Thursday, September 04, 2003

*Ø* Blogmanac September 4 | Some more about today

1928 Dick York (died February, 1992), American actor (TV series: Bewitched); iatrogenic addiction to painkilling drugs, due to a back injury, and bad investments put an end to his career and he and his wife were reduced to cleaning houses for a living. In his later years he dedicated his life to helping the homeless poor.

The Great Darrin Switch: a tale of sitcom hell

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1935 French feminist and existentialist author, Simone de Beauvoir, joined the bookstore Shakespeare and Company, 12, rue de l'Odeon, Paris. The shop’s place in literary history is assured by its association with such luminaries as Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Paul Valèry, André Gide, James Joyce, Allen Ginsburg, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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