Whose Hair is Bigger?
Fuzzy, but worth it: Julia Roberts guest-stars with Don Johnson in a 1988 episode of Miami Vice.
Biographies
Can It Really Be Only Five Years
…since Tony Randall died?Seems longer. Yasser Arafat and Captain Kangaroo passed out that same year.
Harriet Tubman’s Last Words Were Biblical
To the clergyman she said “Give my love to all the churches” and after a severe coughing spell she blurted out in a thick voice this farewell passage which she had learned from Matthew: “I go away to prepare a place for you, and where I am ye may be also.” So says the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, quoting an obituary in the Auburn (NY) Citizen.
Misspelling of the Day
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Steve Martin and A Guy in a Panther Costume
Comedian Steve Martin poses with a guy in a Pink Panther costume before a screening of Pink Panther 2 at the Berlin Film Festival on 13 February 2009. (Photo supplied by WENN.)One in our upcoming photo series of celebrities posing with people in animal costumes.
Jack Kerouac in the Catbird Seat
Wow! Beat author Jack Kerouac played elaborate fantasy baseball games of his own devising.By 1946, when Kerouac was 24, he had devised a set of cards with precise verbal descriptions of various outcomes (“slow roller to ss,” for example), depending on the skill levels of the pitcher and batter. The game could be played using cards alone, but Mr.
They Love Him in France
83-year-old Jerry Lewis on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
Derby-Winning Jockey “Basically a Hillbilly”
“He’s respected by everybody, but he’s basically a hillbilly… He’s not going to invent anything.”USA Today analyzes the brains of Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Calvin Borel before Saturday’s Preakness.
Farrah Fawcett “In Dying Days”
Reuters is now reporting that actress Farrah Fawcett is near death. (And involved in some kind of complicated lawsuit, it seems.)
Watching Angels & Demons is “like being waterboarded by exposition”
The Chicago Tribune doesn’t love it:Three years later the major players are back for more grandiloquent hackery. Hanks returns to the dullest role of his career, under the direction of Howard, who takes the material as seriously as a kidney stone on the way out.