ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JANUARY 14, 1958
Extra police were called out to control fans gathering for the all-pink wedding in Hollywood tonight of film actress Jayne Mansfield to muscle-man Mickey Hargitay, an ex-Mr Universe. the chapel was decorated with pink roses, Jayne was wearing a pink dress, with pink pearls. there were pink candles on the altar and even pink-tinted sandwiches at the reception.
JANUARY 14, 1986
HE stoMps, he struts and finally he punches the air as thousands of screaming fans roar their approval. rock star George Michael is being paid £1 million for the one-off 30-second advertisement for Diet Coke to rival the selling power of Michael Jackson, snapped up last year by pepsi-Cola for £7 million.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
FayE DUnaway, 80. the U.s. star of Bonnie and Clyde ( right) won an academy award for 1976’s network, but her more memorable oscars moment came in 2017 when she was given the wrong envelope and announced La La Land as the winner of Best picture (Moonlight had actually won). she is known for using a set of scales at a restaurant to weigh her food. sir trEvor nUnn, 81. the suffolk-born former artistic director for the royal shakespeare Company and the national theatre said the job was like ‘juggling plates, while riding a unicycle, on a tightrope, over niagara Falls’. He plans to stage every shakespeare play before he retires.
BORN ON THIS DAY
riCHarD BriErs (19342013). the actor, born in surrey, is best remembered for playing tom Good in sitcom the Good Life. the character was so beloved that Briers said fans were disappointed when they met him and discovered he had become ‘an old git with white hair’. By the time he was diagnosed with emphysema, Briers estimated he had smoked half a million cigarettes. ZUZana rUZiCkova (1927-2017). the Czech-born harpsichordist was the first person to record all Bach’s works for keyboard, which ran to 20 CDs. ruzickova, who was Jewish, survived three nazi concentration camps. when she was being deported in a cattle truck to auschwitz, she scribbled a section of a Bach suite on a scrap of paper as a ‘talisman’. she was dismayed when it blew away into another truck, but when her mother found it, she knew ruzickova was alive.
ON JANUARY 14 . . .
IN 1957, american actor Humphrey Bogart died, aged 57. IN 1969, sir Matt Busby announced his decision to step down as manager of Manchester United after 24 years.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Gazetted (c1600) a) to become a commissioned army officer. B) to be hanged in chains. C) put up for sale. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED Bear garden: a place that is full of noise and contention; from tudor days, when bears were baited and then attacked by dogs in gardens as entertainment.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Don’t lose your temper, use it. Dolly Parton, U.S. singer-songwriter
JOKE OF THE DAY
wHat do you call James Bond taking a bath? Bubble 07. Guess The Definition answer: A.