Links to the past with relevance today ... (more…)
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Past & Curious: Seeing Stars, Branding ‘Seinfeld’ as Inappropriate & More!
Offbeat Director Nicolas Roeg Dies @ 90
He directed Mick Jagger (b. 1943), David Bowie (1947-2016) and Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), among many others, establishing himself as an iconoclastic, visually adventurous director. (more…)
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Lypsinka Slays Wigstock
Lypsinka, a performer who reveres and revives famous folks of the past in her inimitable (and increasingly rare) live performances, lip-synched everyone under the table at Saturday's Wigstock revival in NYC. (more…)
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Past & Curious: 10 Gr8erDays Links!
Ten links to liven up your Oscars weekend: (more…)
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GR8ERDAYS Millennial Challenge! Do Young People Know Icons of the Past?
I was inspired to do a video project when, speaking with a millennial friend a year ago, it became clear he had never heard of ... Will & Grace! [caption id="attachment_4003" align="aligncenter" width="400"] She's comin' out — but are kids still noticing?[/caption] Having long been curious as to whether stars like Bette Davis and Judy Garland…
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Liz Smith, Gossip Queen, Dies @ 94
Liz Smith, whose gossip columns chided and cheered the elites of New York and Hollywood for decades, has died. She was 94. (more…)
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‘A Tad Overweight, but with Violet Eyes to Die For’: Elizabeth Taylor’s Middle Age
Garry Trudeau (b. 1948) immortalized Elizabeth Taylor's (1932-2011) mid-life dilemma in Doonesbury with a series of strips lampooning her role as a politician's wife during her marriage to future Sen. John Warner (b. 1927), a Virginia Republican. (more…)
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25 Stars’ 1st & Last TV & Film Gigs
I thought it would be easy. I was wrong. (more…)
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Montgomery Clift at 100: An Appreciation
Montgomery Clift would be 100 years old today, October 17, had he lived. (more…)
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