Author Archives
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Twilight’s Robert Pattinson & Taylor Lautner to Laurel & Hardy: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Pattinson & Taylor to David Beckham to Prince Harry to Princess Diana to David Bowie to Bing Crosby to Laurel & Hardy It turns out that while these degrees of separation start and end with popular American feature film co-stars,… Read More ›
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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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Tupak Shakur to Minnie Pearl: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Tupac Shakur to Snoop Dogg to Pee Wee Herman to Minnie Pearl You might not know who Lesane Parish Crook, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , Paul Rubenfeld, and Sarah Colley Cannon are, but you’d know their faces, voices, jokes and… Read More ›
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Coffee Break With the Presidents
If any professional career has an excuse for a pot or two of coffee a day, its the Presidency. What with oil spills, failed North Korean missile launches, closing down one war before starting a new one, unfair spin, untrue… Read More ›
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“Hello Lyndon!” How Carol Channing Helped LBJ Win the Election
They were both accused, at times, of being corny caricatures, but as human beings the legendary President from Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Hollywood and Broadway actress Carol Channing were exuberant and enthusiastic about what they loved most. And in… Read More ›
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The Saucy Pie of Granite State Skinflints
Massachusetts is the big, important state which dominates New England. Tell that to New Hampshire. When it comes to Marlborough Pie, at least, New Hampshire has the granite edge on the Bay State. Kevin Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, authors of… Read More ›
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The Mad Men Era White House Easter Egg Roll, 1961
The familiar hot pinks and pale blues of the incumbent First Lady Jackie Kennedy were no where to be seen at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 3, 1961, but the adults and children attending the event… Read More ›
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Lincoln Son’s Concern for Disabled Boy Starts White House Easter Egg Roll
This year’s White House Easter Egg Roll marks what is likely the 150th anniversary of it as an event to which members of the public have been invited. It is a tradition not begun in 1878 by President Rutherford Hayes… Read More ›
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Jack and Jackie Kennedy Home Movies & Pictures of their Presidential Easters
They’re the most famous First Family, and it’s the most famous White House public event – so why didn’t President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, First Daughter Caroline Kennedy and First Son John Kennedy, Jr. ever make an appearance… Read More ›
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