Happy Birthday...

[scotrace]

Ever Read about...

Barbara Stanwyck? More issues than a medium-sized American community.

 

[Lena_Horne]

Wow, I can't believe I missed this thread. Happy Belated Birthday dear Sir!

*reads the scintillating stuff above* Oh my.

L_H

 

[Lena_Horne]

As bizzare as it seems, actually happened. Cannon spilled beans galore during and after her divorce from Grant. Riveting stuff.

Call me shameless but now I want to read whatever it is you read darling. Where did this lovely information come from--and strangely enough it doesn't even revolt me. Maybe it's because it's Mr. Grant and I seem to instantly forgive him his tresspasses every time.

L_H

 

[GHT]

Happy birthday Marvin Lee Aday. 71, amazing. And happy 20th birthday Google.
Here's the most memorable of Marvin's classic songs:

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ You just pulled off a twelve-and-a-half-year bump - that's got to be close to a record?

 

[GHT]

⇧ You just pulled off a twelve-and-a-half-year bump - that's got to be close to a record?

It was easy, I googled Fedora Lounge, birthdays. Reason being, it's Margarita's 100th birthday in three weeks time, can't miss that.

 

[GHT]

Happy birthday to Brigitte Bardot, {84} French actress, model, animal activist and sex kitten (And God Created Women), born in Paris, France.

Happy birthday also, to the late Benjamin Earl King, who would have been eighty.

 

[GHT]

Happy birthday to the late Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg, who would have been 87.
1931 Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita) and Miss Sweden 1950, born in Malmö, Sweden.

And still with us, The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis, (83) American Rock & Roll singer (Whole Lotta Shakin,' Great Balls of Fire,), born in Ferriday, Louisiana

 

[GHT]

Born on this day in 1917, Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer and band leader, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1987)

And on this day 14 years later, in 1931 Angeline "Angie" Dickinson [Brown], American actress, born in Kulm, North Dakota.

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ For my dad, born in '24 - as was true of many men of that generation - Angie Dickinson was an "it" girl. Growing up in the early '70s, she seemed more my dad's generation (like a woman with an old hairdo who smoked too many cigarettes) than mine which - at least for my middle-school classmates and me - was all about Bo Derek and Charlie's Angels.

The two follow ups to that are, one, I met my girlfriend in the late '90s and we quickly discovered that her dad, born in '29, like mine, saw Dickinson as an "it" girl and, two, at my advanced age of 54 and now having seen Ms. Dickinson in several of her old movies on TCM, I do kinda get it in that she was a very pretty woman with a ease with the camera, but whatever magic dust she sprinkled on that particular generation of men was an "of the moment" thing.

 

[GHT]

British Prime Minister, Theresa May is 62 today.
On this day in 1935 Julie Andrews, British actress and singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins), was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

Today would have been the 88th birthday of Richard Harris, Irish actor (Man Called Horse) and singer (MacArthur Park), born in Limerick, Ireland 1930-2002.

 

[GHT]

Today is the birthday of, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi. Indian spiritual leader, born in Porbandar, Kathiawar Agency, India 1869-1948
Born today in 1890, one Julius Marx, better known as Groucho. An American comedian and arguably the best known of the Marx Brothers, born in NYC, New York, he died in 1977.

Also on this day in 1951 Gordon Sumner, British actor, songwriter and lead singer of the band: "The Police," born in Wallsend, Northumberland, England. Best known by his stage name: Sting.

 

[GHT]

Sir Michael Murray Hordern, CBE was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly 60 years. He is best known for his Shakespearean roles, especially that of King Lear, which he played to much acclaim on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon in and London.
Hordern was a prolific actor, never out of work, he appeared in over 100 television shows and movies.

James Herriot, English novelist: James Herriot was a pseudonym for real life veterinary surgeon James Wight whose semi-autobiographical novels "Every Living Thing" and "All Creatures Great and Small" set in the Yorkshire Dales of England.
Herriot's works were made into a film and later a long-running TV series that ran for 7 series.

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, or Gore Vidal, was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing. Vidal was born to a political family; his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as United States senator from Oklahoma.

 

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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, or Gore Vidal, was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing. Vidal was born to a political family; his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as United States senator from Oklahoma.
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Not a fan of his political views, but enjoyed his novel "Lincoln" many years ago and still get a kick out of seeing his name pop up now and then on TCM or an old TV show in the screenwriting credits.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Those who think that mutual evisceration in the guise of debate is a new thing have never watched the Vidal vs. Buckley confrontations of the late sixties.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Those who think that mutual evisceration in the guise of debate is a new thing have never watched the Vidal vs. Buckley confrontations of the late sixties.

You mean "crypto- Nazi" vs. "I'll sock you in your godd**ned face and you'll stay plastered!" at the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968?

And that was one of the saner moments of that particular week.


Buckley could be more than a little pompous, but that was one moment when he definitely did not show his cooler emotional side.

 

[3fingers]

James Herriot, English novelist: James Herriot was a pseudonym for real life veterinary surgeon James Wight whose semi-autobiographical novels "Every Living Thing" and "All Creatures Great and Small" set in the Yorkshire Dales of England.
Herriot's works were made into a film and later a long-running TV series that ran for 7 series.

I was a great fan of both the books and the television show. It was a sad end after he passed and his lifelong partner vet Dr. Sinclair became so depressed he took his own life.

 

[GHT]

Yesterday I forgot Chubby Checker, but as I have issues with Chubby, no apologies. Chubby did a John Lennon, when asked about popular music, Lennon arrogantly opined that before Elvis Presley there was nothing. Really?
Chubby did much the same when he said that before The Twist, the kids had nothing. So no Lindy, Jitterbug, Rock & Roll or Jive, just nothing.

Take your hands off me you stinking ape: Charlton Heston, actor (10 Commandments, Ben-Hur, Planet of Apes) 1923-2008.

Jacqueline Jill Collins OBE was an English romance novelist. She moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s and spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times bestsellers list. Her books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages: 4 October 1937, Hampstead, London: 19 September 2015, Beverly Hills, California, USA.

Susan Abigail Tomalin, better known as Susan Sarandon, is an American actress and activist. She has received an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for six Prime time Emmy Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards. Born: 4 October 1946 (age 72 years), Jackson Heights, New York City, New York.

 

[GHT]

Simon Cowell, so called Mr Nasty, of The X Factor, shares his birthday today with: Vladimir Putin & Heinrich Himmler. (Serves him right.)

 

[GHT]

James Frank Duryea October 8, 1869 – February 15, 1967 and his brother Charles 1861–1938, invented the first gasoline-powered automobile in America. ... The brothers were born in Illinois.

1949 Susan Alexandra, American actress, born in Manhattan, New York. You might know her better as Sigourney Weaver.