XXXXXX, 2022 June 1, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 1, 1961
TELEVISION is not having the adverse effect on children that some critics claim.
Dr Abraham oppenheim, an expert on the subject of TV and the child, yesterday said there was no evidence of eye-strain or lack of concentration. Nor did the child TV viewer read any less than other children. JUNE 1, 1990 MADONNA’S management was furious last night after police decided the singer’s stage act wasn’t raunchy enough to ban.
The star issued a statement claiming: ‘I would rather have cancelled the show than let anybody dictate how I can or can’t express myself as an artist. This is certainly a cause for which I am willing to be arrested.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HEIDI KLUM, 49. The German supermodel and America’s Got Talent judge won a modelling competition at 18 but said she initially struggled to be accepted into the fashion industry ‘because I had boobs, hips and a big smile on my face’. Asked about her preferred style of knickers, Klum, a successful lingerie businesswoman, said: ‘The smaller, the better.’ MORGAN FREEMAN, 85. The U.S. actor, who has twice been cast as God, was handpicked by Nelson Mandela in the 1990s to play him on film, which he later did in 2009’s Invictus. Freeman, who won an oscar for his part in Million Dollar Baby and also starred in The Shawshank redemption, described the opportunity as an ‘everlasting honour’, and said: ‘I told him that I’d have to hold his hand and watch him up close and personal.’ Thus began a 20-year friendship.
BORN ON THIS DAY
CLEAVON LITTLE (1939-1992). The Emmy and Tony award-winning U.S. actor with ‘a manic, live-wire comic energy’ made his name as the star of 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles. Its director, Mel Brooks, called him ‘the most cooperative actor I ever worked with’, adding that ‘he even insisted on doing his own stunts’, including one that saw him buried up to his neck in mud. MARILYN MONROE (1926-1962). The U.S. actress, star of Some Like It Hot, was born Norma Jeane Mortenson. She took her new first name from Broadway star Marilyn Miller, while Monroe was her mother’s maiden name. After a tempestuous ninemonth marriage to baseball legend Joe DIMAGGIO, in 1956 she wed playwright Arthur Miller, describing their first encounter as ‘like running into a tree...like a cool drink when you’ve had a fever’.
ON JUNE 1…
IN 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was crowned queen in Westminster Abbey. IN 2005, Crazy Frog (right) was at UK No 1 with Axel F, the first mobile phone ringtone to top the charts.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Lemma (c 1560s) A) A sign, an omen. B) A book carried for reference. C) An argument or subject.
Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
In a brown study: Meaning to be in a mood in which you are very involved in your own thoughts; ‘brown’ originally meant ‘dark’, which then extended to gloomy or serious.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux, French novelist (1901-1976)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY was the man looking forlorn? Someone had stolen his grass. Guess The Definition answer: C. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD