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Monthly Archives: August 2011
These are the people in my neighborhood…
Notable current and former residents (most born and raised) in Bensonhurst include…
Carl Sagan… who knew?
Plus…
- Steve Augeri (born 1959), musician.
- Rich Aurilia, baseball player San Francisco Giants
- Scott Baio, actor (Chachi/Charles in Charge)
- Abe Burrows, playwright, writer of Guys and Dolls and Can-Can
- Kerry Butler, actress
- Victor Calderone, club music dj and producer
- Vincent D’Onofrio, actor Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Vic Damone, singer
- Millie Deegan (1919–2002), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
- Joey Fatone, singer (member of boy band ‘N Sync)
- Jerry Ferrara, actor Entourage
- Daniel Franzese, actor (film Mean Girls)
- Harvey Fierstein, actor, playwright and screenwriter
- Marshall Flaum (1925–2010), documentary filmmaker.
- John Franco, baseball player New York Mets
- Daniel Glass, music producer
- Gary David Goldberg, television producer
- Elliott Gould, actor
- Philip Habib, diplomat
- Barbra Streisand, singer, actress
- Buddy Hackett, comedian
- Kenny Hickey, Johnny Kelly, and Peter Steele (rock band Type O negative)
- Richard Jeni, comedian
- Curly Howard, of the Three Stooges
- Moe Howard, of the Three Stooges
- Shemp Howard, of the Three Stooges
- Gabe Kaplan, actor, comedian, and professional poker player
- Larry King, talk show host
- Artie Kornfeld, Songwriter/Producer, Creator of Woodstock Music & Arts Festival 1969
- Sandy Koufax, baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers
- Adam Lazzara, lead singer of local band “Taking Back Sunday”
- Paul Lo Duca, baseball player
- Paul Malignaggi (born 1980), professional boxer
- Tony Mamaluke, former ECW star
- Robert Merrill, operatic baritone
- Man Parrish, music producer and artist
- Rhea Perlman, actress
- Iggy Pop, musician
- Leah Remini, actress
- Carl Sagan, astronomer/teacher/author
- Steve Schirripa, actor in HBO’s The Sopranos
- Tony Sirico, actor in HBO’s The Sopranos
- Ralph Snyderman,physician, scientist, administrator
- Ray Suarez, news correspondent
- Anthony J. Terlato, Winemaker, Horatio Alger Award Winner, “Father of Pinot Grigio” in the U.S.
- The Sbarro pizza chain restaurants have their roots in the neighborhood
- Batman villain Harley Quinn has recently been established as being from Bensonhurst
Faces of Israel | 500 People in 100 Seconds
STOP MOTION IN STOP MOTION
By Eran Amir. The massive amounts of work, creativity, and planning that this project must have required is mind-boggling.
Statler: I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t watched it. | Waldorf: Believe what? | Statler: I don’t know – I wasn’t watching.
OK Go & The Muppets | Muppet Show Theme Song
Watch the “Making Of” – Link in Comments Section.
“Some heades haue taken two headis better then one: / But ten heads without wit, I wene as good none.” ⎯John Heywood, 1546 (Old English)
Backyard Superman | All the Things You Are
Filmmaker/Animator Sergej Hein’s final year University project.
“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” ⎯Robert Kennedy
A REAL, WORKING REPLICATOR!
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I first saw this on my friend Rod Roddenberry’s FB where I commented, “In a word… FASCINATING!”
Check out this one, also courtesy of Rod…
“I’m from Brooklyn, I be everywhere comfortably.” ⎯ Lil’Kim
8 Hours in Brooklyn
Next Level Pictures, Director & Cinematographer: Jonathan Bregel
Boarding School Girls Gone Wild in Coney Island
Get a glass of lemonade, start the victrola [i.e., first press ‘play’ on the video in 2nd video below], and enjoy this beach trip, replete with “macro bikinis.”
The young ladies from Miss Knapp’s Select School have an outing in 1905. (From a 35mm print.)
Billy Murray singing “Come take a Trip in my Air Ship,” on the Victor Monarch Label from 1903-4.
“It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.” —Richard Paul Evans
Improv Everywhere | Mp3 Experiment 8
What happens when over 3,500 people in NYC download an MP3 file and press play simultaneously
“I’m not funny. What I am is brave.” ⎯Lucille Ball
Remembering Lucy | Centennial
Lucy’s Only Religious Broadcast:
Rare Color Footage:
Fred’s Last TV Appearance:
jim espo's GRASSHOPPER PLANET 