Her full name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, but from the start she was always just “Jackie” to both those who genuinely knew her as a real person, and to those who felt they truly knew her, so closely… Read More ›
Legendary Americans
From all times and backgrounds, Individualistic Americans who changed how we think and do.
Mae West, Sex, Love & Her Secret Valentine
“Love and sex are best together,” said Mae West. “But they ain’t so bad on their own neither.” On Valentine’s Day each year, Mae West could count on getting a heart-shaped box of chocolates, figuratively speaking, from the one person… Read More ›
Our Speakers of the House: Violent, Drunk, Lying, Cheating, Cursing
This is an updated version of a previous, deleted version: One died of a drug overdose, another with his mistress. One spit on citizens, another made an ex-con jailed for attempted murder his closest aide. All had the power to… 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 ›
Joe Namath: The Happy Hipster who Made the Superbowl Happen
There he was, today, once again making the football field he stood on the the center of the world’s attention. In case twenty-first century eyes didn’t recognize the seventy-year old man who tossed the coin kicking off today’s Superbowl… Read More ›
Felix Baumgartner Left Earth Today to Free-Fall Thru the Sound Barrier…And History
Not as much of the world may, right now, be watching television as it did a half-century ago when, in 1961, U.S. astronaut John Glenn flew in the first space capsule to orbit the globe, or waiting by a radio… Read More ›
Mae West Nude, Getting Naked, Fighting Father Time…and Living
In her later years, Mae West spoke out against nudity in feature films – not on a moral basis but because she felt it didn’t allow the imagination to wander. “Never drop the seventh veil,” she once said about actors… Read More ›
My Chats with Gore Vidal on the Presidents & First Ladies
I did not know Gore Vidal well, but I’d read some of his books, and he’d read some of mine. We met three times: once at the National Press Club in Washington, a second time at the White House, and… Read More ›
Red, White & Betsy Ross: No, She Didn’t! (Did She?) Plus Bizarre Betsyabilia
There’s good reason why Pennsylvania not only recognizes Independence Day as a national holiday, but also Flag Day as a state holiday. It ‘s all because of that Elizabeth Claypoole. Mrs. Ross, to you. Like Plymouth Rock and George Washington cutting down… Read More ›
Mae Day 1966: 72-Year Old Mae West Decides to Rock and Roll
The Psychedelic Sixties started with the Swinging Summer of Sixty-Six in Southern California, popularized by the Beach Boys and the Beach Party – certainly more a notion of the imagination and movies, perhaps than reality for most young Americans at… Read More ›
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