By the time James Cameron took the stage to accept his Academy
Award for Best Director on the night of March 23, 1998, the Oscar dominance of his blockbuster film Titanic was all but assured.
Titanic tied the record for most Oscar nominations with 14—joining 1950’s All About Eve—and by night’s end would tie with Ben Hur
(1959) for most wins by sweeping 11 categories, including the
coveted Best Picture.
The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical drama film produced
and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by
Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr,
and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959
stage musical, composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics
by Oscar Hammerstein II.
On November 21, 1980, 350 million people around the world
tuned in to television’s popular primetime drama “Dallas” to
find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate.
J.R. had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous
March 21, which now stands as one of television’s most famous cliffhangers.
The plot twist inspired widespread media coverage and left
America wondering “Who shot J.R.?” for the next eight
months.
The November 21 episode solved the mystery, identifying Kristin Shepard, J.R.’s wife’s sister-in-law and his former mistress, as
the culprit.
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012)
LA County Fire Station 127, the original location for Station
51 on the TV show "Emergency!"
Emergency! is a action-adventure medical drama television series
jointly produced by Mark VII Limited and Universal Television.
The series debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on January
15, 1972, replacing the two short-lived situation comedy series The
Partners and The Good Life.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
L-R: Kevin Tighe, Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup
and Randolph Mantooth.
Real-life Dispatcher, Sam Lanier, made several appearances throughout the series.
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Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which originally ran from September 28, 1961, until August 30, 1966 for a total of 191 episodes over five seasons Produced by MGM Television.
The TV series quickly achieved success and made a star of Richard Chamberlain, who played the title role. Dr. Kildare.
George Richard Chamberlain will
be 88 years old on March 31st.
