Sunday
Jul242016
Amelia, Nixon, Byrne, Wonder Woman, and the Original "Death of Superman"
Sunday, July 24, 2016 at 10:30AM On this day in history as it relates to the movies...
1802 Alexandre Dumas is born. He dies just before cinematic technology begins to blossom so he couldn't have known that his novels like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers series, and Queen Margot will all be adapted multiple times in a new artform.
1821 Gang leader William Poole, "Bill the Butcher" is born. Daniel Day-Lewis taps his fictional glass eye 181 years later on the big screen...