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This is sort of a history of cereals we enjoyed as kids. Cereal actually started as a granola style concoction in the 1800’s that needed to be soaked in liquid to soften it up. Water made it soggy but the milk did the trick!
So which was your favorite as a kid? How about now as an adult? My all-time favorite is probably Lucky Charms. I also like Count Chocula from time to time. Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, Wheaties have stood the test of time unlike fad cereals like Mr. T and CP3Os . But what about Crispy Critters? Wow, think about that!
In September 1993 still fresh off Johnny Carson’s retirement Fox Network wanted to get in the late-night talk show circuit. Dolly Parton was considered but her agent said no but recommended Chevy Chase who signs a $3 million contract. Chevy also secured the ownership right like Carson.
Fox was so confident
in the show’s success they even went so far as to spend $1 million
in renovating the old Aquarius Theater on Sunset Boulevard in Los
Angeles, then renaming it the Chevy Chase Theater.
Chase found it
difficult to connect with his guests but was comfortable with his
skits. The biggest issue was that he had trouble connecting with the
audience which was apparent with many of the skits falling flat with
them.
After five weeks or 29 shows, Fox pulled the plug. They promised sponsors 5-6 million viewers nightly but the average was fewer than 3 million. In the last week, it dropped below 2 million viewers.
Within 2 days of the show’s cancellation workers dismantled and painted over the Chevy Chase Theater sign. It is currently known as the Nickelodeon on Sunset and at the time of the writing, Google says it is permanently closed.
In an interview with A&E Biography interview “an entirely different concept than what was pushed on me. I would never do it again. What I wanted to have a whole different feel to it, much darker and more improv. But we never got there.”
May 11, 1997 saw one of the most important milestones in human history
occur. Strangely, it was attained at the expense of humans. On that
date in New York City, Garry Kasparov, the reigning world chess champion
and one of the greatest players of all time, lost the deciding game of a
six-game series to an IBM computer nicknamed Deep Blue. Kasparov
resigned after only 19 moves, giving Deep Blue the match with a record
of two wins, one loss, and three draws. The previous year, Kasparov had
beaten an inferior version of Deep Blue four games to two in a series
played in Philadelphia. To those in the computer industry, the triumph
of Deep Blue was a cause for celebration. To many chess followers and
ordinary folks, however, the result was ominous: Artificial
intelligence had surpassed one of the great minds in human history.
Here is a six-minute video about the 1997 event.
After losing, Kasparov said that he sometimes saw deep intelligence and creativity in the machine’s moves, implying that during the second game, human chess players did some of the moves of the machine, which would be a violation of the rules. IBM denied cheating, saying the only human intervention occurred between games. The rules allowed the developers to modify the program between games, an opportunity they said they used to shore up weaknesses in the strategy of the computer which was revealed during the match. Kasparov requested printouts of the machine’s log files, however IBM refused. Later, IBM published the logs on the Internet.
Both videos were recorded on October 29, 2009 at their home in Monroe – Stepney home. I don’t know why she had a WV pillow behind her.
Since 1952 the Warrens have been the directors of the New England Society for Psychic Research and they have investigated over 4,000 hauntings. Here is a detailed early history of how they met. Here is Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJeUcyS82g
Ed and Lorraine Warren ghost hunters always called Connecticut home. I had the privileged of interviewing Lorraine on October 29, 2009 and posted it right away. I forgot about Part 2 but many have asked for it so here it is. Part 1 can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow2RgO30lPk
When we left off at the early years interview Ed was in the north Atlantic when the US Navy ship he was onboard collided with another ship and Ed’s strong ability to swim helped save a shipmate who did not know how to swim. Lorraine’s had appendix ruptured and doctors were afraid to operate. In Part 2 we pick up with Ed and Lorraine’s marriage and how they became know as “Artists on the Hill” in Stepney Village in Monroe, Connecticut way before their ghost-busting days.
You have to love Jerry Seinfeld’s perspective on when he goes to
pickup his reservation at the airport and they run out of the midsize
car he reserved.
Before he was George Costanza he peddled the failed McDLT’s for McDonalds. He even had hair in this commercial! The beef stays hot, the lettuce and tomato stays cool.
