6 random things that happened on this day, March 3rd, in showbiz history...
1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching the deaf and blind Helen Keller, a success story which becames even more wll known due to the hit play turned hit movie The Miracle Worker...
1985 Moonlighting premieres on ABC TV, a midseason replacement that becomes a major watercooler hit. The Globes immediately bite (as they are prone to do) and the Emmys get on board for season 2. The show makes Bruce Willis a star, running five seasons. Willis quickly simultaneously jumps to a major big screen career proving his bonafides three years later with Die Hard.
1989 Madonna drops her new single "Like a Prayer," an instant classic that remains one of her all time best. Maybe even the best single of her astonishing hit-heavy career.
2006 16 Blocks starring Bruce Willis and Mos Def opens in movie theaters as does the excellent musical documentary Dave Chappelle's Block Party. Remember that one?
2010 Eyesore in Wonderland, excuse me Alice in Wonderland, opens in movie theaters, quickly becoming the biggest hit of Tim Burton's career. That shoddy 3D spectacle, however hideous, arriving just after Avatar re-popularized 3D, proves to be perfect timing.
2017 Logan opens, marking the end of Hugh Jackman's long reign as Wolverine. It later becomes the first and only superhero film to be nominated for a writing Oscar... though four other comic-book related films have been nominated for writing (Ghost World, American Splendor, A History of Violence, and Joker).
Today's Birthday Suit
It's the 110th anniversary of the birth of Pre-Code sensation Jean Harlow the original "Platinum Blonde" or Blonde "Bombshell" (yes, those were two of her earliest star vehicles).
She made her official film debut in Howard Hughes' Hell's Angel (1930) -- you might recall she was played by Gwen Stefani in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator -- If you've never seen the very sexy Red Dust (1932) or the very funny Dinner at Eight (1933), you must. She tragically died in 1937 of kidney failure at just 26 years of age.
Other showbiz birthdays today Oscar winning auteur George Miller (Mad Max Fury Road, Happy Feet), Oscar nominee Miranda Richardson (Damage, Dance with a Stranger), Laura Harring (Mulholland Dr, The Shield), Katherine Waterson (World to Come, Inherent Vice), Emmy winnre Julie Bowen (Modern Family), Jessica Biel (Sinner, 7th Heaven), China's Tiger Chen (Man of Tai Chi, Triple Threat), Aarti Mann (Never Have I Ever, Big Bang Theory), Thomas Barbusca (The Mick, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp), South Korea's Cho Jin-woong (The Handmaiden, A Hard Day), Sandy Martin (Three Billboards, Napoleon Dynamite), Eric DaRe (Twin Peaks, Starship Troopers), Gloria Hendry (Live and Let Die, Black Belt Jones), Suraj Partha (Master of None, Ender's Game), personal trainer and Britney's boyfriend Sam Asghari, and singer Camila Cabello.
And other late greats like international beauty Gia Scala (Guns of Navarone, The Tunnel of Love), Star Trek's James Doohan, child star Bobby Driscoll (Treasure Island, Peter Pan)