Photograph of Robin Williams sitting on a couch with a beer can and a wet face.

Mork & Mindy (1978-1982), a TV sitcom series starring Robin Williams, was a spin-off of the long-running sitcom Happy Days.  Williams' quirky character, Mork, is an extra-terrestrial deported from his home planet Ork because humor is not permitted there. Once on Earth, Mork’s assignment is to study human behavior and he does so with abandon and reflection.  WIlliams, known for his unique brand of humor, played Mork opposite Pam Dawber as Mindy, his human friend and roommate (whose father owned a music store). Mork & Mindy is credited with being the vehicle that made Williams a household name in the United States.  But despite initial acclaim, the series’ ratings steadily declined due to time-slot, plot & cast changes until its cancelation just four years later.

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Mork & Mindy (1978-1982), a TV sitcom series starring Robin Williams, was a spin-off of the long-running sitcom Happy Days.  Williams' quirky character, Mork, is an extra-terrestrial deported from his home planet Ork because humor is not permitted there. Once on Earth, Mork’s assignment is to study human behavior and he does so with abandon and reflection.  WIlliams, known for his unique brand of humor, played Mork opposite Pam Dawber as Mindy, his human friend and roommate (whose father owned a music store). Mork & Mindy is credited with being the vehicle that made Williams a household name in the United States.  But despite initial acclaim, the series’ ratings steadily declined due to time-slot, plot & cast changes until its cancelation just four years later.

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The Little Outcast was a play performed by members of E.J. Carpenter's touring theater company. The play ran from 1903 to 1904 and featured May Stockton playing the part of Bob, the newsboy. According to one report in The Sunday Oregonian, Stockton was "a topliner" and "caused a good deal of the applause by her ubiquity and resourcefulness."

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In 1980, Mad Magazine and Warner Brothers made a movie together, but neither side could agree on the script. By the time it was ready to release, Bill Gaines, publisher of Mad offered Warner Bros. $30,000 to not have this movie associated with Mad Magazine. The magazine spoofed the movie in "MAD Magazine Resents Throw Up the Academy" and Gaines wrote apologies to everyone who wrote in to complain. Directed by Robert Downey Sr., of Putney Swope fame, it was bound to at least be a little bit of a cult classic.

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Larry Semon was a famous silent movie actor, director, and producer. He was known for his silent movie version of the Wizard of Oz in 1925 and working with Laurel and Hardy. Semon was also a vaudeville actor, coming from a family of vaudevillian actors, his father was Zera the Great. When directing his films, no gag was too big. He was often over budget and even had to file for bankruptcy before his early death at age 39. 

Here's footage from his 1922 film, The Sawmill. He insisted on building permanent log cabins for this film.

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John Wayne (real name Marion Mitchell Morrison) was an American film actor, director and producer who epitomized "rugged masculinity" and became an enduring American icon, following his breakout role in the 1939 Western film Stagecoach.

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The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon was an annual televised fundraising event for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) that usually lasted six hours on Labor Day weekend. Actor and comedian Jerry Lewis hosted the broadcast from its 1966 inception until 2010. In 1950s, Jerry Lewis hosted a Thanksgiving Party for MDA, which raised funds for the organization's New York City area operations. The success of the event had thus spun off the Labor Day Telethon.  

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Promotional item created to coincide with the 1982 release of the popular film "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial". This was given out at a secret pre-view of the movie before it was released. The film was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and tells the story of a young boy who befriends an alien stranded on earth and helps him return home. E.T. was the highest-grossing film of 1982, and remains among the highest-grossing films of all time.

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In 1994, talk radio DJ Howard Stern won the Libertarian Party nomination for the New York state governor's race. When he declined to release his financial information as required by law, he left the running and backed Republican candidate George Pataki, who won the election. Pataki later signed into law "The Howard Stern Bill" which enacted several of the items on Stern's platform, including one that limited construction on state roads in New York City and Long Island to night hours.

Black and white photograph on green background of actor William Boyd as the film character Hopalong Cassidy. Black text along button portion of button. 

Hopalong Cassidy was a cowboy hero character created by Clarence E. Mulford in 1904. The character was featured in film, television, novels, radio, comic books, and even a short-lived 1950s theme park in Los Angeles. Hopalong traveled with his horse, Topper, and two companions.