She’s the new Queen on the block.
That’s Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan while on a friendship visit to Japan today.
I wonder what Jetsun will eat.
Jun Sato
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The fabulous China Land restaurant at 28 Tennessee Avenue in Atlantic City. Nice floor! And below as it appears today, the New Malaka restaurant.
Try the Kari Mee, Char Kway Teow, Roti Canai, and tell ‘em Chexy sent ya.
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It’s Saturday… let’s watch a Disney cartoon! 1935.
This is lovingly inappropriate, so I had to share it.
Chexydecimal… always something for everyone. Are you nervous?
Hampton Hawes, one of the best jazz pianists ever. In memory of my beloved friend Mary, who was Hampton’s friend. Happy Birthday, wherever you are.
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Let’s start it off with a nice pie fight.
The tab was a miracle. And so sturdy too.
The great Ruth Etting… torch.
Fire Falls with Huell Howser.
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Real Housewife of New Jersey Danielle Staub, 49, at the opening of the Mona Lisa Cosmetic Surgery Center in Wayne, New Jersey, and “Cavity Sam” of the “Operation” board game.
One of them has undergone multiple procedures with questionable results.
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Drag Race superstar Carmen Carrera serves up the fish in the November issue of W magazine for La Femme.
Shot by Steven Miesel and styled by Edward Enninful… oh Miss Honey!
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Look at that adorable face! It’s Speedy Alka-Seltzer, created by ad whiz George Pal, earlier known for creating the Puppetoons.
Speedy first appeared in 1951, under his original name of “Sparky,” but they changed it quickly to coincide with a promotional theme of “Speedy Relief.”
The endearingly bucktoothed and squeaky pitchman appeared in over 200 TV commercials from 1954 to 1964, singing the Alka-Seltzer theme “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz,” in a voice provided by actor Dick Beals, whose credits include voicing the annoying Lutheran tot Davey Hansen in the “Davey and Goliath” stop-motion series.
If you didn’t have indigestion before seeing this early commercial, you will after.
Speedy took the world by fizz, appearing on TV and on merchandise and in print ads, including this one, with a Santa who looks like he summered in the Bahamas.
Many will agree that relief is just a swallow away. And who doesn’t like a nice big clock? I said CLOCK.
Note his Spanish name on the clock, “Pron-Tito”!
Speedy later teamed with previous Friday Facer Buster Keaton for a series of ads, capitalizing on the resurgence of interest in silent films in the early ’60s. Here are a few.
Speedy’s popularity waned as Alka-Seltzer launched other highly successful campaigns in the 1960s and ’70s, including the spicy meatball ad, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing,” and the “Try it, you’ll like it” ads. And who can forget the plop plop theme sung by Sammy Davis Jr.?
In December 2010, Speedy was brought back from the advertising beyond via CGI, now voiced by a woman named Debi Derryberry, also the voice of Jimmy Neutron.
A window display of Speedy appeared on “Antiques Roadshow” in 2004.
Estimated value: $4,000-$5,000! Instant relief: priceless!
That’s why Speedy Alka-Seltzer is today’s Friday Face.
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Miss Burbank of 1948, Debbie Reynolds popped up last night at the Prevention Magazine TV Awards something or other last night at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.
Recent auctions of Debbie’s Hollywood memorabilia collection fetched millions of dollars for the star; Marilyn Monroe’s “Subway Dress” alone went for $4.6 million.
Debbie lives next door to her recently trimmed daughter, Carrie Fisher, seen below at the Creative Arts Emmys on September 10th.
Don’t they look great?
Debbie’s voice is currently heard on the Tropicana Orange Juice commercials.
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Betty Joan Perske was born on this day in 1924. She took her mother’s maiden name and became Lauren Bacall, today’s Friday Face.
As the legend goes, she was a fashion model, and was spotted on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar by Nancy Hawks, wife of director Howard Hawks. Nancy urged him to give her a screen test for “To Have and Have Not.” She got the part, and won Humphrey Bogart’s heart as well. She was 19.
At 20, while visiting the National Press Club in DC, the head of WB publicity asked her to sit on a piano, which was being played by then VP Harry Truman. The controversial photo went the equivalent of “viral” in 1945.
She married Bogie that year; he was 45. They would have 2 children and 12 years together, until his death of esophageal cancer.
Bacall made a few films in the 1950s, including a role as a pseudo-lesbian wackjob in “Young Man with a Horn,” the first big budget film about jazz, loosely based on the life of Bix Beiderbecke.
Her big ’50s success came with “How to Marry a Millionaire,” opposite Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.
Nice outfit on Grable.
Frank Sinatra wanted to marry Bacall in the late ’50s, but the two had a falling out and he dumped her.
In the ’60s she headed for Broadway and picked up two Tonys for “Applause” and “Woman of the Year.”
She married Jason Robards in 1961, and said in her autobiography that she divorced him in 1969 because he was a drunk. Their son is an actor (he bought a used car from my Aunt Lorraine’s friend in New Jersey).
In 1981 she played the object of obsession of a crazed admirer in “The Fan,” which presaged stalkers. This was 8 years before actress Rebecca Schaeffer would be gunned down in the doorway of her apartment by a sicko fan.
Bacall received her first Oscar nomination in 1997 for her supporting role in “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” for which she nabbed a Golden Globe, but Oscar went to Juliet Binoche for “The English Patient.”
In the ’90s she picked up a Kennedy Center Honor… and became the voice of Fancy Feast cat food and its “gourmet taste.”
In the new century, she made “Dogville” and “Birth,” both with Nicole Kidman, and appeared as herself in an episode of “The Sopranos.”
In a 2005 appearance on “Larry King Live,” Bacall described herself as “anti-Republican… a liberal. The L word,” adding that “being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you’re a liberal. You do not have a small mind.”
Seen above with her three children, Bacall was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2009… and became the voice of the “Tuesday Morning” discount chain commercials.
Happy 87th Birthday, Lauren Bacall, today’s Friday Face.
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