Dr. Maya Angelou’s Writing Ritual
Dr. Maya Angelou had an interesting ritual she would engage in when writing, and she was prolific. The ritual included a bottle of sherry, a deck of cards, legal pads,…
Brooks Robinson: The Defensive Genius
There is little dispute that Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles was the greatest defensive third baseman in major league history. Casey Stengel's career spanned practically the…
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a brilliant black comedy made in 1964 and starring Peter Sellers with George C. Scott. In…
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert
In 2001 the Library of Congress selected the 1939 documentary film Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically,…
Don Drysdale: The Pitcher Who Played for Keeps
Anyone lucky enough to have spent five minutes in the company of Don Drysdale would believe they had met their new best friend. But on the pitching mound for the…
The Unmatched Brilliance of the Nicholas Brothers
As great as Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly were in the dance routines they performed, one has only to see the acrobatic Nicholas Brothers in their virtuoso tap dancing musical…
Carl Erskine: A Baseball Legend’s Legacy
The last living star player of the Brooklyn Dodgers' famed "Boys of Summer" teams is the right-handed hurler, Carl Erskine, born December 13, 1926, in Anderson, Indiana. He threw a…
The Academic Ambitions and Beauty of Bettie Page
Her own mother’s jealousy cost Bettie Page a scholarship to Vanderbilt University. Instead she earned a 1944 Bachelor of Arts degree in education from Peabody College in Tennessee. It was…
Jean Harlow in China Seas
Based on a slam bang adventure novel (that the Hays Office originally vetoed as fetid and objectionable source material for motion pictures based on the interracial love affair and the…
Burt Reynolds & Raquel Welch in 100 Rifles
In 100 Rifles (1969) with Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch scored cinematic history in a mainstream Hollywood film with scenes portraying interracial intimacy for the first time.
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