Day Tripping: October 18

Puttin’ On The Ritz

Peter Boyle was born in 1935 and grew up around a father who was a local TV personality in Philadelphia. He began his career as a cameraman for a cooking show before taking a touring role of Murray the Cop in The Odd Couple. When they reached Chicago, Peter left the group to join Second City.

In 1970, Boyle got his first big movie role in Joe, a film which for the time was considered overly violent and crass for audiences. His performance was successful enough to be offered the lead in The French Connection, but Peter turned it down.

“It costs a lot of money to be rich.”

After starring with Robert Redford in The Candidate, comedy came calling in the form of Mel Brooks in 1974. Boyle’s comic portrayal of Frankenstein’s monster won him wide acclaim. Peter also met a reporter from Rolling Stone named Lorraine Alterman during filming. Boyle was still in costume when he asked her out.

Then, in 1977 with the help of Alterman’s friend, Yoko Ono, and becoming close friends, John Lennon stepped up as best man for the Boyle’s wedding. Peter Boyle appeared in many more successful films including another quirky comedy, Johnny Dangerously. Yet he will always be remembered as Ray Romano’s TV father on Everybody Loves Raymond.

Today is:

Chocolate Cupcake Day — the one we’ve all been waiting for!

Musical Ride

Guns N’ Roses were opening for the Rolling Stones in 1989 in Los Angeles when Axl Rose stopped the show and announced, “Unless certain people in this band get their s — t together, these will be the last Guns N’ Roses shows you’ll f — king ever see. Cause I’m tired of too many people in this organization dancing with Mr. G — damn Brownstone.”

His bandmates, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, and Steven Adler agreed to get off heroin.

Interesting Notes

The first all-female spacewalk took place outside the International Space Station in 2019 with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch.

Gone But Not Forgotten

Remember the transistor radio? The first edition was released in 1954 by Texas Instruments. Remember them too?

Notable Births

1926 — Chuck Berry said, “I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.”

1952 — Chuck Lorre said, “I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.”

1961 — Wynton Marsalis said, “When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?”

K. Barrett Maria Rattray Maryam Merchant Dr. Mehmet Yildiz Tree Langdon Myriam Ben Salem Phil Truman Chelsea Mandler MAT Terry Mansfield Hollie Petit, Ph.D. Terry Trueman Dr. Preeti Singh John Gruber Bill Abbate James G Brennan ScienceDuuude Marcus Liam Ireland Claire Kelly Noorain Hassan, BMS Amy Pierovich David Acaster Nora Thewriteyard David Perlmutter Joe Luca Holly Kellums Michael Burg, MD Lucy Dan Dave Logan

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