“Here’s to Your Mother”
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sergeant James Crowley, and President Barack Obama clink beer glasses at the start of their meeting in the White House rose garden on 30 July 2009.
Biographies
Bing Crosby: As Popular As Quintuplet Diapers
How popular was crooner Bing Crosby in his day?
That Uberdontic Amy Adams Smile
Amy Adams‘s special gift is that she can smile like this and still look just swell. Adams was arriving at Monday night’s LA premiere of Julie and Julia. Her co-star …..
Happy 85th Birthday, Black Dahlia
Elizabeth Short, the ill-fated “Black Dahlia,” would have been 85 today. She was only 22 when she died in January of 1947 — the same month that Al Capone passed out.
A Salute from Private Babe Ruth (Really!)
Given the normal image of Babe Ruth as a hard-drinking, skirt-chasing home run machine — and given that he played major league baseball from ages 19 through 40 — this …..
Happy 80th Birthday, Jackie Kennedy
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis would have turned 80 years old today. She was born on 28 July 1929, and was only 64 when she died in May of 1994. (By comparision, actress Dakota Fanning was born in 1994.)We’ve just added new photos of Mrs. Kennedy for the birthday — including this swell 1963 shot with the family dogs.
Awkward Photos With People in Animal Suits
Reese Witherspoon at the London premiere of Monsters vs. Aliens in March of this year. More Witherspoon photos here.(Credit: Zibi / WENN)
“Why Do You Hate Budweiser?”
Analyzing the beer selection for this week’s Obama-Crowley-Gates drinking session.
“A Good Advancement for the State”
“I feel great,” she said. “It was a smooth transition of power as it should be, and a good advancement for the state.”Sarah Palin, on her Sunday resignation as governor of Alaska.
Book Review: ‘Duchess of Death’
2 billion copies sold worldwide.Affairs, betrayal, and heartbreak.Novels translated into 105 languages.A bizarre 11-day disappearance in 1926 that has never been explained.So reads the breathless back cover of Duchess of Death, the nifty new biography of Agatha Christie by Richard Hack.