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“Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?” is a lyric written by Simon and Garfunkel for the movie The Graduate. It is much discussed as to what those lyrics mean. In our confused time of disheveled ...
The romance, marriage and divorce of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio captivated fans in the United States and around the world.
I wonder if the line “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” from the famous Simon and Garfunkel song, “Mrs. Robinson,” will have any meaning for future generations. Not because they won’t ...
Yankees great Joe DiMaggio was a creature of habit. He liked to dine at his usual haunts — typically red-sauce Italian joints such as Bamonte’s in Williamsburg and Campagna on East 21st Street ...
In 1968 his name figured in a SECOND song, as a brief cryptic lyric in Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson." As DiMaggio told "Sunday Morning"'s Robert Lipsyte in 1985: "I still don't know what ...
But 31 years later, with Joe DiMaggio gravely ill in a Florida hospital, there is still another truth. “I still don’t know exactly why or how I wrote that line,” says Simon.
March 31, 2006— -- Joltin' Joe DiMaggio was one of the all-time baseball greats, and his celebrity transcended sports; he became a pop culture icon, who was immortalized in the Simon and ...
At that point in his career, DiMaggio was nearly immortalized as a baseball star, husband of Marilyn Monroe, Mr. Coffee and even as a line in Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson.” ...
A timeline of Joe DiMaggio's life.1900 February: Baseball’s American League is founded. 1914 August: Triggered by the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, European nations stumble ...
GUEST: RICHARD BEN CRAMER *Author Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life (Simon & Schuster 2000) and What it Takes: The Way to the White House (Vintage Books, 1993) Prize-winning author Richard Ben Cramer ...
In the 1960s, Simon & Garfunkel highlighted him in their hit song “Mrs. Robinson”: “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.” ...