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#BornThisDay: Gilda Radner
June 28, 1946 - Gilda Radner: ''I Base My Fashion Sense on What Doesn't Itch.'' Funny, talented, touching cutie-pie Gilda Radner, I still miss her. Can you imagine how terrific she would be and what amazing performances she would have still have been able to give us while in … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, John Mahoney
June 20, 1940 – John Mahoney: ''I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.'' John Mahoney might be known to you as Martin Crane, the irascible father of Frasier … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, Paul Lynde
From The Paul Lynde Show, 1972 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain June 13, 1926– Paul Lynde My favorite Paul Lynde anecdote: In the early 1960s, Lynde was on a transcontinental flight and a rather dreadful child was not being supervised by her parents, running up and … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Joan Rivers
June 8, 1933 - Joan Alexandra Molinsky: "I Might Like Parisians More if They Named Their Streets Only for Gay Icons, Like Rue Liza Minnelli or Rue Bette Midler or, My Favorite, Rue McClanahan." In 1990, when he was in the middle of a very public divorce from Ivana Trump … [Read more...]
Classic Nickelodeon Series ‘iCarly’ Is Back with the Original Cast
Gen Z nostalgia is heating up, as evidenced by the reboot of iCarly, the now-classic 2007 Nickelodeon series returning on Paramount+ with original cast members Miranda Cosgrove, Nathan Kress, and Jerry Trainor. Watch the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Comic Genius, Beatrice Lillie
Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948, Wikimedia Commons May 29, 1894 - Beatrice Lillie To a waiter who had spilled soup on her: "Never darken my Dior again!" It gives me a heavy heart that so many people under the age of 60, don't know about, or care about, many of the … [Read more...]
Jack Plotnick’s Retro Tiki Room Sendup Is a Delight
Over half a century ago, Walt Disney introduced the world to his Tiki Room animatronics. Now Jack Plotnick has created a brilliant musical about the … [Read more...]
#RIP, Deliciously Droll Actor, Charles Grodin
In Midnight Run via YouTube We lost actor Charles Grodin on Tuesday. He was never a big star, maybe because he played his roles without bringing his own baggage along. His gift was an ability to present resentment and superiority with an air of placid understatement. In his … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer / Filmmaker, Nora Ephron
Screen-grab from O Network via YouTube May 19, 1941– Nora Ephron: "Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you’re constantly reaching for the name of the person you met … [Read more...]
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