March 2
It's March 2nd
On this day in 1791 – Claude Chappe demonstrates the first semaphore line near Paris.
In 1933 – The film "King Kong" premieres in NYC.
In 1984 - "This is Spinal Tap" is released in theaters.
In 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
In 1978 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from his grave in Switzerland.
In 1995 – Space Shuttle Endeavour launches carrying the ASTRO-2 spacelab observatory.
In 1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
Birthdays:
Bryce Dallas Howard
"Orchids" (Short)
on Tubi
Rebel Wilson
on Tubi
Wilson had previously said in interviews that she was raised by dog-training "bogan" parents in the ghetto of Sydney, spent a year in Zimbabwe, climbed into a cage with a leopard, and got caught in a shoot-out and then struck down by a severe strain of malaria from a mosquito in Mozambique where, from her intensive care bed, she envisioned herself winning an Oscar and rapping her acceptance speech. Her age was also incorrectly given as 29 (when it was actually 35), which she would later admit was something she chose not to correct. Woman's Day called all of this into question and claimed that Wilson had, on the contrary, a "very normal, upper-middle-class upbringing" and "added a touch of 'fantasy' to the life she led before becoming a household name" Most notably, Wilson's true birth date was confirmed through business records filed with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission, which were obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald, and her birth name of Melanie was confirmed. Following the appeal, Wilson continued to stand by her claim that she is related to Walt Disney by marriage, despite having no evidence to support her claim. Following this incident, Wilson was "sacked from two DreamWorks animations" and "missed out on movie roles during 2015 and 2016"
Heather McComb
as Diane in "Stay Tuned"
as Laura in "Day of Reckoning"
Method Man
on Tubi
Silas P. Silas in "How High"
Wibi Soerjadi
Daniel Craig
on Tubi
Ann Leckie
Mark Evans
John Cowsill
Jay Osmond
Dale Bozzio
Laraine Newman
as Zoey, Zarelda in "Wholly Moses"
on Tubi
Mark Evanier
on the Internet Archive
Karen Carpenter
Rory Gallagher
Larry Carlton
Derek Watkins
Robert Williams
Peter Straub
"Ghost Story"
George Layton
as Tony Bender in "Confessions of a Driving Instructor"
John Irving
Lou Reed
Lawrence Payton
Clark Gesner
Leo Dillon
Tom Wolfe
"Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff"
"From Bauhaus to Our House"
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
John Cullum
on Tubi
Ernst Haas
Eddie Lawrence
Jennifer Jones
on Tubi
as Astrid Steele in "Cult of the Damned" aka "Angel, Angel, Down We Go"
David Goodis
"Five novels of the 1940s & 50s"
on the Internet Archive
Desi Arnaz
Martin Ritt
In 1952, Ritt was caught up by the Red Scare and investigations of communist influence in Hollywood and the movie industry. Although not directly named by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Ritt was mentioned in an anticommunist newsletter called Counterattack, published by American Business Consultants, a group formed by three former FBI agents. Counterattack alleged that Ritt had helped Communist Party-affiliated locals of the New York-based Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union stage their annual show. Also cited was a show he had directed for Russian War Relief at Madison Square Garden. His associations with the Group Theater, founded on a Russian model, and the Federal Theater Project (which Congress had stopped funding in 1939 because of what some anti-New Deal congressmen claimed to be a left-wing political tone to some productions), were also known to HUAC. He was finally blacklisted by the television industry when a Syracuse grocer charged him with donating money to Communist China in 1951. He supported himself for five years by teaching at the Actors Studio.
Marc Blitzstein
Kurt Weill
Henry Katzman
Dr. Seuss
In the early 21st century, some of Seuss's work for children was criticized for containing racist themes and caricatures. A 2019 study found that a great majority of his depictions of non-white characters utilized racial stereotypes, although it has been argued that these characters were simply a product of their time. On these grounds, in 2021, six of Seuss's books were pulled from publication.
Willis H. O'Brien
On this day in 1791 – Claude Chappe demonstrates the first semaphore line near Paris.
In 1933 – The film "King Kong" premieres in NYC.
In 1984 - "This is Spinal Tap" is released in theaters.
In 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
In 1978 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from his grave in Switzerland.
In 1995 – Space Shuttle Endeavour launches carrying the ASTRO-2 spacelab observatory.
In 1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
Birthdays:
Bryce Dallas Howard
"Orchids" (Short)
on Tubi
Rebel Wilson
on Tubi
Wilson had previously said in interviews that she was raised by dog-training "bogan" parents in the ghetto of Sydney, spent a year in Zimbabwe, climbed into a cage with a leopard, and got caught in a shoot-out and then struck down by a severe strain of malaria from a mosquito in Mozambique where, from her intensive care bed, she envisioned herself winning an Oscar and rapping her acceptance speech. Her age was also incorrectly given as 29 (when it was actually 35), which she would later admit was something she chose not to correct. Woman's Day called all of this into question and claimed that Wilson had, on the contrary, a "very normal, upper-middle-class upbringing" and "added a touch of 'fantasy' to the life she led before becoming a household name" Most notably, Wilson's true birth date was confirmed through business records filed with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission, which were obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald, and her birth name of Melanie was confirmed. Following the appeal, Wilson continued to stand by her claim that she is related to Walt Disney by marriage, despite having no evidence to support her claim. Following this incident, Wilson was "sacked from two DreamWorks animations" and "missed out on movie roles during 2015 and 2016"
Heather McComb
as Diane in "Stay Tuned"
as Laura in "Day of Reckoning"
Method Man
on Tubi
Silas P. Silas in "How High"
Wibi Soerjadi
Daniel Craig
on Tubi
Ann Leckie
Mark Evans
John Cowsill
Jay Osmond
Dale Bozzio
Laraine Newman
as Zoey, Zarelda in "Wholly Moses"
on Tubi
Mark Evanier
on the Internet Archive
Karen Carpenter
Rory Gallagher
Larry Carlton
Derek Watkins
Robert Williams
Peter Straub
"Ghost Story"
George Layton
as Tony Bender in "Confessions of a Driving Instructor"
John Irving
Lou Reed
Lawrence Payton
Clark Gesner
Leo Dillon
Tom Wolfe
"Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff"
"From Bauhaus to Our House"
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
John Cullum
on Tubi
Ernst Haas
Eddie Lawrence
Jennifer Jones
on Tubi
as Astrid Steele in "Cult of the Damned" aka "Angel, Angel, Down We Go"
David Goodis
"Five novels of the 1940s & 50s"
on the Internet Archive
Desi Arnaz
Martin Ritt
In 1952, Ritt was caught up by the Red Scare and investigations of communist influence in Hollywood and the movie industry. Although not directly named by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Ritt was mentioned in an anticommunist newsletter called Counterattack, published by American Business Consultants, a group formed by three former FBI agents. Counterattack alleged that Ritt had helped Communist Party-affiliated locals of the New York-based Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union stage their annual show. Also cited was a show he had directed for Russian War Relief at Madison Square Garden. His associations with the Group Theater, founded on a Russian model, and the Federal Theater Project (which Congress had stopped funding in 1939 because of what some anti-New Deal congressmen claimed to be a left-wing political tone to some productions), were also known to HUAC. He was finally blacklisted by the television industry when a Syracuse grocer charged him with donating money to Communist China in 1951. He supported himself for five years by teaching at the Actors Studio.
Marc Blitzstein
Kurt Weill
Henry Katzman
Dr. Seuss
In the early 21st century, some of Seuss's work for children was criticized for containing racist themes and caricatures. A 2019 study found that a great majority of his depictions of non-white characters utilized racial stereotypes, although it has been argued that these characters were simply a product of their time. On these grounds, in 2021, six of Seuss's books were pulled from publication.
Willis H. O'Brien
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