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On This Day: November 19

Keith Chaffee, Librarian, Collection Development,
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Welcome to ON THIS DAY! Each day, we'll look at a few moments from history and popular culture. We'll show you where you can rediscover classic movies and music, or read more about great moments in history. We'll point you to e-books, downloadable and streamable music and film, and e-audio; and of course, we haven't forgotten about physical books or DVDs.

National Review On this day in 1955, the first issue of National Review was published. The magazine was founded by William F. Buckley, Jr., as a home for conservative social and political thought; Buckley defined National Review as a magazine that "stands athwart history, yelling Stop." The magazine has been a home for many important conservative writers and thinkers, including L. Brent Bozell, George Will, Robert Costa, Ann Coulter, and Charles Krauthammer. Current and back issues of National Review are available at OverDrive.
Tom Sawyer (1973 film) On this day in 1962, Jodie Foster was born. Foster began acting by five, and had her first starring role in a film at age ten. She began taking more serious roles at a relatively young age, in an attempt to make a more successful transition to an adult career than most child actors; she appeared in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver at age 12 (and served as translator for the French press when the film appeared at the Cannes Film Festival). Among her early films is the 1973 musical adaptation of Tom Sawyer, in which Foster plays Becky Thatcher; it's available for streaming at Hoopla.
2x2: Best of Milli Vanilli And on this day in 1990, Milli Vanilli was stripped of its Best New Artist Grammy Award after it was revealed that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, who had been credited as the group's vocalists, had not actually done the singing on the group's records. The actual singer was a studio musician named Charles Shaw. More than two dozen lawsuits would be filed against the group and its record company; a settlement eventually gave more than 10 million people the right to collect a refund. You can hear Shaw's work on Best of Milli Vanilli, available for streaming at Hoopla.

 


 

 

 

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