Celebration Excuse
“The Rock” is no more (Clint Eastwood will miss you), Hollywood gets the computer animation bug, and U.S. Olympic athletes are really pissed. It’s March 21 and here’s why Mic Check’s thinking of changing names.
1935
Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran. Mic Check wants to know, isn’t 2,000 years a little too late in the game to change your name?
1952
The Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, is held. Rockers are understandably dismayed by the un-hardcore name and decide to head bang at home.
1963
Alcatraz closes down and prisoners are floored they won’t ever get to reenact “Escape From Alcatraz.”
1965
Hallelujah! Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 sweaty people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1971
The first movie to use computer animation opens and actors in dinosaur costumes and neck braces everywhere rejoice. (Try filming a Quidditch game pre-computer
animation.)
1980
President Jimmy Carter announces a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. 28 years later, Tibet is crossing its fingers for a repeat this year in China.
A Birthday Fugue For You
1685: Johann Bach, classical music composer you listened to in the womb
1962: Actress Rosie O’Donnell, the talk show host who talked too much on “The View”
1978: K-Fed, enterprising hip hop “artist” and antihero of Britney’s “E True Hollywood Story”
Daybook
Potus
Retreats back to Camp David to forget about the economy.
Stumpin’
Last chance for independent presidential candidates to eat potatoes and get ballot access for general election in Idaho.
Congress
Senate
Meets at 11 a.m. in pro forma session.
House
Not in session…Spring District Work Period.
TV
Watch at work
Oprah: Polygamy in America: Lisa Ling Reports (R 10/26/07) The View: ultra friendly David Schwimmer, Thandie Newton, Natasha Bedingfield
Regis & Kelly: Katherine Hiegl, Anthony Hopkins, Casey Affleck, Jarod Miller
Martha: Easter show!
Ellen: Leslie Mann, “Dancing with the Stars” combo Marlee Matlin and Fabian Sanchez, singer Erykah Badu
Stay up late
Letterman: Sean “Diddy” Combs, Al Lubel (R 2/22/08)
Leno: X-rated radio host Adam Carolla, journalist Geraldo Rivera, the Black Crowes
Ferguson: Ben Kingsley, Laura Prepon, Lupe Fiasco
Conan: heartthrob Ryan Phillippe, Big Show
Daly: ex-Vice contributor Gavin McInnes, Marisa “Perfect 10” Miller, Shiny Toy Guns
Kimmel: interior designer Nate Berkus, Mary J. Blige, Missy Higgins (R 2/26/08)
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