Today really should be a National Holiday…..
Bette Davis was born April 5th, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts…
She has always been one of my favorite actresses…
Here are some of her memorable scenes…
There were so many…
“Now, Voyager”
“All About Eve”
And so many more…
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I knew there would be a backlash…
I still can’t believe they paid her $32K, which is 2$ more than they are paying Toni Morrison to give the graduation speech…
If I was paying Rutgers tuition, I would be furious…
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.–Angry parents of students attending Rutgers University blasted the decision to pay Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi $32,000 to give a campus talk last week — and said she should stay on the Jersey Shore, the New York Post reported Sunday.
“It’s disgusting,” said Nester Delgado, 43, whose daughter is a Rutgers freshman.
“Next year, is it going to be J-WOWW or The Situation?”
Parents fumed that Snooki was paid nearly $10,000 more than the $23,466 they have to fork over annually in tuition fees and housing to send their kids to the Garden State university.
“I don’t think she’s a good representation of a role model for my kids,” said Christine Getz, 47, a part-time preschool teacher who has a son and daughter at Rutgers.
The boardwalk bimbo drew 2,000 students to both of her Q&A sessions Thursday night at which she offered tales of her rise to “guidette” stardom, and offered such advice as “When you’re tan, you feel better about yourself,” and “Study hard, but party harder.”
The backlash comes after many students spoke out against the decision to host the reality TV star on campus.
“As an RU student, I’m really ashamed,” one student tweeted, according to FOXNews.com
“My tuition dollars wasted on Snooki,” another student wrote. “Rutgers probably could have paid her with a case of beer.”
Members of the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA), which organized the event, defended the high speaking fee, saying the group had been looking for someone who could appeal to the student community.
“We’re trying to provide different kinds of experiences to students,” said the group’s president, Ana Castillo.
Snooki’s $32,000 fee caused a stir when it was revealed she got $2,000 more than Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison will get for this year’s commencement address.
via Rutgers Parents Outraged by Snooki Speech – FoxNews.com.
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Whenever Politics give me the Mean Reds, there’s nothing like an Audrey Hepburn film to take the edge off…
This was one of her best. Hard to believe it was made 50 years ago…
It’s still one of my favorites…
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She’s 89 today…
Here are a couple of clips: One of her most famous song and one of her and her friends talking about the “real” Doris Day.
I’m not ashamed to admit it; I just love Doris and wish her many more happy birthdays!
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It’s hard to believe either of these facts…
It’s also hard to believe what a cultural impact the movie “Love Story” had…
And it’s hard to believe Ryan O’Neal was once good-looking and somewhat sane…
I was a child and my parent’s wouldn’t let me go see it, so I read the book…
Just like I did with “Valley of the Dolls”, “Peyton Place” and “The Exorcist”…
It was years later when I finally saw it….and didn’t think it was very good.
But it was a very big deal when it first came out…
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry” was one of the silliest movie lines I ever heard…
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I can’t believe everyone is still talking about this…
Of course, it was really bad…
But as I said, I blame the writers and, if you read the closing line carefully, apparently so does James Franco…
From PopEater.com. Emphasis is mine..
For the first time since hosting the Oscars, James Franco is addressing rumors that he was stoned during the gig. In an interview on ‘The Late Show With Dave Letterman,’ airing Thursday evening, the actor reveals why he appeared so low energy.
“People said I was under the influence,” Franco said during his ‘Late Show’ interview, which airs tonight.
“Now why would they say that?” asked Letterman with a laugh.
The ‘127 Hours’ actor replied, “I’ve thought about it. I think I know why, because–I love her–but Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway.”
“Truthfully,” Franco added, “and I haven’t watched it back, maybe I had low energy. I actually played those lines as well as well as I could.”
via James Franco: Anne Hathaway Made Me Look Stoned at Oscars | PopEater.com.
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How can he look like this at 47???
Amazing…
I swear he looks better than he did in “St Elmo’s Fire”, one of my favorite 1980’s films…
He must have made a deal with the devil….
It’s Dorian Gray time….
From the latest Vanity Fair:
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Only in America….
HAMILTON, Mont. – A RadioShack in Montana is offering would-be satellite television customers more bang for their buck.
The Ravalli Republic reports customers who sign up for some Dish Network packages at RadioShack in Hamilton will receive a coupon for a pistol or shotgun and the required background check. Those not interested in a gun get a $50 Pizza Hut gift card.
Store owner Steve Strand says it took some haggling to get Dish Network to go along with the promotion, but it has tripled his business since last October.
The sign outside the business reads: “Protect yourself with Dish Network. Sign up now, get free gun.”
via Montana store offering free gun with Dish Network purchase | StarTribune.com.
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Great article from Christopher Shinn, a playwright who’s work I much admire, in The Guardian. I’ve been lucky enough to see a couple of his plays in New York…
I’ve seen a fair amount of theatre in London and a lot of theatre in New York….
There are definitely differences in both the audiences and how work is presented…
Generalisations all, but perhaps with a grain of truth. Maybe, too, American actors and directors know that their theatregoers are impatient. They sense a reluctance to give themselves over to someone else’s self-expression – whereas in London, the greater ease at being a part of a group means the actors and director assume a generous audience, not an always-potentially-dissatisfied one.
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Lost in the 21st Century 
“The Onion” is Closing Down…
April Fool! Thank god!
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And I will miss them…
They were a great satirical website and newspaper….
But the world has gotten so crazy- especially in Washington- it was sometimes hard to differentiate their satire from reality…
From Eric Francis at Planet Waves:
via Astrology, Horoscopes, Monthly Horoscopes, Weekly Horoscopes, Daily Astrology Blog, | The Onion: After 27 Years, Says Enough Already | Daily Astrology & Adventure by Eric Francis.
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