Today:
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 49. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
High temperatures are forecast to drop sharply by Friday as a weather system moves through the region.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1778 Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the ‘Sandwich Islands’ after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich.
1782 Birth of Daniel Webster, congressman from New Hampshire, Massachusetts senator, and secretary of state before the Civil War.
1836 Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders.
1858 Birth of Daniel Hale Williams, physician who performed the first open heart surgery, founder of Chicago’s Provident Hospital.
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The sceptic’s witticism that the reason the sun never set on the British empire was that even God did not trust an Englishman in the dark might well merit recalling in the context of a post-Brexit Britain which, at the stroke of midnight on the eve of the new year, kept its tryst with disunity from the European Union with PM Boris Johnson exulting in his country’s ‘freedom’ from the bureaucratic bondage of Brussels.
In 1999, The American Film Institute named Cary Grant the second greatest male screen legend in U.S. movie history, with only Humphrey Bogart topping him. During his lifetime he was already iconic among his peers, with Tony Curtis imitating him to woo Marilyn Monroe in the comedy classic
Some Like It Hot (1959).
And Grant is still popular today, as his transcending-his-period performances seem timeless after 80+ years, despite his last film being released in 1966, and having died almost 35 years ago. Local SF/British film critic David Thomson considers Grant the most important actor in cinema history.
All these accolades are no surprise to his latest biographer, former literary critic Scott Eyman, chronicler of other Hollywood luminaries such as John Wayne, Cecil B. DeMille, John Ford, Henry Fonda and James Stewart. Eyman felt enough time had passed to reassess Grant the man and his career before many of the people who knew him died.
Indiana Jones fans might find it hard to imagine anyone other than John Rhys-Davies playing Sallah. But before Rhys-Davies was cast, the role almost went to Danny DeVito.