A Pair of Aces
We don’t care who was born first. Happy 200th birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. You studs.
Biographies
“Old Dog Pulls a New Trick”
“Having just turned 10, a Sussex spaniel called Stump became the oldest best in show winner at the Westminster Kennel Club, ending his retirement last week and taking the big prize Tuesday night.”ABC News has the story.Isn’t that kind of like a 70-year-old winning the Miss America pageant?
Lordy, Birdie, Uh, Jive, Look Who’s 40 and 30 and 45
Jennifer Aniston turns 40 today.And Brandy “Moesha” Norwood turns 30.And Sarah Palin turns, even if it’s not a round number, 45.
Bar Refaeli is the 2009 Sports Illustrated Cover Girl
She’s the Israeli supermodel who’s been dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio since 2006.The issue is due out in a few days, but SI already has posted its online edition, including slightly comical video of Refaeli rolling in the surf.Last year’s cover model was Marisa Miller.
Round Rapping at the 2009 Grammys
What to wear when you’re nine months pregnant and still performing at the Grammys? Rapper M.I.A. has two ideas.
“I had this expectation that my career would be one in which I didn’t crash an airplane”
Flight 1549 as experienced by the captain and the flight crew.
We Stand Corrected on Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy
A sharp-eyed Who2 reader writes:
Which Came First: The Darwin or the Abe?
“As Aquarians, they should both be stubborn, visionary, tolerant, free-spirited, rebellious, genial but remote and detached — hmmm, so far, so good.”It’s true: Scientist Charles Darwin and President Abraham Lincoln were born on the exact same day: 12 February 1809.
The Lincoln Canon
There’s a joke in the publishing world. A writer asks his editor for ideas about a commercially promising topic for a book. “Lincoln’s doctor’s dog,” the editor unhesitatingly responds.What to read for Abe Lincoln’s 200th birthday? Fred Kaplan breaks down the bios (and cracks on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “hyperbolic” Team of Rivals).
So Long, James Whitmore
“I find the process of making movies absolutely boring. It’s so fragmented. You wait and wait and wait and then, look, as Jack Lemmon says, ‘It’s magic time.’ In the theater, once the curtain goes up, the actor is in charge.” The actor James Whitmore has died at age 87 of lung cancer. He was diagnosed just before Thanksgiving.