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 →
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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 →
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 →
Toy Story 5 opens with a wedding. Bonnie, eight years old now, marries a plastic spork to a plastic knife in the backyard, casts Buzz Lightyear as best man and a tyrannosaur as maid... Read More →
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 →
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 →
The first class the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ever inducted, in the spring of 1986, included three men who had never played rock and roll and never would. One was a Mississippi... Read More →
Ask who was in the first class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and most people will hand you ten names: Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and the rest of the founding... Read More →
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 →
Hogwarts is, on the authority of J.K. Rowling herself, the most heavily haunted dwelling place in Britain. Given the competition on these islands, that is saying something. The castle contains, by the books’ own... Read More →
The 1937 film A Star Is Born received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Fredric March and Best Actress for Janet Gaynor. The 1954 musical remake received six nominations, including Best Actor... Read More →
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