Revisionist History (5/25): JFK vowed to destroy the Death Star by end of decade
Also: The Three Little Pigs and Ralph "Where's Waldo" Emerson
On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced his goal of putting a man on the moon – and cutting down on “broads and pills” – by the end of the decade.
On this day in 1977, eight years after JFK’s man on the moon, filmmaker George Lucas launched an intergalactic, cinematic space program that inspired a new generation of swashbuckling space movies and merchandise … “Star Wars.”
On this day in 1933, a new Walt Disney cartoon premiered at Radio City Music Hall featuring a trio of porky farm animals symbolizing the pink male patriarchy, “The Three Little Chauvinist Pigs.”
Today’s Birthdays:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): author of the influential “Where’s Waldo” series of books, essays and treatises.
Octavia Spencer, 54: Oscar-winning actress, helped JFK achieve his goal of putting a man on the moon in “Hidden Figures” and helped an amphibious blues musician escape from a government lab, “The Shape of Muddy Waters.”
Cillian Murphy, 48: actor, won Oscar for his portrayal of the “father of the atomic bomb,” John Jacob Oppenheimer Schmidt.
Mike Myers, 61: comedian, followed up his blockbuster 1992 film “Wayne’s World” by adapting Aldous Huxley’s futuristic 1932 novel into a big-screen comedy, “Wayne’s Brave New World.”
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