Talk show host Larry King was born 75 years ago today.He was the first baby to be born with suspenders instead of an umbilical cord. His first words were, “How did it feel for you to give birth to me just now?”Others born that same year: Johnny Unitas, Yoko Ono and King Kong.
LIFE magazine and Google have teamed up to offer “millions of photographs from the LIFE archive” via Google search.
Mickey Mouse turns 80 today. 18 November 1928 is Mickey’s official birthday, according to the Walt Disney Company. That’s the date of the cheerful rodent’s first public appearance in the cartoon short Steamboat Willie (below).
“The fest wrapped up with the awarding of trophies. The man in the iron lung — who came as the incapacitated father of the brat who steals the Dude’s car — picked up his costume prize with a White Russian balanced on his apparatus, while the furthest-travelled award went to a Jesus from Croatia.”The Guardian on the just-completed Lebowski Fest 2008.
Reading that the best barbecue in Texas was at Snow’s, in Lexington, I felt like a People subscriber who had picked up the “Sexiest Man Alive” issue and discovered that the sexiest man alive was Sheldon Ludnick, an insurance adjuster from Terre Haute, Indiana, with George Clooney as the runner-up.I had warned the Texas Monthly crowd that if they were looking for confirmation of their ranking by an objective outlander, someone from Kansas City was not likely to provide it.
“I think we were just back into the routine. Our hopes are to just to keep the girls moving. It’s like okay, Daddy’s president-elect, okay, we can get to school by 10.”Jovial interview by 60 Minutes with Barack and Michelle Obama. They sure come off as a fun, connected couple.
Cruel, funny, probably true. February 17th is the Day of Confusion.
William Ayers appeared on the chat show Good Morning America today, talking about the fairly hysterical accusations that Barack Obama “launched his political career” in the Ayers living room.Campaign Boogeyman William Ayers Talks to GMA is how ABC News headlines its story, and it’s hard to tell whether that’s being ironical, aggressive, or just telling it like it is. Perhaps it’s always hard to figure that these days.
Barack or Vlad? (Or Nic?)
Best First Dog video so far: (Nice shout-out to Scrappy-Doo at the end, too.)