Day Tripping: October 29

Storm Ryder

Laura Horowitz was born in Winona, Minnesota in 1971. Her parents are both authors and editors, and Laura’s father once worked with Timothy Leary as an archivist.

Named for her hometown, laura’s first name is actually Winona. But her family moved to California when she was ten where school thugs bullied her, mistaking her for a boy.

“The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.”

Winona earned her first film role in Lucas when she was only fourteen. It was then she chose to use the name Ryder as her stage name. With the help of director Tim Burton, Winona Ryder’s rise to fame was rapid.

Her success in Beetlejuice was followed by Edward Scissorhands and then a starring role next to Daniel Day Lewis in Age of Innocence. The Martin Scorcese film earned Ryder a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar nomination in 1993.

Winona took a five-year hiatus while suffering from a stomach disorder and getting arrested for shoplifting in 2001. All her life she stuggled with depression and anti-semitism. Her father, whose family had all peished in the Holocaust, was not religious. But Winona has always identified as Jewish.

Ryder has since returned to successful roles in the movie Star Trek as Spock’s mother, and the television hit, Stranger Things. She has given much of her spare time and financial aid to college funds for less fortunate Native Americans.

Today is:

Pancake Day — Stack ’em up and pour on some pure Canadian maple syrup.

Musical Ride

In 1983, Dark Side Of The Moon broke the record of 491 consecutive weeks on the Biilboard charts, passing Johnny’s Greatest Hits by Johnny Mathis. The Pink Floyd album stayed on the chart for another five years, finally dropping off in 1988 after 724 weeks.

Interesting Notes

Madame Tussaud’s wax museum auctioned off the wax figures that adorned the cover of The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover in 2005. The renditions of the four young mop-tops, which had been gathering dust in a back room, fetched over 81,000 English pounds.

Gone But Not Forgotten

Founding member and guitarist for the Allman Brothers band, Duane Allman, died in a motorcylce accident in 1971 at the age of 24.

Notable Births

1942 — Bob Ross said, “Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”

1947 — Richard Dreyfuss said, “I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.”

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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