BIAW campaign exploits old state divisions
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 14, 2008
WITH HIS PROPENSITY for shooting from the lip, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona once opined that the United States would be better off were the Eastern Seaboard cut off and floated out to sea.
In 1964, with Goldwater the Republican presidential nominee, Democrats gleefully aired a TV shot showing a saw sticking up through a map [...]
Meeting a legend
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on May 17, 2008
Growing up as a wrestling fan, I always relish the chance to interview the stars that graced my television set as a kid. The more I began to learn about the business, the more I began a fascination with the history of the industry. This is why I always value the chance to interview the [...]
Bowing out of curtain raiser Cotchin takes centre stage
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 17, 2008
Trent Cotchin was on the MCG, wearing a Coburg jumper, warming up and running through his plans for the VFL match.
About a month ago, as the teenager played his first football for the year after a summer full of injury, he was told to aim for Richmond’s round-nine clash with Essendon as a possible AFL [...]
Behind the Curtain: City museum hosts one-woman show
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 7, 2008
The last time a museum in Attleboro hosted theater it was the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum, which rented a wing to Attleboro Community Theatre to stage plays along Union Street for a decade or more.
ACT eventually moved out and, after a three-year stay at a Firearms School in North Attleboro, settled into a splendid small [...]
The final curtain
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on May 3, 2008
FRANK Lloyd Wright was an arrogant man and he cultivated what you might consider a shortcoming into what he saw as a virtue. It is far nobler, to paraphrase Wright, to be honestly arrogant than to be dishonestly self-effacing.
And he had the genius to carry it off in style, even dressing the part, capes and [...]
Swap meet puts kids on the right train collecting track
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 17, 2008
To celebrate the birthday, his father,Kitchen Curtain Rick Redman drove the 55 miles from Peru to Lafayette for a model railroad swap meet at First Church of the Nazarene.
“I used to collect trains when I was his age,” Redman said. “I kind of got out of it as I got older. But now that I’ve [...]
Woman Learned Lessons In 1947 Disaster
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 17, 2008
Curt Hennig I am writing about my survival of the 1947 Texas City Disaster so that others who read it could learn from my experience.
Reading the newspaper about a man who had survived Japan’s atomic blast helped me survive the Texas City Disaster.
He said when he saw the atomic “mushroom shape†in the distance, knowing [...]
Big Daddy V’s Health Stars At Hof Espn Classics
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on April 11, 2008
Baseball legend Wade Boggs and former WWF wrestler Brian Blair were at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony and Wrestlemania XXIV. Boggs has a number of friends in the industry and was close with both Gordon Solie and Curt Hennig Curtain Rods. Boggs inducted Hennig into WWE’s Hall of Fame.
Unconfirmed reports say that WWE is [...]
Curt’s Replays: Looking Back At Local Tennis In 83
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 11, 2008
Twenty-five years ago, the Capital High boys tennis team opened the 1983 season with a sweep of Great Falls’ netters in the Electric City, beating C.M. Russell 6-0 and Great Falls High 5-1. The Bruins got a pair of wins from Rod Morrison, Mike D’Aoust and Tom LaFond in singles, and the doubles teams of [...]
Dramas Get Attention And Give Musicals A Run For Their Money
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 1, 2008
For at least 25 years, the premier commercial theater district in the country has been dominated by musicals. Such serious dramatists as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams were once represented on Broadway marquees, but the straight play was pushed to the margins during the final third of the last century.
As the audience base shifted from [...]