La Wanda “Aunt Esther” Page to Frank Sinatra to Richard Nixon to the Duke of Windsor to Queen Victoria It’s only a mere four degrees of separation from a Queen of Comedy, actress La Wanda Page to a Queen of… Read More ›
History
The Very First Online Hookups, Old-School Style
The latest generation of electronic tech promising the most reliable hookup for those looking to meet is always new. Human desires for love and lust is not. Long decades before the likes of hundreds of ubiquitous sites allowed the almighty… Read More ›
Jackie’s Husband & the Onassis Mistress: JFK & Callas (& Marilyn Monroe) Get Together
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy, born on May 29, had his birthday turned into a massive Hollywood meets Washington convergence at a May 19 fundraiser held in New York’s Madison Square Garden. The event proved highly successful, paying off… Read More ›
Tennessee’s Jack & Mary Fudge Pie
Many people recognize the taste of Jack & Coke from a sip. One bite will never let you forget Jack & Mary. Since it first filtered the fresh spring water of local caves through a sour corn mash into barrels… Read More ›
Silent Cal & The Silent Era Cowboy: Coolidge Mix with Tom
Even in the era of bathtub gin, flappers and daredevils sitting atop flagpoles for days on end, it was a pretty startling sight. Here came a massive chestnut-colored horse galloping through the gates of the White House to pause beneath… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
“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 ›
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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