ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SEPTEMBER 7, 1971
BARBRA STREISAND and Elliott Gould have done wonders for the Dominican Republic’s foreign currency reserves. Their divorce there in July has made the Caribbean Island the leading ‘quickie splitsville’ of the Western hemisphere. Since then, 250 American couples have flown in for 72- hour, £ 200 divorces, and it has overtaken Haiti, which claims to be able to deliver a final decree in only 24 hours.
SEPTEMBER 7, 1982
TERRy WoGAN overslept and was nearly an hour late for his radio breakfast show yesterday. It meant Ken Bruce got more than he bargained for on his Radio Two debut. He had to overrun by an hour until a breathless Wogan arrived. Said Wogan: ‘It was the best night’s sleep I’ve had in ages.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SoNNy RoLLINS, 92. The
U. S. saxophonist, who played with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, has been hailed as ‘jazz’s greatest living improviser’. Dissatisfied with his music in 1959, he spent two years playing on a New york bridge in sessions of up to 15 hours. He called his comeback album The Bridge. In 2014, Rollins gave up his instrument owing to the lung disease pulmonary fibrosis. ToBy JoNES, 56. The actor from London played Captain Mainwaring in the 2016 film version of Dad’s Army and Dobby the house elf in the Harry Potter movies. He also played an irritating fan of Julia Roberts’s character in Notting Hill, but the scene ended up on the cutting-room floor. He says he often cries watching TV’s Dragons’ Den: ‘Because, well, they’re dreamers, aren’t they? There’s something that touches me.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
MIRA FURLAN (1955-2021). The Croatian-born actress starred in 25 films but made her name in hit TV dramas Babylon 5 — set on a space station in the mid- 23rd century — and Lost. Dubbed
‘the Balkan Meryl Streep’, she was writing her autobiography when she was ill and dying. She said she was not afraid and had been reminded of a line from her Babylon 5 character: ‘We are star stuff.’ ELIA KAZAN (1909-2003). The Istanbulborn U.S. director made A Streetcar Named Desire and East of Eden. After pioneering ‘method acting’, winning three Tony awards and introducing Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller to Broadway, he abandoned the stage, declaring: ‘There is no damned theatre any more. I hate the theatre. Movies is where all the action is.’
ON SEPTEMBER 7…
IN 1921, The first Miss America beauty pageant was held.
IN 2003, The Black Eyed Peas started six weeks at UK No.1 with Where Is The Love?
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Cockade (c1650s)
A) A rosette worn on a hat.
B) Diagonally across from something else. C) A booming roar. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
Dip your toe into something: Meaning to do or try out something with caution; it alludes to the image of putting your toe briefly into water to check the temperature
QUOTE FOR TODAY
THE world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Writer and politician (1803-1873)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHy was music coming from the printer? The paper was jamming.
GUESS The Definition answer: A Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD