TRIVIA
Anna Jarvis, the woman primarily responsible for the modern holiday honoring mothers, began campaigning in the 1920s against the commercialization of Mother’s Day. She denounced confectioners, florists, and other commercial interests that she accused of gouging the public.
HISTORICAL EVENT
On May 12, 1963, the young and unknown Bob Dylan walked off the set of the country's highest-rated variety show, The Ed Sullivan Show, after network censors rejected the song he planned on performing.
The song that caused the flap was "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," a satirical talking-blues number skewering the ultra-conservative John Birch Society and its tendency to see covert members of an international Communist conspiracy behind every tree. While many of the song's lyrics about hunting down "reds" were merely humorous - "Looked up my chimney hole/Looked down deep inside my toilet bowl/They got away!"- others that equated the John Birch Society's views with those of Adolf Hitler raised the fear of a defamation lawsuit in the minds of CBS's lawyers. Rather than choose a new number to perform or change his song's lyrics, Dylan stormed off the set in angry protest.
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
George Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, actor, and writer/author who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums. Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.
Note: Wikipedia has a long but interesting write-up about George Carlin. I read it and would recommend it to anyone who has any interest in him and his humor.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn
(May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003)
(May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003)
Katherine Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than 60 years. In the 1940s she was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy. The screen-partnership spanned 25 years, and produced nine movies.
Hepburn challenged herself in the latter half of her life. She found a niche playing middle-aged spinsters, such as in The African Queen (1951), a persona the public embraced. Three more Oscars came for her work in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). In the 1970s she began appearing in television movies, which became the focus of her career in later life. She remained active into old age, making her final screen appearance in 1994 at the age of 87. Hepburn died in 2003 at the age of 96.
Emilio Diogenes Estevez
(born May 12, 1962)
(born May 12, 1962)
Emilio Estevez is an American actor, film director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. He is also known for Repo Man, The Mighty Ducks and its sequels, Maximum Overdrive, Bobby (which he also wrote and directed), and his performances in Western films such as Young Guns and its sequel. His first movie was The Outsiders.
Estevez is the older brother of Charlie Sheen and son of Martin Sheen.
Florence Nightingale
(May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910)
(May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910)
Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.
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