Dan was a good looking, successful New York lawyer. Alex was a good looking, successful worker at a publishing house in New York. They meet in a bar and start flirting big time. They go back to Alex’s apartment and have sex. Alex is very, very happy and thinks she’s found someone special.
The problem is, Dan’s married. Alex isn’t very happy that Dan plans on staying married. It’s the classic American love story.
“Fatal Attraction” came out 25 years ago today, the last great sex-thriller before AIDS changed the screenplay. It was a fascinating story of a guy who thinks he’s having a casual affair while his wife is out of town, but gets a whole helluva lot more than he bargained for.
Dan might have had to go to Tiffany and Co. to appease his wife after the Alex affair. Tiffany and Co. opened today in 1837 in New York City. The store presented itself as a “Stationary and Fancy Goods Emporium.”
Also on this day in NYC, 14 years later in 1851, the first edition of “The New York Daily Times” was published, it later became the New York Times.
On this day in 1927, CBS launched on the radio airwaves, 14 years later they would start in television. One of CBS’s better television shows made it’s debut today in 1978. WKRP in Cincinnati was a hit for CBS for it’s four year run, and it got nominated for the best comedy Emmy it’s first three years. CBS, in example 1 zillion of network meddling, began moving the show around to different days in it’s fourth season and the viewers couldn’t keep up. Three Emmy nominations and gone a year later.
Talk about the New Normal, The Addams Family premiered on ABC on September 18, 1964.
Jimi Hendrix was found dead in a London apartment today in 1970. The 27-year old had died on his own vomit while sleeping. Called the greatest guitar player ever by Rolling Stone, Hendrix was the first Seattle rock ‘n roll legend to die at 27, but he wouldn’t be the last.
Viewers of MTV were shocked when members of KISS appeared on their air today in 1983 sans makeup.
Happy birthday to Lance Armstrong, who was allegedly born on this day in 1971.
— Bill Hubbell