I mean Joanna Lumley, the incredibly talented actress who played Patsy in “Absolutely Fabulous”, one of my favorite TV shows…
Even though, in those years Pats and Eddie hit a little close to home on occasion….
Joanna Lumley really is more than Patsy Stone. She’s an incredibly talented British stage and film actress.
But she will forever be known to many as “Pats”.
Filed under Entertainment, Television
Here is the newsreel coverage of the marriage of Grace Kelly to Prince Ranier….
I can’t help but think Kate Middleton, the new Duchess of Cambridge, drew some inspiration from Grace’s dress and veil…
Filed under Entertainment, History
Otherwise known as Ann Margret….
I can’t believe she’s 70 today…
Here she is in “Viva Las Vegas” with some guy….
Filed under Entertainment
Two icons were born today: Barbra Streisand is 69 and Virginia’s own Shirley MacLaine is 77….
Of course, I have to put up a couple of clips:
A little prime Streisand:
And a little MacLaine:
Filed under Broadway, Entertainment, Gay, Movies
In recognition of her Carnegie Hall Concert 50 years ago tonight, there’s a lot of new interest in Judy Garland.
Here is a great article from this month’s Vanity Fair:
In December 1959, Judy Garland, only 37 but with a quarter-century of hard living behind her, lay near death in New York’s Doctors Hospital. Alcohol and pills were the culprits. When in reasonably good health, Garland, who stood an inch under five feet, weighed 100 pounds. Now she weighed 180. Her tiny frame was grotesquely swollen with fluid and her liver severely compromised. Her eyes were glazed; her memory was failing; her body was shutting down. Walking by Garland’s hospital room, a close friend overheard a clutch of doctors discussing her condition. One of them turned to the friend. “I have to tell you the truth,” the doctor said. “I don’t think she’s going to make it.”
She made it. “She had the constitution of an army,” Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft says. “She just knew she had to keep going.” But three weeks later, after 20 quarts of fluid had been drained from her body, her lead physician told Garland, “For the rest of your life, all your physical activity must be curtailed. You are a permanent semi-invalid.… It goes without saying that under no circumstances can you ever work again.”
Garland fell back onto her pillows. “Whoopee!” she cried, weakly.
I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since this movie was released….
It’s not the best film in the world, but I do love it…
It’s a guilty pleasure…
Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Hart Bochner….all in their prime.
It was the last film George Cukor directed and the first film for Meg Ryan….
Filed under Entertainment, Movies
And it looks like it’s going to be good…
I’m so glad because I loved this book….
Here it is:
I read today that Michael Sarrazin had died…
He was one of my favorite actors when I was a pre-teen and a teenager…I had looked him up on IMDB.com not too long ago to see what he was doing…
He hit fairly big in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, but his career never really took off from there…
His eyes were unforgettable…
He missed his big chance when his studio would not release him to do “Midnight Cowboy” and Jon Voight got the part instead…
I remember Michael Sarrazin well from “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They”, “Sometimes a Great Notion” and the TV Mini Series”Frankenstein: The True Story”. He made many other films and TV appearances that will live on….
Filed under Entertainment, Movies
Not even John Wayne…
Pictures like this and films like “Red River” are why the gay whispers never die out about The Duke…
A new look for the conservative Icon:
John Wayne in espadrilles and other beach attire...
Filed under Broadway, Entertainment, Movies
Lost in the 21st Century 