Many notable coaches in the NBA served as player-coaches, including Bill Russell and Lenny Wilkens. This was especially true up through the 1970s, when the league was not as financially successful as it is today, and player-coaches were often used to save money. How many championships did Bill Russell win…
The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill Benny Hill in his flat in the kitchen on Queensgate, London, January 1969 Frankie Howerd, who died the day after his friend Benny Hill, with Norman Wisdom (far left) in ‘Fine Goings On’, BBC series in 1951. Benny Hill leaving hospital…
Watch the official music video for “Pressure” by Billy Joel In 1982, Billy Joel released an album titled The Nylon Curtain, which became a Billboard Top 10 album and was one of the first to be recorded, mixed, and mastered digitally. Watch the official music video for ’Pressure’, which broke…
In The Jerk, Bernadette Peters does an excellent miming job. Before she plays, she lightly licks her lip in a very natural way. Then, she actually fingers the right notes on the valves for a melody in the trumpet key of A flat. Her embouchure is a little too loosy-goosy…
Candle in the Wind is a threnody with music and lyrics by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It was originally written in 1973, in honour of Marilyn Monroe, who had died 11 years earlier. Written by Elton John and his collaborator Bernie Taupin, “Candle in the Wind” was inspired by…
Kevin and Bean is the morning show on KROQ-FM, an alternative rock-format radio station in Los Angeles, California. It is hosted by Kevin Ryder and Gene “Bean” Baxter. The show has been on the air since 1990 and intersperses music and news with comedy, celebrity interviews, listener call-ins, and live…
While it is in no way confirmed that Rick’s original Beth is dead — or if the memory of Rick in which Beth dies is real — the conversation between Rick and Young Rick is as close to a confirmation as we’ll likely ever get. They are also pondering if…
In 2017, The Art of Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations by Emily Zach was published after San Francisco publisher Chronicle Books decided to mark the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth by showing that she was “far more than a 19th-century weekend painter. She was an artist of astonishing…
It wasn’t until a century after the Revolutionary War—in a time of flag fervor—that the Philadelphia seamstress’ story became an urban legend. Although seamstress Betsy Ross is often credited as the maker of the first American flag, there’s no evidence that’s true. Betsy Ross was a real seamstress who live…
September 2020, Becca announced that she and Garrett had broken up after two years together. “I don’t think it’s going to come as a shock to anyone, but Garrett and I have decided to end our engagement,” she said on an episode of her podcast, “Bachelor Happy Hour,” at the…