This and That
Preview Autonomia’s Superman articles, OCON in Boston, the deaths of Ruth Buzzi and David Horowitz and June’s dates to remember with news from Starbucks, Weight Watchers, Netflix, WalMart and Apple
Next month’s calendar includes gruesome and glorious history:
June 1st: Remember the late Congressman John Porter on his 90th birthday.
June 2nd: Celebrate film director Lasse Hallström’s birthday.
June 7th: “Gentlemen, I make the motion that the United Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent.” —Richard Henry Lee, June 7, 1776
June 8th: Remember the late Joan Rivers on her birthday. Today’s also the day Charles Ingalls—Pa to Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie fame—died and it’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday as well.
June 12th: Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany. “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” —Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, March 7, 1944. Also, on this date in 1967, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the law banning interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia. And on this date in 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were murdered in Brentwood—probably by Orenthal James Simpson.
June 15th: Father’s Day.
June 16th: on this date, in 1961, ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West from Soviet Russia.
June 17th: in 1962, Ayn Rand’s column debuts in the Los Angeles Times.
June 21st: The first day of summer and Edward Snowden’s birthday in 1983. Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York, featuring Liza Minnelli, Robert DeNiro and the title song, debuts in 1977.
June 23rd: Hollywood’s adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead debuts in movie theaters in 1949; Bob Fosse was born in 1927.
Book Review: Fosse by Sam Wasson
Who was Bob Fosse? Author Sam Wasson delves into the details in an exhaustive biography. He comes up with a dark and fascinating portrait. Pointing to one of the 20th century’s most influential artist’s fast, sharp and sensuous movement as “part of [the] dance vocabulary” that expresses Fosse’s philosophy, the biographer unfurls an enveloping, intellectual mystery. Centering upon Fosse’s untold and unknown abuse at the hands—and arms and legs—of skanky women and parental neglect, Wasson plunges into darkness to locate and mine Fosse’s goodness and lightness within. “What is filth?” the writer asks.
June 30th: AppleMusic debuts in 2015.
New story series in Chicago
I’m delighted to announce that Classic Chicago magazine contracted for a new series of my short stories. Following the success of my winter-themed tales about boys near icy bodies of water, the publication showcases my new springtime trilogy. Read about my newest fiction series—depicting the woman of resilience—in reverse sequential order.
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