DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

In his recent autobiography, Ernest Borgnine reveals that his friend George Lindsay, Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show", turned down the part of "Mr. Spock" on TV's  "Star Trek" . Lindsay, by the way, started out as a science teacher. James Whale said his   Frankenstein  (1931 star, Boris Karloff. "His face fascinated me. I made drawings of his head, adding sharp bony ridges where I imagined the skull might have joined". The U.S. Air Force refused to help in the filming of Howard Hawks'  The Thing   (1951), because the theme of the movie was counter to the Air Force's claim that flying saucers don't exist. In fact, one crew member (Dewey Martin) reads a quote from Air Force regulations denying flying saucers to the others as they are flying near the UFO crash site. In George Pal's  War of the Worlds  (1953), the unique Flying Wing aircraft that drops the atom bomb on the advancing Marti

    Lag BaOmer (Hebrew: ל"ג בעומר‎ ), also known as  Lag LaOmer  amongst Sephardi Jews, is a Jewish holiday celebrated on the thirty-third day of the  Counting of the Omer,  which occurs on the 18th day of Iyar.     Lag BaOmer is Hebrew for  "33rd [day] in the Omer ". The Hebrew letter ל (lamed) or  "L"  represents " 30"  and ג (gimmel) or  "G"  represents  "3".  A vowel sound is conventionally added for pronunciation purposes.     Some Jews call this holiday Lag LaOmer, which means "33rd [day] of the Omer", as opposed to Lag BaOmer,  "33rd [day] in the Omer."  Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson writes in his Likkutei Sichos that the reason why the day should be called Lag BaOmer and not Lag LaOmer is because the Hebrew words Lag BaOmer (ל"ג בעמר), spelled without the  "vav",  have the same gematria as Moshe (משה), and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai was mystically a spark of the soul of Moses.