Casablanca: The Single Most Famous Line in Movie History?
Aug 16
Almost everyone in the world knows the answer to this trivia question: which famous line did Humphrey Bogart repeat four times in what is arguably the most famous line in film history during the movie Casablanca? If you said ‘Here’s looking at you, kid’ in Bogart’s famous voice while pretending you were wearing a fedora, then join the club. Improvised By Bogart, Repeated...
Life, Death, & Who Played Sherlock Holmes: More Than a Trivial Mystery
Aug 15
Here’s a question. Can you name the actor, born in South Africa to British parents, who most often portrayed Sherlock Holmes in films? Keep in mind that he played the famed detective in 16 movies throughout the 30s and 40s as well as lending his voice to the famed fictional detective in more than 200 radio plays. Over time, his physical appearance became synonymous with the name Holmes. If...
ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW AND REMEMBER!
Sep 23Fact: The first theater to be used solely for the showing of motion pictures was built by a Jew (Adolf Zukor). Fact: The first full-length sound picture, The Jazz Singer was produced by the Jewish Samuel L. Goldwyn & Louis B. Mayer (MGM). Fact: A Jew (Dr. Abraham Waksman) coined the term antibiotics. Fact: A Polish Jew (Casimir Funk) who pioneered a new field of medical research gave us a...
Interesting Jewish Facts
Sep 20Lillian Friedman married Cruz Rivera. They named their baby Geraldo Miguel Rivera (Funny, it doesn’t sound Jewish.) Since, according to Jewish Law, anyone born to a Jewish mother is Jewish, Geraldo Rivera is Jewish. As Were, among others: Fiorello Laguardia, Winston Churchill and Cary Grant, as Explained below. Fiorello Laguardia’s mother’s name was Jacobson. His father was not...
Remembering Larry Hagman
Jan 02
A few weeks ago, on November 23rd of 2012, Larry Hagman died. Unless you are of a “certain age”, or are one of the twelve people who started watching the resuscitated Dallas show on TNT, the name Larry Hagman probably means very little. His mother, Mary Martin, even less (she was the original Peter Pan on TV in 1960). But in the 1980s, Hagman, in his second successful TV show, was at...