Count on it being April somewhere like . . . Paris . . .

It’s Moon day and the heat hammer is pounding my Okie-land and a stuffed mailbox . . .

In1942, Walt Disney's animated film Bambi had its theatrical release on this day in the United States.

The new Globe Theatre opened on this day in 1997 England.

Today in 1989, Voyager 2 began a flyby of planet Neptune.

On this day in 1968 Soviet forces invaded Czechoslovakia crushing “the Prague Spring” because of the country’s experiments with a more liberal government. The event became the motif and background for Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being, and subsquent motion picture (1988) – a superb adaptation by Kundera and Phillip Kaufman, who directed, with lead actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin. Awards and nominations too numerous to list here.

It's Peter Weir's birthday today. The film director is among the leaders of Australian New Wave cinema and internationally recognized for Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli; and Academy Award nominee for Dead Poets Society, Master and Commander; and is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Academy.

It's also the 119th anniversary of “Count” Basie's birth. The band leader and composer was born on this day in 1904 Red Bank, New Jersey.

It’s always “April in Paris”