You Learn Something New Every Day (cont.)

[Sneakeater]

Apparently Naomi Wolf and Naomi Klein are two different people.

[Sneakeater]

One of Schoenberg's music students at UCLA was Jackie Robinson.  (Schoenberg would excuse him from class for baseball practice.)

[Sneakeater]

Leslie Nielsen was inspired to go into acting by the success of his uncle, Jean Herscholt.

[bloviatrix]

How did I not know that Patrick Mahomes' dad pitched for the Mets and played in the '00 World Series before yesterday?

Edited October 3, 2023 by bloviatrix

[Wilfrid]

Any New Yorkers here know Sylvan Terrace? I had never heard of it. Stumbled across it heading for the Morris-Jumel mansion; 12 blocks from me so I was overdue to visit.

The Terrace, with its row houses, was one of several streets providing accommodation for people working at the mansion and the estate. Now practically a gated community with the (small) wood frame houses selling for a fortune.

But visually striking: looks imported from another city.

 

[StephanieL]

Yes.  I visited there many years ago.

[small h]

2 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Any New Yorkers here know Sylvan Terrace?

Only because I used to work for the Landmarks Preservation Foundation. I think I wrote their plaque.

[Wilfrid]

I have the landmarks of New York book and am looking it up.

I am sure the residents don’t want tourists gawking at it.

[Wilfrid]

It has certainly kept a low profile. No entry in my 1300 page [i]Encyclopedia of New York City[/i]. It goes straight from Swope to Sylvia’s.

In the landmarks book it’s listed as a historic district; map, no photo.

I am feeling less bad about my ignorance.

[AaronS]

I saw it in a listicle of every similar street in NYC that had some neat stuff in brooklyn I was unaware of. must have been on brownstoner.

Edited October 29, 2023 by AaronS

[Sneakeater]

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie

[Sneakeater]

I'm still Jewish, if anyone is wondering.

[Sneakeater]

I'd like to know more about Leonard Cohen, though.

[Wilfrid]

Yes, I saw that.

And I have a really embarrassing one. For more than 30 years I have believed that Neneh Cherry was Don Cherry's daughter. Nope. She is African/Swedish, that part was correct, but Don Cherry was her stepfather.

[Sneakeater]

It's very brave of you to admit that.

[Sneakeater]

It's almost as shocking that she isn't Canadian.

[Sneakeater]

But here:  I'll admit this.

There was a TV show -- one of those thieves-work-for-the-government premises exemplified by Modesty Blaise -- that was on for a minute or two a few decades ago called South Beach.

I knew that the protagonist was played by the daughter of Jerry Butler of the Loving Spoonful.

But it never occurred to me for a second that the guy who played her sidekick was the son of Don Cherry.

(Of course I knew that their handler was played by a Famous Groupie.)

Edited October 30, 2023 by Sneakeater

[Wilfrid]

Oh Eagle-Eye. Yes.

[Sneakeater]

Yeah it was only later when he started releasing music that it became known he was Don Cherry's son.

But in that show he was just some actor pretending to be Jamaican (little did I realize he was actually Swedish).

Edited October 30, 2023 by Sneakeater

[Sneakeater]

I'll bet a lot of people don't know Joel Kinnaman is Swedish.

[Sneakeater]

I just realized that Jane Wyatt and Jane Wyman are two different people.

If either of them is still alive, maybe they could write a book.

[hollywood10]

Sounds like the book will be ghost written.

[Sneakeater]

The Denver Omelet is named after Denver City, Utah -- not Denver, Colorado.

[Wilfrid]

There's such a thing as the Denver omelet.

[Sneakeater]

It's not just ducks:    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/science/bats-sex-cloacal-kiss.html