Sometimes looking at just what famous faces came to meet a President can suggest the man in the White House as being one who knows what’s up with the people outside the gates of what Harry Truman called, ‘the great… Read More ›
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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 ›
Ronald Reagan & Bette Davis: Politically Oppositional Co-Stars
Unlike Presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon, or Obama, chronicling an unusual pairing between any Hollywood Actor or Actress and Ronald Reagan is almost an exercise in futility, a nearly moot story since Reagan was himself a professional Hollywood Actor… Read More ›
Miami Golf and UFOs? Why Jackie Gleason Campaigned for Nixon and a Shocking Allegation
It’s absolutely certain that they shared two great passions. Miami, and golf. And, legend has it, actor and performer Jackie Gleason and President Richard Nixon had a mutual curiosity about UFO’s and extra-terrestrial beings. Yet in the public imagination, they… Read More ›
Lime, Salt & Peggy Lee: The Texas Margarita Pie
It’s a long, winding trail to the Margarita Pie of Texas, with detours along the Mexican border, intoxicating flights of imagination to Bali, even speculation into the private life of the marriage of singer Peggy Lee and her husband. Among… Read More ›
Mourning in Hooterville: The Nicest Guy Is Dead
Hooterville and Petticoat Junction suffered a tragic loss today with news that Sam Drucker, owner and manager of Drucker’s General Store has died. He was also postmaster, editor of the Hooterville World-Guardian and Justice of the Peace. He was known… Read More ›
Other Photos & Stars from Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday Night to JFK & His Reaction
Fifty years ago tonight, more happened than just Marilyn Monroe singing her famous sultry rendition of Happy Birthday to President Kennedy. With the need to reduce so much news and history to a single snapshot image or quotable line, the… 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 ›
A White House Super Bowl Party Menu of Favorite Presidential Foods
Whether it’s been an isolated President and First Lady at Camp David, their First Family and First Friends in the White House private quarters or a large rollicking crowd with conflicting team loyalties, White House Super Bowl parties are a… Read More ›
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