Jazz-Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald has some jazzy suggestions for leftovers from The Crack-Up, a terrific posthumous collection of the great writer's essays, notebook excerpts, and letters. Under the heading Turkey Remains And How To Inter Them With Numerous … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Rock Icon, Jimi Hendrix
1967, Wikimedia Commons November 27, 1942 – James Maurice Hendrix: "Music Is Getting Too Heavy." Hendrix could have stayed in the US Army, where he probably would have been sent to Vietnam. Instead, he pretended he was gay. That was all it took to be discharged … [Read more...]
#ThanksgivingTBT: “Cooking with (Sharon) Needles” & Delta Work. Watch.
Happy Thanksgiving! This turkey day we are throwing it back to Cooking with Needles, a WOWPresents series starring [Read more...]
#WomenWeLove: Tina Turner
36 years ago, in the wake of divorce, debt and dismal record sales, Turner came up with a sensational comeback. At 45 years old, an age when most pop singer's careers are fading, Turner's album Private Dancer, delivered her from commercial purgatory to become the singer's … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Composer, Virgil Thomson
Via Wikimedia Commons November 25, 1896– Virgil Thomson was born in the heart of the USA. He was an influential and important 20th century music critic and a composer. Thomson was one of a group of young gay musicians including Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay 1963: JFK Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is Killed by Jack Ruby
Photo by Jack Beers Jr. for The Dallas Morning News, from the Warren Commission report, public domain via Wikimedia Commons November 24, 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is Killed by Jack Ruby You think the USA is crazy in 2020; here's a look at 1963! If it was a film, this story … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Candy Darling
Darling by David Bailey, 1973 November 24, 1944– Candy Darling: 'I am a star because I have always felt so alienated and I project this feeling to others.' She was a film star, a socialite, a model, a celebrity, Manhattan Bohemian royalty and inspiration to … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Performer, Harpo Marx
November 23, 1888 – Harpo Marx: "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs." For much of my life I have been noted as a man of few words. In the summer of 2007, after a particularly difficult and uncharacteristically strong fight with The Husband, … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “It is Better to Be Hated for What You Are Than to Be Loved for Something You Are Not.” -André Gide
Bob Dylan refused to attend the 2016 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, so did Alice Munro in 2013. In 1958, Soviet dissident poet Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize he was awarded for his popular novel Doctor Zhivago. In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre declined his … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Composer, Benjamin Britten
November 22, 1913– Benjamin Britten: "It is cruel that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony." Although I … [Read more...]
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