Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
December 8, 1980
John Lennon, is murdered by a deranged
fan in front of his New York apartment building. Lennon was born in 1940 in Liverpool, England. As a
boy, Lennon lived with his aunt after his father left the family. Lennon
attended Quarry Bank High School, from which he derived the name for his first
band, the Quarrymen, formed in 1955. In 1956, he met Paul McCartney, who joined
the band, and the two began writing songs together. George Harrison joined the
band in 1957, and the three played together under several different names and
with varying members until 1960, when they adopted the name the Beatles.
The
band toured German beerhouses in 1961 and debuted later that year at the Cavern
Club in Liverpool, where they gave more than 300 performances during the next
two years. Drummer Ringo Starr joined the group in 1962. The group scored
several U.K. hits in 1963, launching the "Beatlemania" tidal wave
that hit the United States in 1964. In a little more than 10 years, the group
transformed rock and roll, scoring 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard pop
charts, more than any group in history. The group's records spent a total of 59
weeks topping the charts between 1964 and 1970.
Lennon
divorced his first wife, Cynthia Lennon, the mother of his son Julian, and
married artist Yoko Ono in 1969. With Ono, he released the album Two Virgins
in 1968. He became more involved in liberal political causes and pursued
projects with Ono. In 1970, McCartney announced that the Beatles had broken up.
Lennon released his first solo album, Imagine, in 1971, and it rose to
No. 1 on the charts. During the next few years, he released projects with Ono
as well as his own solo albums, including chart-topper Walls and Bridges
(1974). He gave his last public performance in 1974 and released his last solo
album, Rock 'n' Roll, the following year. In 1975, Lennon and Ono had a
son, Sean, and in 1980 the couple released their album Double Fantasy,
which topped the charts and included the No. 1 single "(Just Like)
Starting Over."
December 8, 1990
Wiseguy
was aired for the last time on CBS.
Wiseguy is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 16, 1987 to December 8, 1990 for a total of 75 episodes. The series was produced by Stephen J. Cannell and was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia to avoid the higher studio costs associated with filming in Los Angeles.
Wiseguy featured Ken Wahl as Vinnie Terranova, a deep cover operative for the fictional Organized Crime Task Force division of the FBI. Jonathan Banks played his superior Frank McPike and Jim Byrnes played Daniel "Lifeguard" Burroughs, who assisted Vinnie while in the field. Wahl left the series after three seasons and Steven Bauer joined the series alongside Banks and Byrnes, who were the only cast members to appear in every season.
As opposed to a typical crime drama series, Wiseguy was structured more like a typicalsoap opera would be; for example, a cycle of episodes would focus on a particular story and the story would conclude in the final episode of the cycle, which gave rise to the termstory arc. Since each cycle dealt with a particular story, the episodes had a set of characters written just for those episodes. Actors such as Kevin Spacey, Ray Sharkey, andTim Curry were among the actors who played central characters in story arcs over the course of the series.
The show placed #74 on Entertainment Weekly 's "New TV Classics" list.
Stay Tuned
Tony Figueroa
No comments:
Post a Comment