— Madeleine Carroll
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
— Madeleine Carroll
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— Madeleine Carroll
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise lounge, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.”
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Friday Photos: UnBaltimore Edition
-Marilyn Monroe
Photo by Andre de Dienes, 1950.
The Baltimore neighborhood that saw the worst of the violence was already filled with many burned-out buildings and vacant lots that had not been rebuilt since the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Source via my friend Neo-Neocon
Nothing more to say but enjoy the photos.
Hollywood Star Ads: Buy Me, Be Me
Ever since there were movie stars there have been star product endorsements.
Corporations and their advertising companies were quick to understand that those larger than life figures floating like angels on the silver screen were potent persuaders. Thus, the synergistic relationship between one product, the movie star, and a consumer product — cigarettes, perfume, makeup, whatever — was born, and continues with increasing power and sophistication to this very day.
The idea is simplicity itself: Buy me, be me.
Seraphic Secret Hollywood Star Quiz
Chanukah is a time for latkes—which I don’t eat out of respect to my heart and my waistline.
It’s also a time of prayer. We sing Hallel during morning prayer, and after sundown, when lighting the menorah, we chant additional prayers.
Chanukah is also a time for games. Spinning the dreidel is the most popular.
So, in honor of Chanukah, we’re rolling out Seraphic Secret’s popular game: “Who The Heck Is That Spooky Looking Kid Who Grew Up To Become a Hollywood Star?”