Released from prison at the end of 2007 after serving 32 years, would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore was interviewed by Matt Lauer on TV this week.Moore was sent to jail for taking a shot at President Gerald Ford in 1975. She says she’s tired of being thought of as “a kook, a monster… an alien.”
In Germany somebody paid $93,800 for a rare postage stamp that shows Audrey Hepburn with a cigarette holder in her mouth.The stamp was printed in 2001 by Germany, but Hepburn’s son objected to the image of her smoking and didn’t give his permission so the stamps were destroyed. Most of them, anyway. They say an employee scampered off with some and used them as regular postage stamps. Since 2004 five of the stamps have been found.You can see the stamp in this exceedingly dull video from the Associated Press:
Miles Davis would have been 83 today, but he died in 1991.To honor the master trumpeter, we looked around and found this video of him playing that wild, ground-breaking piece “Bitches Brew”:
Just before heading to prison for a year (for trying to buy machine guns), rapper T.I. — born as Clifford Harris, Jr. — gave a concert at an Atlanta arena this weekend. There’s news and video about the event here.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, was born on this day in 1859.Given how charmingly ancient those stories seem now, it’s surprising to realize that it’s only 150 years since Doyle was born. He died in 1930 — the same year that Neil Armstrong and Clint Eastwood were born.
Actor Zachary Quinto, lately of the new Star Trek movie (he plays Mr. Spock), has this really cool video on his official site.
There’s a new Native American backside to the Sacagawea dollar coins.
Prince Charles meets Chief Almir Narayamoga of the Amazon rainforest at the Google 2009 European Zeitgeist conference in London on 19 May 2009.
Well, maybe. An “unnamed source” tells The Telegraph and Marie Claire UK that Jamie Foxx is “in the running” for the lead in a new Frank Sinatra biopic. (Martin Scorsese …..
In case you haven’t been following the expense scandal in Britain, The Telegraph has a helpful guide to the craziest claims.