Monthly Archives: July 2011

‘Spirited Away’ opens in Japan

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Spirited Away Trailer

(Friday, July 20, 2001)Spirited Away, a Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli, opened today in Japan. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who is in the process of moving to a new neighborhood.

McCartney performs ‘secret’ gig

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Paul McCartney – Secret Gig 1991 interview

(Friday, July 19, 1991) —  Paul McCartney performs at Cliffs Pavilion in Westcliff-on-Sea, England as part of his Unplugged 1991 Summer Tour, a European impromptu tour of six “secret” gigs scheduled to promote the release of the “Unplugged” live album.

Lennon, Ono attend book signing


(note: the video is intermixed with film from Friday, July 16, 1971, at another book signing. Lennon wore a solid dark coat on July 15, and a dark coat featuring small colored shapes on July 16)

(Thursday, July 15, 1971) — John Lennon and Yoko Ono attended a book-signing promotional appearance today at the London department store, Selfridges, for the re-publication of Yoko’s book, “Grapefruit.” It is shown over the song It’s So Hard in the documentary “Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine Album.”

Plan to firebomb Brookings called off


Watergate. Part 2 of 30

(Sunday, July 11, 1971) — White House Counsel John Dean flew to San Clemente, California, today to tell Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman that a plan to firebomb the Brookings Institution, which was conducting a study of American involvement in Vietnam thought to be another “Pentagon Papers” covering the Nixon years, should be abandoned.  Ehrlichman called the operation off.