Day Tripping: October 22
Nyuk, Nyuk
Jerome Lester Horwitz was born in Brooklyn, New York the youngest of five children in 1903. He was a quiet child and not a very good student, but he was an excellent athlete on the school basketball team.
When he was 12, he accidentally shot himself with a rifle which caused him to walk with a slight limp the rest of his life. Jerome never finished high school so he took odd jobs and spent most of his time following his brothers around.
I”’m tryin’ to think, but nothin’ happens!”
Horwitz got his first stage role in 1928 and was so good, he upstaged the band. Jerome didn’t think much of it, preferring to follow the success of his brothers Moe and Shemp who were working with their cousin Larry Fine.
When Shemp left for better roles in 1932, Jerome filled in as Curly in the Three Stooges and the rest is history. But by 1944, Curly’s energy was sapping and several strokes followed afterward. His final performance with the Stooges was in the 1947 release, Half-Wits Holiday.
Jerome Curly Howard died in 1952 at the age of 48, but he will be forever remembered as a comic genius.
“If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.”
Whenever Curly couldn’t remember lines, he just improvised, falling on the floor and spinning around until the words came back. As far as anyone else knew, it was all part of his shtik.
Today is:
Eat a Pretzel Day — the big ballpark kind with mustard for me :)
Musical Ride
The Supremes became the first girl band to have a number #1 album on the US charts in 1966 with Supremes A’ Go-Go, knocking Revolver by The Beatles of its perch.
Interesting Notes
President John F. Kennedy appeared on national television in 1962 to announce the American discovery of mid-range missiles stockpiled on the island of Cuba. Kennedy told Americans that the Navy would blockade Russian vessels from entering the region. Russian Premier Khrushchev eventually backed down from the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Soviet fleet retreated.
Gone But Not Forgotten
Children of the fifties and sixties will always remember The Soupy Sales Show. The alter ego of Milton Supman delighted kids and adults for decades with his own brand of goofy antics. Milton Supman died in 2009 at age 83.
Notable Births
1811 — Franz Liszt said, “In life, one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.”
1920 — Timothy Leary said, “There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.”
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