For nostalgia Tuesday, I'm going back 15 years to 7October2020.  Why?  Mostly because I woke up this morning and watched Debby Boone singing   You Light Up My Life ,   which ranked   #92 in my Top 100 list.   More specifically, because on the screen was something about her mother-in-law Rosemary Clooney.  I did not not know they were related.  That photo to the left is of Debby with her husband Gabriel Ferrrer and Rosemary. About 7October2010, from  Wikipedia : A lot of deaths in the Middle East. Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize in Literature. A lost Vivaldi flute concerto,  Il Gran Mogol , is  found in Edinburgh.    The other three pieces of the quartet remain lost. Written in the late 1720s or early 1730s. How did it get to Scotland? Listen to  Il Gran Mogol . I love Baroque music, a genre created between 1600 and 1750 in Europe.  Prominent composers include Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, ...

Well,  Time  magazine was right.   The Trump-Putin summit fizzled, and ended earlier than expected .  Worse,  Putin won .  Their next session will be in Moscow.  When?  And, in case you were wondering, Putin is 5'7" and Trump 6'3". Way back in 2014,  Guinness World Records deemed the Got Talent franchise the most successful reality TV format worldwide.   At that time, there 58 countries showing their own version of the program.  The whole concept began with  Britain's Got Talent,  created by Simon Cowell.  However, disputes delayed their release, and the first to air was  America's Got Talent  in 2006.  They both run during the summer. The latest ranking  (13August2025) , however, shows the following: #    1  Idol franchise  3.2 billion, 23 years,  2002 to 2025, but did not air in 2017. #    2  Got Talent franchise  500 million in 190 markets, 20 ye...

Before Jackie Evancho, there was Charlotte Church, a Welsh singer who was born in 1986 and had a musical breakthrough at the age of 11 singing  Pie Jesu  over the telephone on a television show.  ( Watch her singing this song shortly thereafter .)  Two years later in 1999 she sang at  Rupert Murdoch 's third wedding, to Wendi Deng, when he was 68 and she 30.  I digress here, for the  following is kind of interesting. They were married for 14 years. His fourth was model Jerry hall when he was 85 and she 59.  Stayed together for six years. In 2023, at the age of 92, he got engaged to Ann Lesley Smith who was 56, but two weeks later called it off because of her infatuation to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.  Three weeks later, he fired Carlson. His fifth marriage occurred on June 2024, to retired Russian molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, whose daughter Dasha is the ex-wife of Roman Abramovich.  Who is he?  Worth  $14.5 billion, wit...