Pop Trivia – HBO Shows… New Series (Documentary) – About Elton John

Monday, January 30th, 2012 | Fascinating - Interesting Facts Pop Culture News | No Comments

HBO Schedule Adds Elton John Documentary February 2

If You Love Elton John & Elton John Songs – You’ll Love This

Baby Boomer Trivia At Its Best – Man From Yesterday Recommended

HBO’s – THE UNION. 

THE UNION takes an unprecedented look at the creative life of Elton John and his remarkable collaborative album with his early-career idol, Leon Russell. THE UNION is produced by award-winning music producer T Bone Burnett and directed by Cameron Crowe. Never before filmed in his composing process, John is captured by Crowe in this candid portrait of one of the world’s most treasured artists and performers. Begun in Nov. 2009, THE UNION chronicles the entire writing and recording process of the heralded album John recorded with Russell. 

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History Timeline Pop Culture – Interesting-Fascinating Facts – Madonna News 1985

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 | Fascinating - Interesting Facts Pop Culture News | No Comments

Interesting Fun Facts From Popular Culture History – Madonna News From 1985

From The Mr. Pop Timeline Of History.

Madonna Date History – April 1, 1985

Madonna Songs

Madonna is hot. She has two singles in the top-5 this week – “Material Girl,” and “Crazy for You” each from separate albums. And, she has another single due out in several weeks – “Angel.” If as if that weren’t enough, Madonna has a new song “In The Groove” from her movie “desperately Seeking Susan” whose video is getting played on MTV. To be sure, her record label, Warner Brothers, fearing over video exposure, has killed plans for a video of her next single (Angel) because MTV is crowded with a pair of her clips, already.

 Madonna Date History – April 12, 1985

One of the bigger hits so far this year – “Like a Virgin” by Madonna – written by Billy Steinberg and Tom
Kelly. Lyricist Steinberg says the song “came from personal experience. I wasn’t just trying to somehow get that racy worked virgin in a lyric. I was saying, from personal experience, that I may not really be a virgin. I’ve been battered romantically and emotionally like many people, but I’m starting a new relationship and it just feels so good, it’s healing all the wounds and making me feel like I’ve never done this before, because it’s so much deeper and more profound than anything I’ve ever felt.”

Madonna Date History – July 19, 1985

Hollywood news – Actor Sean Penn and his pop-singer-fiancée  Madonna are targets of a $1 million
damage suite filed by Laurence  Cottrell – a free-lance photographer.  He says Penn attacked with a rock and his own camera in a Nashville,  Tenn. hotel car park last month.

Madonna Date History – July 28, 1985…

Madonna has filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the release of a 5-year-old pornographic movie in which she is the star performer. The film, titled “A Certain Sacrifice” features her in an orgy scene. She is also shown in a
rape sequence in a coffee-shop restroom. At the time, she signed a release permitting her voice and body to be featured in the film, but not her name. She was paid $100 for her performance.

Everyone is talking about the Aug. 16 marriage of  Madonna to actor Sean Penn. How will it be covered
by the media?

Madonnamania -

Apparently Madonna is responsible for increased sales of the “Merry Widow” bra, which she frequently wears onstage and in publicity photos. More and more girls are going for the innerwear-outerwear effect that Madonna likes. They’re wearing the Merry Widow with opened shirts and blouses – as though they’re T-shirts so that satin and lace can be seen.

Madonna Date History – August 15, 1985

Married – Pop singer Madonna to actor Sean Penn – at Malibu Beach at the home of Penn family friend Kurt Unger. Seen attending – Rosanna Arquette, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Judd Nelson, Martin Sheen, Chris Penn, David Letterman. Also seen Diane Keaton, Cher, Andy Warhol, David Geffen, Carol Kane, and Christopher Walken. There were 200 guests all together.

Madonna Date History – October 12, 1985

Actor Sean Penn is fined $100 and given a 90-day suspended sentence after pleading no contest to attacking two British journalists. He and wife Madonna were coming out of a Nashville hotel, when the pair approached for an interview.

Mr. Pop Notes: I thought 1985 was a terrific year for Madonna news – the first full year she was in our pop culture lexicon. Thanks Madonna and congrats on this year’s Golden Globe Awards.  All the above information was from the Mr. Pop week-by-week history archives. The dates indicate the week events occurred.

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Pop Culture Date History – The Addams Family Timeline-Fun Facts

Saturday, January 7th, 2012 | Addams Family/Charles Addams Google Salute | No Comments

Google Pop Culture – As The Search Engine Solutes Charles Adams 100th Birthday January 7, 2012

Some History Facts Pertaining To Charles Adams’ Most Famous Contribution – The Addams Family

The 1960′s – History Timeline – February 28, 1964 -

Al Simon is named executive producer for a new series based  on the Charles Adams characters. The name of the
series is tentatively titled, “The  Addams Family.” Simon has been  associated with The Beverly  Hillibillies, Mr. Ed and Petticoat  Junction. The series will draw from the Adams’ books  including “Addams & Evil”, “Night Crawlers” and
“Homebodies.” The series is scheduled to debut next TV  season.

Date Timeline – August 5, 1964. Addams Family TV Mansion Actually Is A Real House On Adams Blvd In Los Angeles.

Did you know that the exterior shot of the Addams Family Victorian mansion, was shot in L.A. – at a house on … Adams Blvd! “The Addams Family” will debut on ABC-TV this September. David Levy, producer of the show, said he got the idea for the series when he was walking by a bookstore in New York. In the store window, was a book called “Homebodies” by Charles Adams. It had the entire group of  Addams characters in a family portrait on the
cover. “I stopped and looked at that cover and told my friend – there’s a hit series.” Levey says he called Adams and he agreed to work out a series plan. Although he had been drawing the characters for 30 years, none of them had names, so Levy asked Adams to name them all. “He came up with names like Morticia for the ghostly woman, Lurch for the great hulking butler, Uncle Fester for the little bald grinning man, Gomez for Morticia’s husband. Gomez surprised me, but Addams said he always felt his character had Latin blood.”

Date Timeline – October 1, 1964. TV Listings/TV Ratings. Addams Family In The Top-20 TV Guide Shows!

Bewitched – 32.3  Gomer Pyle – 29.5 Addams Family – 25.8 Munsters – 25.0 No Time For Sergeants – 24.7 Peyton Place (Thurs) – 23.4 Flipper – 23.3 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea – 22.8 Peyton Place (Tues) – 21.9 Daniel Boone – 21.3 Many Happy Returns – 21.3 Tycoon – 21.2 Wendy & Me – 20.7 Gilligan’s Island – 20.7 Broadside – 20.3 Cara Williams Show – 20.1 Bing Crosby – 19.9 Shindig – 19.7 Valentine’s Day – 19.7 12 O’Clock High – 18.8 Kentucky Jones – 18.7

Date Timeline – May 10, 1965 – Ted Cassidy – Lurch’s Career Is On A Roll

Apparently the roll of “Lurch” on the “Addams Family” has given Ted Cassidy a boost in his career. There’s a record, cartoon series and motion picture, among other projects in the works for the actor. Says Cassidy – “I get very nervous about the whole thing. but I know I’m not going to live to be 400 and there’s a lot I want to do. It’s not that I want to make any big mark, but I do want to have a good, full life.”

Date Timeline – June 8, 1965. Probably Because Of The Addams’ Family’s Lower-then-expected-ratings:

Changes to TV shows next season – The Addams Family is adding three invisible characters to second season…Carolyn Jones will be doing double duty on the Addams Family next season, In addition to playing Morticia, she will be seen as Morticia’s older sister, Ophelia Frump. David Levy, series creator, describes Ophelia as “a blonde with stringy hair on which she wears a garland of buttercups. After sprouting archaic prose - elegantly- she is likely to slide down the banister.” She’ll be billed as an expert at karate and jujitsu.

Date Timeline – November 1, 1965. Charles Adams Finally Meets The Addams Family Cast – On Set

Television news – Charles Adams, creator of those cobwebby cartoons in the New Yorker, finally travels to Los Angeles  to meet the cast of his TV series – The Addams Family. He’s only met Carolyn Jones in New York. Adams,
doesn’t seem to mind that the series – now in its second season – is still in black & white. “I’ve always preferred
black-and-white, and I think I am dealing with a black and-white subject.”

Dateline – December 1, 1965 – Who Plays “IT” On The Addams Family?TV Guide Question

Here’s how it was answered that week –  “Who plays Thing, on the Addams Family series? The credits merely say “Itself.” … “Thing is just another TV mystery. ABC press agents insist they don’t know. We suspect it might be the producer’s right hand man.”

Addams Family Episode From Season Two

Compiled From The Week-By-Week Date-History Files Of www.mrpopculture & www.mrpophistory.com By GaryWest

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