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Good 53º morning.

 

 

Yesterday we started at 48º. Clear blue skies that stayed all day and we topped at 95º.

 

 

Picture of the Day...OMG😯 Starbucks Coffee!

 

 

Interesting about actor Rip Taylor....

 

 

Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor Jr. (January 13, 1931 – October 6, 2019) was an American actor and comedian, known for his exuberance and flamboyant personality, including his wild moustache, toupee, and his habit of showering himself (and others) with confetti. The Hollywood Reporter called him "a television and nightclub mainstay for more than six decades" who made thousands of nightclub and television appearances.

Early life

Charles Elmer Taylor Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 1931, the son of Elizabeth Sue Evans (1911–2000), a waitress and former government clerk, and Charles Elmer Taylor (died 1933), a musician. His father died when he was two years old. As described in his 2010 one-man show It Ain't All Confetti, Taylor had a tough childhood, which included being molested while in foster care and having to deal with bullies in school. As a teenager he attended Capitol Page School. Taylor worked as a congressional page before serving in the Korean War; he was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Although assigned to the Corps, he was sent to Special Services, the entertainment wing of the military, where he performed for the troops in Tokyo and Korea.

Career

Early career

Taylor's career in show business began when he joined the U.S. Army, where he started performing stand-up in clubs and restaurants abroad while also performing for the troops. After his military service, and back in the U.S., he focused on a nightclub career. His mainstay material was "pantomiming records"; his favorites were Yiddish folk songs and Spike Jones tunes. He said that ended one day when the record player broke, "I haven't shut up since." In the mid-1950s he worked the strip clubs all along the Eastern coast of the U.S. Although much of his material included jokes stolen from acts he saw in USO shows, his first signature piece would be to pretend to cry while begging the audience for laughs. He found he could get a bigger response that way. His bookings started to get more upscale and he played all over Miami Beach, Florida, which had become a winter destination for the wealthy. Taylor was also a mainstay in the summer playground of the wealthy in the Catskills Mountains. A booking agent from The Ed Sullivan Show attended his show one night. Taylor would spend a week's salary on champagne to get the audience boisterous. He first appeared on the show in 1961 and made about twenty appearances. Sullivan would forget his name, saying "Get me the crying comedian."

Television and film

In addition to the Ed Sullivan Show, Taylor appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show in several guest appearances during the 1963–1964 season as "the crying comedian". Taylor's signature confetti tossing gag came from an appearance in the 1960s The Merv Griffin Show where he was bombing as a stand-up comedian. "I did props and I was 'The Prop comedian.' I was dying like hell on Merv Griffin's show. The jokes were dumb, and I tore the five by eight cards, threw them up in the air and it became confetti," he recalled. "I knocked over his desk, walked up the aisle, went to Sardi's and said, 'Well, that's the end of my television career.' I went home that night. Their switchboard had lit up. They said, 'Get the guy that went crazy!'"

 

Taylor became somewhat of a fixture in Las Vegas. He was the opener for Eleanor Powell's dance-focused revue, and would go on to warm up audiences for headliners Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Ann-Margret, Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Judy Garland and The Kingston Trio. In the 1970s he won Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year three times.

He appeared in two 1968 episodes of The Monkees as well as having a cameo in their 1969 special 33+1⁄3 Revolutions per Monkee. He continued to work as a voice performer in the 1970s cartoon series Here Comes the Grump, as the title character, and in the second edition of The Addams Family cartoon series in 1992, as the voice of Uncle Fester.

 

Throughout the 1970s, Taylor was a frequent celebrity guest panelist on television game shows such as Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth, and The Gong Show, and substituted for Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game. He became a regular on Sid and Marty Krofft's Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, playing Sheldon, a sea-genie who lived in a conch shell. In addition, Taylor was also a regular on The Brady Bunch Hour, playing the role of neighbor/performer Jack Merrill. He also hosted a short-lived send-up of beauty pageants titled The $1.98 Beauty Show, created by Chuck Barris, producer/host of The Gong Show, in 1978. Taylor appeared as a celebrity on the 1990 version of Match Game. In 1979, he was the voice of C.J. from the Hanna-Barbera television movie Scooby Goes Hollywood. Taylor's other appearances also include The Kids in the Hall, where he was referred to as Uncle Rip by Buddy Cole, the show's most flamboyantly gay character. He also appeared as himself in the movie Wayne's World 2, one of the special guests invited to "WayneStock" after being visited in a dream by Jim Morrison. Taylor made "dozens of mayhem-filled appearances" on both The Tonight Show and The Mike Douglas Show.

Personal life and death

In 2005, Taylor appeared as the grand marshal of the Washington, D.C., Capital Pride parade. When Taylor had been referred to as "openly gay" in a 2009 interview for "Ask the Flying Monkey", Brent Hartinger recalled receiving an email from Taylor stating, "You don't know me to surmise I am openly gay. I don't know you're not an open heroin user. You see how that works? Think before you write." Taylor was married for a number of years to Las Vegas showgirl Rusty Rowe, whom he divorced in the early 1960s.

 

Taylor was a close friend of entertainer Liberace. Taylor cut the ribbon at the Las Vegas estate auction of Liberace's belongings and personal effects in 1988.

 

According to his publicist, at the time of Taylor's death he was in a long-term relationship with Robert Fortney.

 

Taylor died on October 6, 2019, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, having been hospitalized for an epileptic seizure the week prior. His death certificate listed heart failure as a contributing cause. While Taylor often gave his birth year as 1934 or 1935, his death certificate and census records confirm he was born in 1931. His ashes were scattered at sea in Hawaii.

 

^{If you want to read more, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Taylor#}

 

 

 

From Mr. Food

 

SERVES

4

COOK TIME

15 Min

We've got two questions for you. Are you tired of dry baked chicken? And who doesn't love reaching into a bag of potato chips? Well, we've got a recipe that's the best of both worlds. Make our Barbecue Chip Chicken! Barbecue chips add an irresistible crunch and tangy flavor to juicy baked chicken breasts. Try this new chicken for dinner, tonight - it won't disappoint!

 

• 1/2 cup ranch salad dressing
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 (6-ounce) bag barbecue-flavored potato chips, crushed
• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (1 to 1-1/2 pounds)

 

1. Preheat oven to 400º. Coat a rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray.
2. In a shallow dish, combine dressing, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper; mix well. Place crushed potato chips in another shallow dish. Dip chicken into dressing mixture then into crushed potato chips, coating completely; place on baking sheet.
3. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.

 

***To make it easier to dip our Barbecue Chip Chicken in our favorite dipping sauces, we cut the chicken into long strips and turn them into chicken fingers. (By the way, we think this recipe pairs great with our homemade ranch dressing.)

 

 

 

Historically this date......

1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

 

 

1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.

 

1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

1980 – A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured.

 

 

2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.

 

 

2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.

 

And births this date include.....

1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)

 

 

 

 

1916 – Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)

 

Holy cow, 7 husbands!

 

1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Sands_(American_singer)

Sad, some people just don't age well!

 

 

1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille .... divorced. (d.2019)

 

 

1943 – Tuesday Weld, American actress

 

 

1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress

(Mrs. Ringo Starr)

 

 

 

 

1952 – Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), American actor (d.2023)

 

 

 

 

1969 – Cesar Millan, Dog trainer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All I know. Nuff said. Have a good Tuesday. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

On August 27th, National Just Because Day offers up an opportunity to do stuff…just because. So feel free to celebrate this day any way you choose.  Just because!

Every day we all do things that are expected or required of us. Sometimes we even do things because we have to do them; we don’t know why.  Well, on this occasion, that does not apply.  This day is a chance to do something without rhyme or reason.

• It could be that there is an outfit at the mall that you are admiring; buy it…just because.
• Maybe you want to use a vacation day just to go fishing; do it…just because.
• Perhaps you would like to pay the tab for the table next to you at your favorite restaurant; do it…just because.
• Possibly you want to sing really loud while you’re in your car, by yourself, with your windows rolled down; do it…just because.
• Surprise someone with flowers…just because!
  
• Make something up…just because!
  
• Or maybe, just maybe, do something just because Mom said so.  

NATIONAL JUST BECAUSE DAY HISTORY

In the late 1950s, Joseph J. Goodwin of Los Gatos, California, created Just Because Day. It began as a family holiday and grew into an annual celebration across the United States.