Wright Brothers – Orville Wright – Charles Lindbergh – Will Rogers – Eleanor Roosevelt – Dorothy Height – Barack Obama – Khloé Kardashian – Kardashian Sisters Andrews, Marx, Kennedy, Jonas, Mitford, Del Rubio, Smothers, Rockefeller, Dolly, Baldwin. From business to… Read More ›
Presidents
Abraham Lincoln to Pee Wee Herman: Eight Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Abraham Lincoln – Ulysses. S. Grant – Mark Twain – Nikola Tesla – Albert Einstein – Charlie Chaplin – Alla Nazimova – Nancy Reagan – Rodney Dangerfield – Pee Wee Herman Continue reading →
Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon…and Civil Rights, Part II
In the weeks following Truman’s defeat of Dewey in the 1948 presidential election, the actress Tallulah Bankhead was hitting a pinnacle of national fame. Already renowned for her work on stage and film, her political role only increased her visibility…. Read More ›
Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon…and Civil Rights
One can’t find two names from politics and entertainment more seemingly dissimilar than that of President Harry S. Truman and actress Tallulah Bankhead. Yet apart from the fact that one was a marital monogamist and the other a bisexual minx,… Read More ›
Mao to Lady Gaga: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Mao Tse-Tung – Josef Stalin – Winston Churchill – Eleanor Roosevelt – Gary Cooper – Pablo Picasso – Brigitte Bardot – Queen Elizabeth – Lady Gaga Continue reading →
Presidents, First Ladies, Kings & Queens
President Barack Obama’s European visit this week marks the second time he will meet with Queen Elizabeth of England. Although the British monarch’s constitutional power is not equal to that of the American president’s, they meet equally as heads of… Read More ›
Mother's Day, the Guilty Daughter and Mamma's-Boy President Behind It
What many may think fuels Mother’s Day today is what seems to have fueled one woman to crusade for its creation – and then its destruction. Guilt. Never a mother herself, the “mother” of Mother’s Day, Miss Anna Jarvis, ninth… Read More ›
How The Wedding of British Princess Created an American Queen
In the media maelstrom around today’s wedding of England’s new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (more popularly known as Prince William and Princess Kate), the frequent note that Michelle Obama was not invited failed to recognize it as a lucky break,… Read More ›
Playing Presidents: The Actor JFK (and Jackie) wanted to Play him in the Movies, Part III
No President has had more versions of aspects of his life played out in film and television more than John F. Kennedy. The JFK character has appeared in a supporting role in any number of television biopics about others, from… Read More ›
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