Thursday, April 17, 2025

The Penguins are out of the playoffs:

Always next season.

Go Pens!


Pittsburgh Penguins


Thursday, April 17, 2025

Pittsburgh Penguins: 5. Washington Capitals: 2

YEAH!

GO PENS!


On this day in music history - Beyond the Crossroads, by Peter Karp & Sue Foley (2012):


Beyond the Crossroads

Album by Peter Karp & Sue Foley,
released April 17, 2012.

Track list:

We're Gonna Make It; Analyze'n Blues; Beyond The Crossroads; Fine Love; At The Same Time; Take Your Time; More Than I Bargained For; Blowin'; Resistance; Chance Of Rain; Plank Spank; You've Got A Problem.

On this day in music history - Desperado, by the Eagles (1973):


Desperado

Album by the Eagles,
released April 17, 1973.

Track list:

Doolin-Dalton (1999 Remaster); Twenty-One (1999 Remaster); Out of Control (1999 Remaster); Tequila Sunrise (1999 Remaster); Desperado (1999 Remaster); Certain Kind of Fool (1999 Remaster); Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental) [1999 Remaster]; Outlaw Man (1999 Remaster); Saturday Night (1999 Remaster); Bitter Creek (1999 Remaster); Doolin-Dalton / Desperado (Reprise) [1999 Remaster].

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):


M Squad

Season 2. Episode 29.
Episode entitled: The Fire Makers.
Released April 17, 1959.
Directed by Don Medford.
Written by Frank Moss.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, James Coburn, Leonard Nimoy, Georgine Darcy, Milton Frome, Steven Ritch, Maida Severn, Helen Conrad, Bud and Travis, Frank O’Connor.

Born on this day – Olivia Hussey:


Olivia Hussey


Actress

April 17, 1951 – December 27, 2024

Credits:

2008 Camie Awards (2008); Acting in the Sixties (1967); All the Right Noises (1970); An Audience with Mel Brooks (1983); Bad English I: Tales of a Son of a Brit (1995); Batman Beyond (2000); Black Christmas (1974); Black Christmas Legacy (2015); Boy Meets World (1997); Chinaman's Chance: America's Other Slaves (2008); Clarkworld (2009); Cup Fever (1965); Dead Man's Island (1996); Death on the Nile (1978); Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (1978); Distortions (1988); Drama 61-67 (1964); E! True Hollywood Story (1998); El grito (2000); Entertainment Tonight (1986); Fractured Skulls: The Making of Headspace (2006); Greatest Ever Christmas Movies (2013); Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006); H-Bomb (1976); Headspace (2005); Hour Magazine (1984); I Married a Princess (2005); Ice Cream Man (1995); Into the Night (1990); Island Prey (2001); It (1990); Ivanhoe (1982); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994); Lost Horizon (1973); Miss Hollywood 1986 (1986); Mother Teresa (2003); Murder, She Wrote (1985); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Now and Then (1967–1968); Our World (1967); Pinky and the Brain (1998); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Quest of the Delta Knights (1993); Romeo and Juliet (1968); Royal Film Performance 1968: "Romeo and Juliet" by Franco Zeffirelli. London (1968); Sammy LaBella: The Real Skip E. Lowe (2025); Save Me (1994); Seven Days of Grace (2006); Shame, Shame, Shame (1999); Social Suicide (2015); Star Wars: Force Commander (2000); Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998); Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011); Superman: The Animated Series (1999); Take a Sapphire (1966); Tax Shelter Terrors (2017); That Was the Week We Watched (2004); The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004); The 12 Days of 'Black Christmas' (2006); The 21st Annual Genesis Awards (2007); The Actor's Journey (2011); The Actor's Journey for Kids (2011); The Bastard (1978); The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965); The Cat and the Canary (1978); The Corsican Brothers (1985); The Donald O'Connor Show (1968); The Gardener (1998); The Girl on the Balcony: The Life and Work of Actress Olivia Hussey (2025); The Great Christmas Movies (1998); The Jeweller's Shop (1988); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Last Days of Pompeii (1984); The Lord Protector (1996); The Man with Bogart's Face (1980); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Pirate (1978); The Psycho Legacy (2010); The Summertime Killer (1972); The Teen-Age Lovers of Verona (1968); The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1973); Three Priests (2008); Today (1984); Tortilla Heaven (2007); Turkey Shoot (1982); Undeclared War (1990); US Against the World (1977); Virus (1980); Welcome to the Basement (2015–2016); Yesterday and Today (1973).

Born on this day – William Holden:


William Holden


Actor

April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981

Credits:

Adventures at the Jade Sea (1969); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Apartment for Peggy (1948); Arizona (1940); Ashanti (1979); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend (1978); Blaze of Noon (1947); Boots Malone (1952); Born Yesterday (1950); Breezy (1973); Casino Royale (1967); Ciné regards (1979); Damien: Omen II (1978); Dear Ruth (1947); Dear Wife (1949); Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953); Donahue (1976); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Escape to Athena (1979); Et par ord om Danmark (1960); Executive Suite (1954); Father Is a Bachelor (1950); Fedora (1978); Force of Arms (1951); Forever Female (1953); Golden Boy (1939); Good Morning America (1977–1981); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Today (1955); I Love Lucy (1955); I Wanted Wings (1941); Invisible Stripes (1939); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Million Dollar Legs (1939); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); Mysteries of the Sea (1980); Network (1976); Once Upon a Time.... is Now Grace Kelly (1977); Open Season (1974); Our Town (1940); Paris When It Sizzles (1964); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1955); Picnic (1955); Prison Farm (1938); Producers' Showcase (1955); Rachel and the Stranger (1948); Reconnaissance Pilot (1943); Report on Hong Kong (1961); S.O.B. (1981); Sabrina (1954); Salute to Show Business (1957); Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954); Satan Never Sleeps (1962); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952); Sheilah Graham in Hollywood (1955); Shooting Stars (1961); Stalag 17 (1953); Streets of Laredo (1949); Submarine Command (1951); Sunset Blvd. (1950); Texas (1941); World's Heavyweight Championship Fight: Floyd Patterson Heavyweight Champion of the World versus Ingemar Johansson Heavyweight Champion of Europe (1959); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 7th Dawn (1964); The American Movie Awards (1980); The Annual National Sports Awards (1974); The Blue Knight (1973); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); The Christmas Tree (1969); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954–1955); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); The Country Girl (1954); The Dark Past (1948); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Dean Martin Show (1968–1973); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1972); The Earthling (1980); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Fleet's In (1942); The Horse Soldiers (1959); The Jack Benny Program (1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Key (1958); The Lion (1962); The Man from Colorado (1948); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1977); The Moon Is Blue (1953); The Moviemakers (1971); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Remarkable Andrew (1942); The Revengers (1972); The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1981); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Turning Point (1952); The Wild Bunch (1969); The World of Suzie Wong (1960); Those Were the Days! (1940); Toward the Unknown (1956); 21 Hours at Munich (1976); Union Station (1950); Variety Girl (1947); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 (1954); What's My Line? (1956); When Time Ran Out... (1980); Wild Rovers (1971); Wild Rovers (1971); Wings Up (1943); You Can Change the World (1950); Young and Willing (1943).