David Lynch, the director behind Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet,
Mulholland Drive, and other works, died January 15th. His
family confirmed the passing on his official Facebook page.
The post announcing his death didn’t list a cause, but
last August, Lynch revealed that he had been diagnosed
with emphysema “from my many years of smoking.”
A 2001 neo-noir mystery film.
Bruce Willis showed his appreciation for those keeping
everyone in Los Angeles safe during the devastating
fires. (Emma Heming Willis Instagram)
The "Die Hard" star was making a rare public appearance since announcing his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2023.
(FOX NEWS)
On January 16, 1942, the actress Carole Lombard, famous for her
roles in such screwball comedies as My Man Godfrey and To Be
or Not to Be, and for her marriage to the actor Clark Gable, was
killed when the TWA DC-3 plane she is traveling in crashed en -
route from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. She was only 33.
Doug Scroggins of Las Vegas spent years documenting the crash
site on Mount Potosi which is 35 miles southwest of Las Vegas.
Scroggins said "Flight 3 crashed near the 8,300-foot level of Mount Potosi with flaps retracted, and the plane in level flight. Something happened inside that cockpit and happened so fast that the pilot
could not react.”
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
1939
A TWA DC-3, similar to the accident aircraft.
1948 EVERSHARP PEN AD.
Eversharp is an American brand of writing implements founded
by Charles Rood Keeran (below) in 1913 and marketed by Keeran
& Co., based in Chicago.
The company continued until 1957 when it was acquired by
Parker Pen, which continued to use the Eversharp brand for
a time.
Charles Rood Keeran (1883 – 1948)
The 1948 film with Humphrey Bogart shown in the above ad.
On January 15, 1972, “American Pie,”, an epic poem in musical
form that has long been etched in popular consciousness, hit
#1 on the Billboard charts.
The story of Don McLean’s magnum opus begins almost 13
years before its release, on a date with significance well-known
to any American who was alive and conscious at the time.
Tuesday February 3, 1959, was the date of the plane crash that
took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the J.P. “the
Big Bopper” Richardson—a date that would be imbued with
transcendent meaning by Don McLean when he labeled it
“the Day the Music Died.”
(l. to r.): Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens.
Donald McLean III will be 80 years old in October.
