by former Beatles.
Soon after the group announced its breakup in April 1970, all four members were onto new solo projects....
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