Take a time machine to the Jet Age, that sweet thin spot in the 60s and two brunettes stare you down from every corner newsstand or grocery checkout line. For every Khrushchev, or John Glenn, Ringo, George, Paul… Read More ›
Hollywood
A National Stage where Iconic Movie Stars meet Presidents & First Ladies.
Liz Taylor Meets Jackie Kennedy: Tabloid Fantasy to Chance Encounter & The Only Photos of Them Together, Part II
Just in case Photoplay’s dismissive March 1964 headline about Liz and Dick had suggested the wedding was a dull afterthought, the tab’s April cover made up for it, featuring the couple kissing with the lure of exclusive photos. The affirmation of… Read More ›
Cat & Bird: When Actress Eartha Kitt Challenged First Lady Johnson on the Vietnam War
The year 1968 was one of the most tumultuous experienced among the American people; enormous social change was underway. Protests, pickets and riots that year marked the start of what emerged as the national Black Power Movement and the Women’s… Read More ›
Those Seventies Women: Betty Ford on Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Tyler Moore at Betty Ford
Mary and Betty. Plain names, but when associated with two particularly famous women, both names can still become vivid enough to instantly recall their smiling wit and immediately place them in our collective memories, even for those not yet born… Read More ›
Debbie Reynolds, Nixon, Nostalgic Politics & Recalcitrant Carrie
Last week’s news of the sudden death by heart attack of actress and writer Carrie Fischer, followed a day later by her beloved mother and Hollywood actress and legend Debbie Reynolds by stroke, provoked numerous recollections of their individual and… Read More ›
Liz Taylor’s Bess Truman Shoe Story & Other White House Encounters
When they came together on January 7, 1946 for a scripted public service announcement over the CBS radio network, live from the ground-floor broadcast room of the White House, it seemed like there couldn’t be two more polar opposite individuals… Read More ›
Mae West New Year’s Eve, Partying Like It’s 1899
Many people recall their childhood as idyllic. Forty years after the fact, however, Mae West, got to publicly relive her own Gay Nineties childhood, recreating it on a grandly romanticized scale and sharing it with generations to come. She only… Read More ›
A Movie Star First Lady: Nancy Reagan’s Hollywood Acting Career
You might have caught Michelle Obama on Youtube during one of her television appearances with Jimmy Fallon or Ellen DeGeneres. Or maybe you caught the web episode of the kids show iCarly when she made a guest appearance. Perhaps you… Read More ›
The Little Rascals & George Washington: A Small Lift in the Great Depression
There they were, big names among Little Rascals: Wheezer, Stymie and Spanky, along with lesser known Sherwood, (third from left), Kendall and Dorothy (second and third from right), clothes pressed and antics still long enough to gaze with well-behaved… Read More ›
JFK, Joan Crawford & Why She was in Dallas When He was Shot
There’s been some peculiar pairs among Presidents and Movie Stars: Harry Truman and Tallulah Bankhead, George Bush and George Clooney, Richard Nixon and Jackie Gleason, Calvin Coolidge and Tom Mix John F. Kennedy and Movie Star Joan Crawford, however, might… Read More ›
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