Buddy Guy turns 90 today.
His mother's stroke pulled him from school as a teenager. When he left Louisiana in '57, he promised her he'd make it big and come back in a polka-dot Cadillac. She died before she ever saw his success.
Years later, he had Fender build him a polka-dot guitar to carry her memory everywhere he plays.
Still touring at 90. Damn right, he's still got the blues.
Pulp Fiction told its story out of order in 1994 and trusted a Friday night crowd to keep the pieces straight. It worked so well that scrambling the timeline stopped being an art house move and turned into a default setting.
"Eleven hundred men went into the water..."
81 years ago today, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine. This real life event would form Quint’s backstory in #JAWS, giving us one of the most moving monologues in cinema history.