A (Very) Modest Tribute

Because I’m morbid, and spend my time on things such as this, I thought of the following video as being exactly the one I would want to post when… Well, as Richard said, “It’s good we had some warning that he was sick, otherwise when we heard, we would have just been walking around bumping […]

Gotta Love Liz

Just had to share this… Elizabeth Taylor was hospitalized for an undisclosed reason but was expected to return home soon, representatives for the Oscar-winning actress said Thursday. A statement released by Dick Guttman, her Los Angeles-based publicist, did not say where Taylor was staying, nor did it specify what might have been ailing the 76-year-old […]

Harlow, Jean…

…on the cover of a magazine. (Heh. Now you’ve got that song in your head too.) I’m in One Of My Phases lately (Which are probably more aptly described as periodic obsessions — or temporary madnesses), and that means that in my apartment lately, it’s all 1930’s movies, all the time. This week there’s a […]

My Dearest Childhood Dream…

…was to be Cyd Charisse. http://youtu.be/7YWBOfsXsDA I still badly want that dress. The way I got the news was from the BBC News headline on my Google Homepage: “Musical Star Charisse Dies in LA.” Took me a second to figure that out — that it wasn’t some current music star whose name began and ended […]