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Chexydecimal reader David B. in Palm Springs sent this gorgeous something or other. No, it’s not my own personalized IHOP, but it could be.
Denise M. of glamorous Studio City sends this chexadelic thing, the birdhouse of my dreams?
This isn’t my living room, but it’s close. It’s the California Science Center, through the lens of Austin S.
Send your chex pix to me on Facebook.
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From filmmaker Sean Ohlenkamp, this magical short film.
ty Tom Nash
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Today marks what would have been the 99th birthday of Loretta Young, who began her career in silent films in 1917 at the age of 3, winning an Oscar in 1947 for “Farmer’s Daughter,” and making a highly successful transition to TV with an 8-year run of “The Loretta Young Show.”
Young had a child with the then-married Clark Gable in 1935. She hid the birth and later “adopted” the child, naming her Judy Lewis.
Loretta Young was a lifelong Republican and very active in the church, earning her the nicknames “Attila the Nun” and “Saint Loretta.” She married three times, with one annulment and one divorce.
In 1993, she married 83-year-old fashion designer Jean Louis, who died four years later. (Louis designed the gown Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President,” which sold at auction in 1999 for $1.26 million.)
In 1973, her son Christopher Lewis, then 29, was charged with child molestation and filming and distributing child porn. He plead “no contest” and faced life in prison, but got probation and a $500 fine. Another son, Peter Lewis, was in the rock group Moby Grape.
Her daughter with Gable (below) died late last year.
Loretta Young died of ovarian cancer in 2000.
You can visit her remains at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. Loretta Young is today’s Friday Face.
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Betty Deuce, as delicate as a little green elf, meets various members of the media at Buckingham Palace, regarding next year’s Diamond Jubilee, marking Betty’s 60th year on the throne.
That little bauble Betty is wearing is Queen Mary’s Emerald Brooch, a cabochon emerald surrounded by two rows of diamonds, with an emerald drop. The brooch was made from a larger piece called a “stomacher,” owned by the mother of Queen Mary, the Duchess of Teck. Styles changed and stomachers were not longer worn, so many of them were made into smaller pieces such as this one.
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Lady Gaga as spotted in London today… and below, a wallpaper sample I got at the Modernism Show in San Francisco.
One requires professionals to create a complete look.
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Chexydecimal Studio City Bureau Chief Andy (also former London Bureau Chief) spotted the catastrophic lamp (I think it’s a lamp) at the Pasadena City College Flea Market this morning. It might have been owned by Andy’s favorite drag queen, Isolde Thandirt. But I doubt it.
If you’re going for the Retrocious look, this mess is for you.
The shade is a lullaby of something someone once thought was a good idea. Imagine it lit. Just don’t eat first.
The base, which I suppose could be said has a sub-Saharan feel to it, includes plenty of nooks and crannies for dust to gather, or for adding smaller decorative items.
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Lindsay Lohan as she appeared in court today, where she was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating terms of her parole, and the Fit Bitty Baby doll.
One has the mental capacity of a doll.
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How now brown couch?
Better with a Jackie poster by Andy Warhol… as seen at CB2, on sale for $149.
for Gina
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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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