Sunday, July 31, 2016

Old Time Radio Show of the Week - Suspense

SUSPENSE
"End Game"
July 31st 1960
A chess master is forced to play a game against a mad sheriff...with murder as the stakes

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

1989 MLB All Star Game MVP


Bo Jackson of the Kansas City Royals, winner of the 1989 Major League Baseball All Star Game MVP Award.  Bo led off the bottom of the 1st with a monstrous home run to dead center field of Anaheim Stadium.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

NY Times Bestseller List (Non-Fiction) July 17th 2016

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Non-Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending July 17th 2016


10 - The Rainbow Comes and Goes - Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
(12 weeks on list)

9  -  White Trash - Nancy Isenberg
(2 weeks on list)
The role of white poor in American history

8  -  Between The World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
(51 weeks on list)

7  -  Wake Up America - Eric Bolling
(Debut)
The Fox News Channel personality describes nine key American virtues that he maintains are under attack by President Obama and Hillary Clinton.

6  -  Tribe - Sebastion Junger
(6 weeks on list)

5  -  Grit - Angela Duckworth
(9 weeks on list)

4  -  Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies : The Patriots
(6 weeks on list) (5 weeks at #1)

3  -  Hamilton : The Revolution - Lin Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
(12 weeks on list)

2  -  When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
(25 weeks on list)

1  -  Crisis of Character - Gary J. Byrne with Grant Schmidt
(Debut)
A former Secret Service officer claims to have witnessed scandalous behavior by the Clintons.


NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (July 17th 2016)

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending July 17th 2016


10 - All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(113 weeks on list)

9  -  Foreign Agent - Brad Thor 
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  Before The Fall - Noah Hawley 
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  After You - Jojo Moyes 
(19 weeks on list)

6  -  Here's To Us - Elin Hilderbrand
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(77 weeks on list)

4  -  End of Watch - Stephen King
(4 weeks on list) (3 consecutive weeks at #1)

3  -  The Girls - Emma Cline
(3 weeks on list)

2  -  The Games  - James Patterson and Mark Sullvian
(Debut)
Hired by Olympic organizers to protect the Rio games, Jack Morgan of Private, an international security and consulting firm, encounters dangerous threats.

1  -  First Comes Love - Emily Griffin
(Debut)
Two Sisters - one a successful lawyer with a small child and an unhappy marriage, the other a single teacher who yearns to be a mother - struggle toward forgiveness after 15 years of estrangement.


Monday, July 11, 2016

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

July 6th 1994
"Forrest Gump" is released in US theaters and be the 2nd biggest money making movie of the year behind "The Lion King".  The movie would win the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) and Best Actor (Tom Hanks) of 1994. 


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