Links to the past, with relevance today: Here's to up yours! (GIF via GIPHY) NYT: Why you, too, should fall in love again with All About Eve (1950). https://www.instagram.com/p/B_c2ewZA2mK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link INSTAGRAM: Incredible that Kirk Douglas — who died at 103 — has a surviving widow who just celebrated her 101st. NYT: Steve Dalkowski, who was used…
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Dead or Alive: Famously Dead, Surprisingly Alive
This post combines two elements of pop culture nostalgia that regularly come up in terms of celebs of the past — "Oh, my God, I can't believe he/she died!" and, "Oh, my God, I can't believe he/she is still alive!" ... (more…)
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The Birds: Hitchcock’s Living Leading Ladies
When Joan Fontaine died at the ripe old age of 96, I was thinking she must surely have been the earliest of Alfred Hitchcock's leading ladies still living. Nope! She had been the oldest, but there was — at the time — one leading lady working with Hitchcock a decade before Joan, and she was…
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