Big City, the Bus Driver, and Merle
The fine music writer Marc Myers recently wrote a great story for the Wall Street Journal about how Merle Haggards’s classic, Big City came about:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304302704579334773204348540
Johnny, Joan, and Tallulah
With all the hoopla over Jimmy Fallon taking over the Tonight Show, it’s nice to take a reality check and remember THE BEST host the Tonight Show ever had, or will have — Johnny Carson. Our Southern Living would like to report that Southerners appeared as guests on the first two shows which aired on October 1 and 2, 1962 — Joan Crawford and Tallulah Bankhead. Legendary film actress Joan Crawford (1904-1977) was born...
Bubba Returns
Bubba Watson’s win at the Northern Trust Open — at the historic Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades — is his first win since the 2012 Masters. The win returns him to number 14 on the Official World Golf rankings. Born in Florida, Watson played golf at Faulkner State Community College before transferring to the University of Georgia. At Georgia, he was a member of the team that won the SEC title in 2000....
Sammy Going South
Sammy Going South (or as American audiences know it, A Boy Ten Feet Tall) is one fabulous movie about the Southland. The only thing, the “South” mentioned in Sammy is Durban, South Africa. Sammy Hartland is a ten year old boy living in Port Said, Egypt during the Suez Crisis in the mid 1950s, when Egyptian President Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal which had been under the control and protection of the British government. Sammy’s...
Richard Bradford — Texas via London
One of the most overlooked actors of all time — Richard Bradford. star of Man in a Suitcase, a 1967/68 British television import broadcast on ABC. Bradford was a Texan who had a football scholarship to Texas A&M before injuring himself. He then tried baseball at Texas State but he didn’t attend enough classes to stay on the team, so he decided to try New York. He was admitted to the Actors Studio which led to his...