A really disturbing clip from 1977′s variety show, “The Brady Bunch Hour.” Yes, that’s Robert Reed in a dress, but I prefer what Florence Henderson is wearing.
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March 2010
From 1934′s “Kid Millions,” here’s one of the earliest Technicolor sequences, starring Ethel Merman and Eddie Cantor. “Get me 16 pigtailed milkmaids!”
Here’s some more early color process, Dufaycolor. From “Radio Parade of 1935″ — here’s American blues singer Alberta Hunter. This really gets good when the drum sequence starts!
More Technicolor fun, from 1950, a film by Chevy. “Miamah!”
Arrrrgh! Pirates! Can’t get enough Technicolor! From MGM in 1935, the Fanchonettes.
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Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, resident reality TV douche, and 1930′s era superstar Marlene Dietrich.
The eyebrows are a situation.
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Someone must have told Candice Bergen that she was auditioning for the part of Yum-Yum in The Mikado. This is how she looked at the “Come Fly Away” premiere last night.
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Nancy Sinatra, who will be 70 in June, as she appeared last night at the Broadway opening of “Come Fly Away,” featuring the music of her father, Frank Sinatra.
No, she is not startled. (click pic for a better look)
Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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Fighter Jack Dempsey owned a number of restaurants in Manhattan. Here’s another great shot of Dempsey’s during a strike of some kind.
There was an earlier incarnation of the restaurant seen below, near the old Madison Square Garden.
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Go on, make two wishes. Aretha is 68 today.
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Teenage hairdresser dies in explosion after cigarette ignites hair bleach left in her car
A teenage hairdresser was killed after her cigarette ignited fumes from a leaking bottle of hydrogen peroxide on the passenger side footwell. I hate when that happens.
Jenny Mitchell’s Mini Cooper was engulfed in flames after the explosion.
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Robert Culp, 79, fell and hit his head yesterday and died. Kind of a crummy way to die, but not uncommon.
In 1981, William Holden fell and hit his head on a nightstand and bled to death while in a vodka stupor. He was 63.
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During the heyday of radio, the NBC Studios at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood was the center of the universe. Today, it’s a Chase bank.
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