1995. That’s when Mari Hulman George (She was the Chairman of the Board of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway) flew down to Walt Disney World to take part in this ceremony. During which – to make sure that the r
Sigourney Weaver became a Hollywood icon as Ripley, an officer on the commercial spaceship Nostromo that lands on a nearby planet after receiving a mysterious transmission. There, the crew finds evidence of alien life, and they try to keep it from getting onto their ship. They do not succeed...
After being closed for over a year,Universal Studios Hollywoodis set to reopen on April 16, 2021. Like many other amusement parks,Universal Studios had to shut downbecause of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Universal Orlando Resort was able to open back in June 2020, but the Hollywood l...
The Hollywood star system created stars like Detroit made cars. From the 1920s until the 1960s, studios crafted personas for young actors, sometimes giving them new names and backgrounds, and brought them up through the ranks of box office stardom. After productions like Bonnie and Clyde shifted...
The audience was asked to move the dots around in order to manipulate tones in the key of C. The tones were then collectively played over a sound system, which allowed the audience to hear the sounds created by their dot manipulations. On his part and in real-time, Assistant Professor ...
“I married her for the right reasons and divorced her for the right reasons. Love is dumb. It turns you into a ventriloquist’s dummy. The end was bitter and scandalous. Sordid. I’ve read both ‘Hollywood Babylons’ and they don’t compare to the carnage that came out of this. Am...
My favorite was always the floating Mickey Mouse ears amongst the carnage of Jurassic Park Hollywood with the name “Michael” engraved. An amusing swipe at Mr. Eisner. Rob McCullough May 12, 2020 at 6:16 PM I can not believe I forgot to include my favorite reference to horrible violence,...
Bob Saget was always up for a good joke. In 2007, he surprised an audience of fans at a Guster concert in Boston when he burst through a homemade paper banner that had been constructed a few hours before. The Boston alt-rock band was scheduled to perform a show at the Boston Opera ...
Marvel’s First Family has gotten one raw deal after another from Hollywood. Their first movie was so bad Marvel purchased it back rather than suffer the collateral damage its release would have caused to their comics. Their most recent movie wasn’t much better. In between, they got two mi...
Three years before Peanut Butter Wolf would go on to start Stones Throw Records, he performed in ahip-hop duoalongside Cali MC Charizma. The two had a record deal withHollywood Basicand a growing buzz, but Charizma wasshot and killed in broad daylightin an apparent robbery gone wrong in De...