by David Krell | Feb 17, 2017 | David Krell
To say that Babe Ruth was a dominant force is like saying that Mount Vesuvius spewed a little lava. Firmly stands the Babe in popular culture, in part because of portrayals in films. “The pattern of the drama, with its Horatio Alger stamp—rags to riches and...
by David Krell | Nov 6, 2013 | David Krell
Ib Melchior’s special effects expert, David Hewitt, wrote a script entitled The Wizard of Mars. At the suggestion of his financial backers, he met with Felix Feist, a television director. Feist worked with Irwin Allen on the television series Voyage to the...
by David Krell | Jul 7, 2013 | David Krell
On this date in 1954, the Memphis airwaves debuted a singer. And rock and roll was never the same. The singer was Elvis Presley. WHBQ played his rendition of That’s All Right on July 7, 1954. Recorded two days prior in Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio,...
by David Krell | Jul 6, 2013 | David Krell
Clayton Moore is synonymous with the Lone Ranger. He played the character in The Lone Ranger television series that aired on ABC from 1949 to 1957. But he wasn’t the only actor to do so. Moore departed the series after the second season, only to be rehired a...
by David Krell | Jun 23, 2012 | David Krell
Jim Bouton peeled back the veneer protecting Major League Baseball in his 1970 exposé, Ball Four. It reads like a friend sharing secrets with you over a couple of beers at a baseball game. Bouton, a quasi-phenom pitcher in the early 1960s with the New York Yankees, he...
