Every Triple Crown of Acting Winner
There is no Triple Crown of Acting. No academy hands it out, no committee meets to confer it, no statuette exists for the shelf. The phrase was lifted from horse racing – where a... Read More →
Author: Jax Cole
Every Winner at the First Grammy Awards (1959)
On the night of May 4, 1959, the recording industry handed out its first Grammy Awards at two black-tie dinners held at the same hour on opposite coasts – one in the Grand Ballroom... Read More →
Every Toy in Toy Story 5
Toy Story 5 opens with a wedding. Bonnie, eight years old now, marries a plastic spork to a plastic knife named Karen Beverly, casts Buzz Lightyear as best man and a tyrannosaur as maid... Read More →
Every Member of the First Baseball Hall of Fame Class (1936)
There was a second ballot in 1936, and it elected nobody. Alongside the writers choosing the modern stars, a panel of seventy-eight old-timers was asked to pick the great players of the nineteenth century,... Read More →
Every Charter Member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963)
When the Pro Football Hall of Fame first opened its doors, five of the seventeen men it was enshrining were not alive to see it. Joe Carr had been dead twenty-four years; Jim Thorpe,... Read More →
Every EGOT Winner in History, in the Order They Won
In 1984, a Miami Vice actor named Philip Michael Thomas began wearing a gold medallion stamped with four letters: EGOT. He told a reporter he expected to win all four awards it stood for... Read More →
Every Recording on the Voyager Golden Record (Music)
The one piece of music Carl Sagan’s committee wanted most never made it aboard. They asked for the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” and the Beatles themselves agreed. The record company that owned the... Read More →
Every Early Influence Inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Robert Johnson had been dead for forty-eight years when the Hall of Fame put him in its founding class of 1986 – not through the Performer wing, but by way of a separate honor... Read More →
Every Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Inaugural Class
Ask who was in the first class of the Rock Hall and most people will hand you ten names: Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and the rest of the founding performers. The ten everyone... Read More →
Every Act That Refused, Boycotted, or Skipped Its Rock Hall Induction
Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is something that happens to you whether you want it or not. There is no application and nothing to sign. A nominating committee puts your... Read More →
