Happy Birthday Bob Hope (1903-2003)
“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom”
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Ray Charles plays in Nashville, Tennessee (1959)
“I never considered myself part of rock ‘n’ roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my stuff was filled with more despair than anything you’d associate with rock ‘n’ roll. Since I couldn’t see people dancing, I didn’t write jitterbugs or twists. I wrote rhythms that moved me. My style required pure heart singing.”
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Iconic Black Comedians:
Red Foxx; became one of the first black comics to work as a headliner in Las Vegas, where he entertained all-white audiences
Richard Pryor; irreverent comedic style made him one of the top comics in the 1970s and 80s
Bill Cosby; an educator and a comedian, known for his popular television series, The Cosby Show
Whoopi Goldberg’s one-woman show brought her to the attention of director Steven Spielberg in 1983. Since then, she has starred in many films including The Color Purple and Ghost, and has won Oscar, Tony, Grammy and Emmy awards
Happy Birthday James Stewart (1908-1997)
“Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.”
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.”
- John (Fire) Lame Deer, Sioux Lakota, 1903-1976.
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“Do you know, you haven’t looked at me since I came in.”
“I know what you look like, Freddie.”
Anna Pavlova as The Dying Swan (1910)
While touring in The Hague, Netherlands, Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation. She was also told that she would never be able to dance again if she went ahead with it. She refused to have the surgery, saying “If I can’t dance then I’d rather be dead.” She died of pleurisy, three weeks short of her 50th birthday. She was holding her costume from The Dying Swan when she spoke her last words, “Play the last measure very softly.”
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In 1912 Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera, to covertly photograph suffragettes. The pictures were compiled into ID sheets for officers on the ground.
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The Canon AE-1 is a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera for use with interchangeable lenses. It was manufactured by Canon Camera K. K. (today Canon Incorporated) in Japan from 1976 to 1984. The AE-1 sold five million units, an unprecedented success in the SLR market.
Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock 9 being followed by an angry white mob of students as she is one of the first black students at the school.
Hazel Massery (born Bryan,) the one with her mouth open, was never able to escape her participation in this photo, even after many apologies.
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
- Albert Einstein
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
- Andy Warhol
“If I had my career over again? Maybe I’d say to myself, speed it up a little. “
- James Stewart
These two photographs of Joan Crawford, demonstrate George Hurrell’s retouching talents, today airbrushing and digitally enhancing photographs is a matter of pressing buttons but in the early days, it was a painstaking process, done by hand and often took hours.
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Posting everything from the 1900s to the 1990s.
