Kirk Douglas, 95, as seen last night at the Heart Foundation gala in Hollywood, and George Washington as depicted on Mt. Rushmore.
One is Jewish.
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The magnificent, towering, mostly despised Marilyn sculpture that has been waving its dress in the air over Pioneer Court in Chicago is being dismantled for a trip to California. Most people wait until they get here to get ripped apart.
The 26-ft. work, titled “Forever Marilyn,” was created by Seward Johnson, is now bound for Palm Springs.
The dress Marilyn wore in “The Seven Year Itch,” on which the sculpture is based, sold last June for $4.6 million to an unknown buyer.
It had been in the collection of Debbie Reynolds, who bought it when 20th Century Fox unloaded all of Marilyn’s wardrobe in 1971.
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The Scream sold for nearly $120M.
The Duchess of Alba… priceless.
Gif by Chexy
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My cousin sent me this cool video made from sequenced images from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions.
Remember, you’re a speck in the universe. Especially you.
Outer Space from Sander van den Berg on Vimeo.
ty Steve d.
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It was just another Saturday at the palace for everyone’s favorite frizzed-out, dewy-faced octogenarian, the Duchess of Alba, who received the artist Alberto Romero in the library of the Liria Palace in Madrid. It’s a remarkable likeness!
What’s that? You’d like to see her in a close up? Oh, okay.
I’m not sure, but I think that’s a Hello Kitty watch. Pretty dress!
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Former TV star Brenda Shannen Doherty as she appeared on “Extra” yesterday in Los Angeles, and enigmatic Louvre hanger Mona Lisa.
One will be 41 on Thursday.
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The incredibly pregnant Jessica Simpson (left), as seen last week at a Beverly Hills hotel, and “The Scream” by Edvard Munch.
One’s a scream.
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The Hand-Sculpted iRetrofone Base from artist Scott Freeland, for when you’re expecting Rosalind Russell to call.
This is a fully-functional, stationary iPhone dock with working handset and complete compatibility with USB cable.
What a wonderful world.
What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong from noktasat on Vimeo.
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This magnificent building was located at 16th and Curtis Streets in Denver, built in 1881 for a then unheard of $850,000 ($19 million in today’s dollars) by one Horace A.W. Tabor, who made a fortune in silver mines. Look at this interior!
Cherry wood was imported from Japan and mahogany from Honduras, with 1,500 mohair seats facing a 72-ft. stage that was 50-ft. deep, with a giant painted curtain… seen here in glorious black and white.
The inscription on the curtain prophetically states:
“So fleet the works of man, back to the earth again.
Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.”
Here’s another view of the building…
The Tabor was remodeled in 1921 for movies, and operated for nine years as the Colorado Theater, before once again becoming The Tabor. The great acts of Vaudeville played the stage. It was sold in ’49 for a million dollars. By the ’50s, it was facing the threat of demolition as the population departed for the suburbs.
It was torn down in 1964. Its giant curtain, too large to be displayed anywhere, was stored for years and disintegrated, and was later hauled to a dump. Today, the site is this:
…the Denver branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Things fade like a dream.
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