Post by Frank Beacham

Dec. 3: Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic, is 91 years old today; Violinist Joe Deninzon is 47 years old; Mickey Thomas, rock and blues singer and one of the lead vocalists of Jefferson Starship and Starship, is 71 years old; Ozzy Osbourne is 73 years old; country singer Ferlin Husky was born 96 years ago; and Joseph Conrad, the Polish-British writer, was born 164 years ago today. Also, on this day in 1979 — 42 years ago — festival seating for rock concerts at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum led to one of the deadliest tragedies in concert history; and 74 years ago tonight, Marlon Brando's famous cry of "STELLA!" boomed across a Broadway stage during the first-ever performance of A Streetcar Named Desire. www.beachamjournal.com