She is my favorite female film star. Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) was born Ruby Catherine Stevens in Brooklyn. She possessed an unusual beauty and a distinctive husky voice. She was an extremely versatile actor, moving easily between Melodramas, Thrillers, Westerns, and Screwball … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: “Backwards & In Heels”, Ginger Rogers
July 16, 1911 - Virginia Katherine McMath: "After all, it's not as if we were Abbott and Costello. We did have careers apart from each other." Ginger Rogers was a very versatile dancer/singer/actor of the stage and screen. She worked in dramas, musicals and comedies … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Homophobia Is Anti-Family Values. Period, End Of Story.” – Linda Ronstadt
Linda Marie Ronstadt has been providing me with listening pleasure for 45 years, often taking a leading role on the soundtrack of my life, taking me through ups, downs, fears, and tears. Folk, Rock, Punk, Country, Broadway, Standards, Opera, Jazz, Traditional Mexican, … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay, Lyricist, Dorothy Fields
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 America''. He was referencing the lyrics from Pick Yourself Up: ''Pick … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Take It From Me, To Be a Stripper, All You Need To Have is No Talent.” – Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents (1917 - 2011) was a writer and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway's landmark shows, Gypsy (1957) and West Side Story (1959) and created one of the best romantic films of all time, The Way We Were (1973). He won four Tony Awards … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Traveler, Gertrude Bell
July 14, 1868 - Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell Another fun lesbian, Gertrude Bell was highly influential in the British imperial policies because of the knowledge and contacts she made during her extensive travels in the Middle East. On a July night in 1926, Bell took a … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: The Sad, Strange Tale of Actor Bob Crane
July 13, 1928 – Bob Crane Back in the 1960s, before his name was linked to sex addiction, X-rated videotapes, and a murder, Bob Crane starred in the popular CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). He was a good choice for television comedy ideal leading man: handsome, … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: ”Love Is So Short, Forgetting Is So Long”. – Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (1904- 1973) was born Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto in Temuco, a frontier town, an outpost above Patagonia. Neruda was a true literary prodigy and began to fill up notebooks with his poems as a young kid. He read Victor Hugo and Maxim Gorky and translated … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Pianist, Van Cliburn
July 12, 1934– Van Cliburn: "I'm not a success, I'm a sensation." When I was a kid, I would study the photos on the covers of my parental units' Van Cliburn albums and I would get that familiar, perplexing tingle of recognition and arousal. I mistakenly thought he had one name: … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, Yul Brynner
July 11, 1920- Yul Brynner ''On my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived'. Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.'' Preparing this #BornThisDay post, I got lost in looking at photographs of him. So exotic; so alluring; so … [Read more...]
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