ON THIS DAY IN 2022:
On this day in 2003, the wonderful trio of Meryl Streep (pictured), Al Pacino and Emma Thompson pooled talents in the HBO TV adaptation of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning Angels in America, a play by Tony Kushner. It drew 4.2 million viewers, making it the year’s top cable movie, and went on to scoop 11 Emmy Awards, the most ever for a single broadcast.
Today sees recording star Tom Waits turn 73, while actor Nicholas Hoult turns 33 and actress Ellen Burstyn (an Oscar-winner for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) turns 90.
South Africa’s top-selling single during this week in 1972 was Mammy Blue by Charisma, which was not really a band, but a group of session musos under Graeme Beggs. Interestingly, the song spent 12 weeks at No 1 in South Africa, just falling short of the record set by the Johnny Nash classic, I Can See Clearly Now, which enjoyed 13 weeks at the top of the chart. Just saying…
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