Vivian Vance, circa 1930, public domain July 26, 1909 - Vivian Vance: "When I Die, There Will Be People Who Send Ethel Mertz Flowers." Vivian Vance's most famous character, Ethel Mertz, was a less-than-prosperous landlady of an East 68th Street Manhattan brownstone owned … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Fate Sucks. I Swear.” – Gus Van Sant, spoken by Matt Dillon as Bob in “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989)
Original Japanese Poster In early spring 1989, if I had been somewhat clairvoyant while on the set of the film Drugstore Cowboy, I would have realized that in the 21st century I would be living in Portland, Oregon, in fact, residing in a house just a mile from where we were … [Read more...]
#Breaking: Gay Icons Bette Midler and Joni Mitchell to Receive Kennedy Center Honors!
Kennedy Center, via Wikimedia Commons The 44th Kennedy Center Honors, scheduled for December 5, might be delayed until 2022, because of the rise in Covid cases and what could very possibly be another pandemic winter. Or fans could be getting an unprecedented two-Kennedy Center … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay – Writer, Ernest Hemingway
July 21, 1899 - Ernest Hemingway: "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake." I haven't read any Hemingway in decades. In young, handsome, dynamic, delicious professor Daniel Roberto's American Literature 101 class in the autumn of 1972, I was so … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Natalie Wood
Photo from Columbia Pictures via YouTube July 20, 1938 – Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko: The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. The pallbearers at her funeral included: Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, Elia … [Read more...]
Emmys Slowly Edge Toward Ending Sex-Segregated Award Categories
In a move toward gender inclusion, the Emmy Awards announced this week that nominees and winners can have their awards listed as gender-neutral Performer instead of Actor or Actress. Almost all gender-specific occupations like Comedienne and Congressman are slowly being phased … [Read more...]
#WomenWeLove: “Backwards & In Heels” with Ginger Rogers
Photo MGM via YouTube After all, it's not as if we were Abbott and Costello. We did have careers apart from each other.Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers (1911- 1995) was a very versatile dancer/singer/actor of the stage and screen. She worked in dramas, musicals and comedies … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Barbara Stanwyck
Publicity still from Night Nurse, Warner Archive via YouTube July 16, 1907 - Barbara Stanwyck: "Egotism: Just a Case of Mistaken Nonentity." She is my favorite female film star. Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens in Brooklyn. She possessed an … [Read more...]
#FreeBritney: Shocking New Details in Britney Spears Conservatorship Nightmare
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino just published a devastating … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: The Mysterious Case of Journalist, Dorothy Kilgallen
Photo via YouTube July 3, 1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen: I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler. She started her career when she was 17 years old covering crime stories and she earned the reputation of being a good, thorough … [Read more...]
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