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Happy 78th birthday, Elizabeth Taylor! Here’s the great Dame on “What’s My Line?” in 1954.
“Wheel in Miss Clark, please!” Petula, with “It’s a Sign of the Times,” circa 1968.
Miss Lauryn Hill, live in Tokyo in 1999, with “Sweetest Thing.”
Here’s Parkthoven playing Cosma’s “Sentimental Walk” from the movie “Diva.”
For former Chexydecimal London Bureau Chief Andy. Welcome home!
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, gets the stank eye from a kid at Melcombe Primary School during a charity event in Hammersmith.
You can see how thrilled the other children are to see her.
Arthur Edwards/WPA Pool/Getty Images
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Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe at last night’s NAACP Image Awards, and Barney the Dinosaur.
So alike, and yet only one loves me.
Getty
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“I’m sick of being in this fuckin’ bathtub,” said the killer whale who killed his trainer yesterday. “How many of you jackasses do I have to drown before you let me back in the ocean?”
Never one to miss a scoop, King asked, “Is this a hat?”
Getty Images
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in animals,chaos,obesity,old peopleAt the end of the day, please stop saying “at the end of the day.” Thank you.
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Khloe Kardashian as she appeared at a Three-O Vodka launch at Quo Nightclub in NYC last night, and Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster.
So alike, and yet only one is a real monster.
Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
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Miss Whitney Houston gets caught up in her weave during a concert in Sydney.
Critics panned her opening night, and fans walked out during her 50-minute gospel segment.
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“I really like that “Keep Young and Beautiful” song, my dear.”
“Do you think I can get MY hair to look like that?”
Betty Deuce met Annie Lennox at a Buckingham Palace reception in preparation for the visit of the South African president. That’s Business Secretary Lord Mandelson in the back.
Here’s the 1933 original with Eddy Cantor. See if you can spot the young Lucille Ball in the first closeup.
Dominic Lipinski/WPA Pool/Getty Images
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American artist Winslow Homer was born on this day in 1836. Here’s his “Dressing for the Carnival” painted in 1877. (click for a larger view)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Princess Letizia of Spain (can you pick her out?) greets members of Teodora Foundation at Zarzuela Palace in Madrid.
Nice pants on that guy on the left!
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"These are simple people. The common clay. The salt of the earth. You know... morons."
--Gene Wilder as "The Waco Kid" in Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles"
