Francis Ford Coppola directing, Mario Puzo writing the script and Robert Evans as a producer, how can a film with this team fail? This is the same team behind the Godfather 1 and 2, two of the best movies of all time. The Cotton Club was going to be the next big thing for them, right? […]
Month: November 2021
3 year anniversary
This weekend marks the three-year anniversary of Mistakes were Made. This site started as an idea, to use some of my historical knowledge and write under appreciated or unknown tales from history. I had no expectations and didn’t know what I was doing. Article ideas were all over the place, as I was constantly testing […]
An ode to Paul Robeson
From the 1920s to the 1940s, Paul Robeson made himself into a world renowned actor and singer. He was one of the primary stars of the Harlem Renaissance era. Around the mid-1940s, Robeson started getting involved in political activism. He started believing trade unionism was crucial to civil rights. Robeson became an outspoken advocate for […]
In Living Color
Most of us have heard the phrase, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it’s black.” Henry Ford, the founder of Ford motor company and also a pioneer of scale production, uttered that phrase. The car in question was the model T, the car that kicked off […]
