Today, I learned that in 1998, Ving Rhames won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Made For TV Movie – then got on stage and gave it to Jack Lemmon, who he had just beaten. Truly bad-ass.
Why am I looking up Jack Lemmon? Check back in on Monday!
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So how is the abandoned pit bull that everyone helped to rescue doing in her new home? Er, resting comfortably! I just got an email from her new owners, and I’m happy to report that everything is going great! “Penelope” is now a resident of Washington, D.C. When she arrived at her new home, she…
The 71st floor observatory of the Chrysler Building, circa 1930. Wow: Opened in 1930, the observatory featured a solar system motif, complete with a starburst roof and planet-like lamps. The observatory closed in 1945, and was gutted sometime later. More pictures here; sad pictures of the upper floors in an abandoned state here (also since…
Just a reminder – you have one week left to enter the Scouting NY Halloween contest! All you have to do is send in a picture of a place that feels particularly haunted – could be a house, a cemetery, an abandoned building – anything! Simply dig up a picture of your entry (doesn’t have…
UPDATE! Since the offer was made on January 14, not only did we hit the $500 mark for the match donation, we’re up to $760 $810 $820 $876 $966.50 $1,100.09 and counting! Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed, both today and in the past. It means so much to have such awesome…
I spent the earlier part of today trolling through the factories of East Williamsburg/Bushwick looking for interesting blocks that could stand-in for an industrial section of Manhattan. One of the great parts about walking through these otherwise deserted stretches of Brooklyn are the smells. There are lots of factories making various food products, and different…
Continuing west on US-56, we drove through Scranton (population: 724). Not much was going on… One building of note: a former Methodist church converted to a garage (you can just make out the big roll-gates on the right): Across the street was this abandoned gas station, and I was really intrigued by the sign on…
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The Out of Towners?
I watched this when it happened. Great moment.
My favorite moment in award show history, though, is Forest Whitaker’s speech at the Oscars when he won for Last King of Scotland. Dignified, gracious, inspiring, and from the heart.
ps. The Apartment?