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Dionne Warwick and cutie actor Lee Mead as they appeared Thursday at a presser to launch World Hunger Day at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London. On World Hunger Day, January 9th 2011, Dionne will warble at a benefit concert for the Hunger Project, a global charity in 13 countries working toward the sustainable end of world hunger.
Nice.
Here’s Dionne in 2004.
Ian Gavan/Getty Images for World Hunger Day
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Do you know who that is? Click here when you give up.
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Venus Williams returns a shot to some Canadian at the US Open in NY.
This has been Chexy’s Sports Roundup, I Would Not Want to Be on the Other Side of That edition.
Stan Honda/AFP/Getty
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Let’s kick it off with some HOT HOT HOT Jackie Wilson! Watch for the jump split!
Betty White love. Watch for the special visitor.
Harrisburg’s own Nancy Kulp, TV’s first lesbian (I think), would have been 89 today. She died of cancer in 1991.
Big finish! Here’s a nearly 60-year-old Ann Miller with a colossal hairdo, a dancing Della Reese, the lovelorn Ethel Merman and that surprise guest again! Can you name the cameos? LOVE BOAT!
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When an octogenarian sex expert tells you that the internets are bad for keepin’ it real, perhaps we should prick up our ears, or prick up something.
In an interview with AP to discuss her upcoming documentary project on minority groups in Israel, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 82, cautioned that social networking and other online tools are replacing real intimacy. Real intimacy? Memba that?
“It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together,” said the tiny sex doc. “I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem … I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.” Like, awesome, I know, right?
Dr. Ruth added that it was all part of a trend of “more openness but less intimacy.”
Text me.
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The fabulously glamorous Shelley Winters would have been 89 today — she died in 2006 at age 85.
Just a few hours before her death, actress Sally Kirkland (1987 Oscar nominee for “Anna”) officiated in a ceremony in which Winters wed longtime companion Gerry DeFord — Shelley had lived with him for nearly 20 years. Kirkland is a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, and administered last rites to the dying star.
I once saw Shelley at the Silver Spoon in West Hollywood, where she sometimes had breakfast.
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Here’s a corny YouTube tribute that I like.
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Let’s kick it off with some Dinah Washington…
The Ziegfeld era… when pageantry was king… as interpreted by Valerie Perrine. And when you leave, take those balloons with you!
One of my favorite poets, Arthur Rimbaud, who “invented the color of vowels,” is remembered in this mini-docu with some gorgeous images.
Eighties flashback! The Specials!
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Oh man, I just love Shirley Bassey, here she is in 2007, age 70.
Billie Burke was born on this day in 1885. Here she is in “Dinner at Eight.”
I’ve been waiting for someone to post some Libby Holman video on YouTube, but I just learned that Libby Holman never allowed herself to be filmed. Her Reynolds tobacco heir husband died of a bullet in the head; his family asked that charges against Holman be dropped. Their only son, Christopher, fell off a mountain to his death in 1950. Holman was one of the best torch singers of the era. Here she is with “Moanin’ Low.”
Sid Caesar (88 next month) and Nanette Fabray (90 in October) — live TV, baby.
Bonus! Bitter:Sweet with “The Mating Game.”
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Pittsburgh’s favorite son, Andy Warhol, was born on this day in 1928. When Andy died following gall bladder surgery in 1987, he left a 30-room townhouse stuffed to the rafters with his collections, including his 150 (or so) cookie jars. It took ten days to sell the estate at auction — yielding $30 million.
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Joan Crawford sings! From 1931′s “Possessed.” Be sure you haven’t eaten.
Nixon fucks up.
Edison knew that idiotic kitty cat footage was money.
The brilliant Martin Short.
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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"
