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« Reply #3430 on: May 15, 2024, 09:43:25 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

US Supreme Court Declares Standard Oil an "Unreasonable" Monopoly (1911)
By 1880, through elimination of competitors, mergers, and railroad rebates, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil controlled the refining of up to 95 percent of all oil produced in the US. In 1892, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the trust dissolved, but it continued to operate. Exposed in Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904, it was broken up in 1911 after a lengthy antitrust suit by the US government.
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« Reply #3431 on: May 15, 2024, 09:53:46 AM »
On November 1, 1967, "Cool Hand Luke" was released.

Donn Pearce, a merchant seaman who later became a counterfeiter and safe cracker, wrote the novel "Cool Hand Luke", about his experiences working on a chain gang while serving in a Florida prison. He sold the story to Warner Bros. for $80,000 and received another $15,000 to write the screenplay. After working in television for over a decade, Rosenberg chose it to make it his directorial debut in cinema. He took the idea to Jalem Productions, owned by Jack Lemmon. Since Pearce had no experience writing screenplays, his draft was reworked by Frank Pierson. Conrad Hall was hired as the cinematographer, while Paul Newman's brother, Arthur, was hired as the unit production manager. Newman's biographer Marie Edelman Borden states that the "tough, honest" script drew together threads from earlier movies, especially "Hombre", Newman's earlier film of 1967. Director Stuart Rosenberg altered the original ending in the script, adding "an upbeat ending that would reprise the protagonist's (and Paul Newman's) trademark smile."
George Kennedy turned in an Academy Award-winning performance as the leader of the prisoners, Dragline, who fights Luke, and comes to respect him. During the nomination process, worried about the box office success of Camelot and Bonnie and Clyde, Kennedy invested US$5,000 in trade advertising to promote himself. Kennedy later stated that thanks to the award his salary was "multiplied by ten the minute (he) won," also adding "the happiest part was that I didn't have to play only villains anymore."


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« Reply #3432 on: May 15, 2024, 12:54:17 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

US Supreme Court Declares Standard Oil an "Unreasonable" Monopoly (1911)
By 1880, through elimination of competitors, mergers, and railroad rebates, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil controlled the refining of up to 95 percent of all oil produced in the US. In 1892, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the trust dissolved, but it continued to operate. Exposed in Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904, it was broken up in 1911 after a lengthy antitrust suit by the US government.

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« Reply #3433 on: May 15, 2024, 05:28:37 PM »
1917. 


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« Reply #3434 on: May 16, 2024, 06:16:40 PM »
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« Reply #3435 on: Today at 07:33:12 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The First Kentucky Derby (1875)
The Kentucky Derby is a classic US thoroughbred horse race. Established in 1875, it is run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Kentucky. The field is limited to three-year-old Thoroughbreds, and the track distance is 1.25 mi (2,000 m). With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up US racing's coveted Triple Crown. In front of an estimated crowd of 10,000 people, the inaugural derby was won by jockey Oliver Lewis
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« Reply #3436 on: Today at 07:35:05 AM »
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: 

Bartholomew Roberts (1682)
Now infamous as "Black Bart," Roberts was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off the coasts of the Americas and West Africa in the 18th century, during the period known as the "Golden Age of Piracy." Considered the most successful pirate of the era, he is estimated to have captured more than 400 vessels in a matter of a few years—far more than some of the best-known pirates of his day, such as Blackbeard or Captain Kidd.
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« Reply #3437 on: Today at 10:22:05 AM »

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« Reply #3438 on: Today at 10:32:27 AM »
I never understood the logic behind putting shag (or any) carpet where kids and drunk guys piss on the floor.
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« Reply #3439 on: Today at 11:52:53 AM »
I never understood the logic behind putting shag (or any) carpet where kids and drunk guys piss on the floor.
When I was a kid our family managed a bunch of rental properties for a guy. He had a group of duplexes where they had carpeted kitchens and bathrooms and that stuff was absolutely disgusting when we had to pull it. We replaced it with tile each time one was vacant but yeah, carpet in bathrooms is a bad idea. Kitchens aren't much better. It is food instead of piss but as the food residue stuck in the carpet fibers goes bad/rancid, it is disgusting too.

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« Reply #3440 on: Today at 12:06:37 PM »
The first day of production on The Godfather was officially March 23, 1971, with an initial budget of about one million dollars. Three weeks after the film process began, there were still fundamental issues to be resolved: the budget, the cast, the locations, etc.
When the film began to be shot, the problems did not diminish; the filming was linked to the real Mafia, and it was accused that they were asking for "collaborations as consulting technicians."
The controversy increased when the role of Luca Brassi was given to Lenny Montana, a former wrestler (mean 1.98 meters tall) who for a time was the most sadistic enforcer of the Colombo crime family, one of the True Five Families that controlled the organized crime activities in New York City.
Lenny Montana, who was actually called Leonardo Passafaro, was one of those technical consultants of the real mafia who collaborated with the intimate details that made the film so true.


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« Reply #3441 on: Today at 12:24:55 PM »
A blonde teenager, wanting to earn some extra money for the summer, decided to hire herself out as a "handy-woman"
She started canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house, and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her to do.
"Well, I guess I could use somebody to paint my porch," he said, "How much will you charge me?"
Delighted, the girl quickly responded, "How about $50?"
The man agreed and told her that the paint brushes and everything she would need was in the garage.
The man's wife, hearing the conversation said to her husband, "Does she realize that our porch goes ALL the way around the house?"
He responded, "That's a bit cynical, isn't it?"
The wife replied, "You're right. I guess I'm starting to believe all those dumb blonde jokes we've been getting by email lately."
Later that day, the blonde teenager came to the door to collect her money.
"You're finished already?" the startled husband asked.
"Yes, she replied, and I even had paint left over, so I gave it two coats."
Impressed, the man reached into his pocket for the $50.00 and handed it to her along with a $10.00 tip.
“And, by the way," the teenager added, "it's not a Porch, it's a Lexus."


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« Reply #3442 on: Today at 12:45:45 PM »
1917.


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