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My face has always been my fortune
"In any of the arts, you never stop learning.""Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.""I like to work in Hollywood, but I don't want to live...
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Unlikely conversations, #397 in a series
Groucho Marx and Diana RossEleanor Roosevelt and Lucille BallEartha Kitt and Marilyn MonroeGloria Vanderbilt, Pearl Bailey and Truman CapoteKathleen Turner, Madonna, Martha Graham and Calvin KleinOh,...
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The strange sound of flesh escaping under flesh
Working class boy-made-good. Misogynist. Libertine. Argumentative bigot. Modernist poet. Purple prose-writer. Smut-merchant. Outsider. Genius. Many and varied are the opinions that have been espoused...
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Her voice always wears mink
[Crespin, Regina Resnik and Renata Tebaldi]Today let us celebrate one of the greats of 20th century opera, Mlle Régine Crespin (whose birthday it would have been earlier this week). Of her talents,...
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The Women of Weatherfield...
Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell, Martha LonghurstElsie TannerBet LynchAnnie WalkerBetty TurpinHilda OgdenRita Tanner (née Littlewood, previously Sullivan, and Fairclough) and Mavis RileyDeirdre Barlow...
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Found in the "Sexual Deviancy" section
On this, World Book Day, I thought I'd revisit one of my favourite books, ever. I first wrote about it eight years ago, after our visit to an event at the Southbank Centre called The Lavender Library,...
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Saint Bowie?
Images from Saint Bowie - "An exhibition of artist-made reliquaries, ex votos, Santos, sigils, altars, ephods, spirit photos and much more objects dedicated to communing with Bowie on the other...
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It's all about the Women
"You simply must see my hairdresser, I DETEST whoever does yours.""She’s got those eyes that run up and down a man like a searchlight.""Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it.""He almost stood me up...
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The Patron Saint of Pizzazz
"I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.""The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.""I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target....
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How would that look in lights?
"Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.""I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.""I have always had a lot more trouble with my...
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The Flirt
Spring is a flirt. Unexpectedly gleamingOver the shoulder of some far blue hill.We glimpse the blue eyes of her, smiling and beaming,We hold out our hands to her, all of a thrill.A bloom in her lips,...
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Smile!
...It's Miss Crawford's birthday, bitches!Show.Those.Teeth.Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur, 23rd March 1904 – 10th May 1977)
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Goodnight, Miss Neely O'Hara
RIP Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (14th December 1946 – 29th March 2016), star of The Miracle Worker and, of course, Valley of the Dolls.Here's her angst-ridden rendition of the theme from that cult camp...
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"Look at the muck on here!"
"I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't play an instrument. But I've done everything from school nativity plays to the London Palladium."From the h2g2 site:Larry Grayson dominated a niche of British...
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I think today should be...
...a "Say Something Hat" day, don't you?"Mr John" hat, 1950sAnn SothernLoretta YoungClaudette Colbert on the set of ZazaThe munters at Aintree Grand National Ladies' Day had nothing on these.
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