via University of Virginia archives July 22, 1849 - Emma Lazarus: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Fab Singer, Kay Starr
Photo via Oklahoma Hall of Fame July 21, 1922 – Kay Starr: On my first record I sounded like a jazzed-up alfalfa on that, at the time I didn't know what a 'range' was, besides something you cooked on, or something that cattle grazed on A long time ago, before the was … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Natalie Wood
Photo from Columbia Pictures via YouTube July 10, 1938 – Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko: The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. At the funeral service for Natalie Wood, the pallbearers … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, Hurd Hatfield
From The Picture Of Dorian Gray via YouTube screen-grab July 18, 1917- Hurd Hatfield Poor Hurd Hatfield, throughout his career in film, television and stage productions, he was always associated with The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1945), after playing the title role in Oscar … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actress, Lupe Vélez
Via YouTube July 18, 1908 - Lupe Vélez Mexican Spitfire is not a term that the president uses for Latin bondage porn; you're thinking of Mexican Hayride. Mexican Spitfireis used to describe a series of seven films released by the RKO Pictures between 1940 and 1943 starring … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “I Admit It; I Have a Tremendous Sex Drive. My Boyfriend Lives 40 Miles Away.” – Phyllis Diller
Photo via YouTube Phyllis Diller (1917 - 2012) loved The Gays: Gay men have the most wonderful sense of humor, they are willing to laugh. They appeal to me and I appeal to them. Her one-liners skewered her gawky looks and her domestic life, but she never stooped to the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott by Hank O'Neal, 1979 July 17, 1898– Berenice Abbott: Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. I have a passion for Photography, whether it is formal portraiture, ads or commercial work, art … [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: Writer, Reinaldo Arenas
July 16, 1943 - Reinaldo Arenas: I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living In his memoir Before Night Falls (1992), Reinaldo Arenas writes of growing up poor in … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Lyricist, Dorothy Fields
Photo by Walter Albertin from Library of Congress July 15, 1905– Dorothy Fields In his first inauguration speech, President Barack Obama pleaded: Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking … [Read more...]
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