Betrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, logician and pacifist (among other things), was born on this day in 1872, so he’s today’s Friday Face.

And just before his death in 1970, he filmed a message for you…

“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

Everyone wonders what Betty keeps in her handbag… and it’s no secret.

Her Launer handbag contains reading glasses, mints, a fountain pen and a small mirror and lipstick, and a hankie… and she does look minty fresh today in that Crest toothpaste color!

This was Betty today at Slaters Terrace Wharf, Burnley, where she rode a barge down the canal as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebration. Can you spot her in the above photo?! That’s Phil in the flasher’s raincoat.

Lindsay Lohan appeared with a freshly inflated face last night at some nonsense in NYC… looking more like reptilian ’50s actress Lizabeth Scott than Elizabeth Taylor.

Scott, who will be 90 this year, appeared in 2010 at a screening of “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.” Lohan will be 62 in in July.

Both never married.

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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I don’t often write about personal things, but today it seems appropriate.

I worked for Maurice Sendak from 1995 until 1998, out of an office in his darkly magical home in Connecticut, filled with Mickey Mouse memorabilia, Blake originals, frayed carpets and such obscure ephemera as the walking stick of Beatrix Potter. I lived in the nearby town of West Redding, where he visited me once to see my checkerboard collection.

I am not going to write a paean simply because he has died. Dying does not make you great. He was, by his own admission, not a great man, but he was the most extraordinarily talented and disciplined man I have ever met.

As his assistant, speech editor, occasional chef and babysitter, I got to know him very well. One thing he taught me, indirectly, was discipline about work. He worked every day, and pretty much did the same thing every day of his life. He had a wicked wit and a way of assessing people as objects, saying things like, “That woman reminds me of a great potato.”

At the time I began working for him, the film “Wild Things” was just getting off the ground. It would take another dozen years to bring it to the screen. Among many other projects, we were working on the merchandising of the Wild Things characters, for which he had approval of all things. “The hair is too orange, the whiskers too long.” Everything took forever. He was also working with Tony Kushner on a project about the holocaust, on the sets for the opera “Hansel and Gretel,” illustrating the complete works of Shakespeare, designing a play area and restaurant for the Yerba Buena “Metreon” Center in San Francisco, and the cartoon series, “Little Bear.” President Clinton gave him the Medal of Arts in the snowy winter of 1996, for which I made all arrangements, not including an inadvertent trip to Newark when, while trying to get him settled, the train left with me still on it, my first and only experience as a stowaway.

He was a curmudgeonly figure, cranky and curious, and lived rather unhappily with a terribly unpleasant maid and her grungy husband (who lived on his property). His partner of 40 years, Dr. Eugene Glynn, would visit on weekends. I could never tell if this pleased or annoyed Maurice.

During the Japanese recession of ’97, the entire Sony Retail Entertainment Division (my employers who assigned me to him) would be axed. Even the chairman was canned. I returned to California.

Maurice had the extraordinary ability to recall everything about his childhood in vivid detail. He kept a small box on his dresser that contained the wedding rings of his late parents. On top of the box was a blue and white ceramic dog. I asked him about it on my first tour of his home. “There were about five of those dogs when I was little, that’s the only one left. He guards the rings.” About a year into my job, I was shopping at an antiques store in Greenwich, and found a similar dog from the set. I gave it to him for his birthday.

He wept like a child.

The utterly stunning Lana Turner, rocking the turban in 1946′s “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”

Chexy always posts Lana Turner twice.

The “Postman” costume was designed by Irene, who in 1962 slit her wrists (although that’s disputed) and jumped from the 14th floor of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood (not disputed). She was reportedly distraught over the death of her true love, Gary Cooper, in 1961.

In 1948, legendary film director D.W. Griffith dropped dead in the hotel lobby of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73.

On March 3, 1966, William Frawley (best known as Fred Mertz) collapsed a half block away and was carried to the Knickerbocker lobby where they were unable to revive him.

He was 79.

Gay American poet Frank O’Hara wrote this lovely poem about Lana Turner.

O’Hara, 40, was killed when a dune buggy ran over him on Fire Island, July 24, 1966.

Audrey Hepburn was born on this day in 1929, making her today’s Friday Face.

Born in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem during WWII.

She studied ballet after the war, and moved to London in 1948, where she was a chorus girl in various West End productions.

She appeared in a few British films and starred in the play “Gigi.” She burst onto the film scene as a wayward princess opposite Gregory Peck in “Roman Holiday.”

She went on to star as “Sabrina” with Humphrey Bogart, as a disenchanted sister in “The Nun’s Story” and as the bubbly Holly Golightly in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”  She played opposite Cary Grant in “Charade,” in the behemoth “My Fair Lady,” and the edgy “Wait Until Dark.”

She numbers among the 11 people who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and a Tony.

Audrey dedicated much of her later life to UNICEF, working in Africa, South America and Asia in the 1980s and ’90s.

In 1992, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work as Goodwill Ambassador.

Audrey died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland in 1993. She was just 63.

For her grace, beauty, talent and generosity, Audrey Hepburn is today’s Friday Face.

Forty-five years ago today, Elvis Presley wed Priscilla Ann Wagner, who was just 20, Elvis was 32.

Let’s take a moment to catch up with Priscilla, shall we?

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Today’s Friday Face is singer Johnnie Ray, born in Oregon in 1927 and died of liver failure at Cedars-Sinai in 1990. Johnnie liked to drink. He had his first hit in 1951 with the appropriately titled “Whiskey and Gin.”

He was arrested twice for soliciting men for sex. Imagine that. The below article from L.A. Times, 1959.

He was found not guilty. Journalist and friend Dorothy Kilgallen supported Ray during the ordeal.

In 1952, he gained international fame with his hit “Cry,” and the flip side, “The Little White Cloud That Cried.” He unleashed a torrent of emotion in his singing, the likes of which had never been heard. Some say he made it possible for singers like Elvis Presley to break through.

His father was a fiddler and his mother a pianist. He lost his hearing in one ear after an accident, and then became nearly deaf after a surgery in 1958.

Check out the creepy flasher choreography in this clip.

Ray performed as Judy Garland’s opening act in 1969, at her last concerts in Denmark and Sweden. Here he is in a clip new to YouTube, with Patti Page on the short-lived 1958 TV show, “The Big Record.”

Cry for Johnnie Ray, today’s Friday Face.

Her Majesty, Betty Deuce, as seen in Wales today as part of her Jubilee celebration, and the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

One has a staff of 244.

As the Queen has more than one residence, the staff are spread out across Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral. Some staff would travel with her, whereas some would be static. The list below shows the number of staff resident at all the Royal palaces.

(i) Private Secretaries and Officials in the Queen’s Household: 33
(ii) Private Secretaries and Officials in other Households: 6
(iii) Domestic staff in the Queen’s Household: 29
(iv) Domestic Staff in other Households: 11
(v) Stables staff looking after the Civil List carriages and carriage horses: 19
(vi) The Queen’s private staff and staff who work on the Royal Farms at Windsor: 9
(vii) Chauffeurs in the Queen’s Household: 4
(viii) Chauffeurs in other Households: 4
(ix) Staff in the Queen’s Household responsible for the maintenance of the Occupied Palaces Estate (including the Director of Property Services): 18
(x) Gardeners in the Queen’s Household: 4
(xi) Gatekeepers and security staff: 6
(xii) Firepatrolmen in the Queen’s Household: 4
(xiii) Craftsmen and porters in the Queen’s Household: 19
(xiv) Royal Collection staff: 4
(xv) Crown Estate gardeners: 2
(xvi) Military Knights at Windsor Castle (Pensioners): 13
(xvii) Pensioners: 43
(xviii) Commercial: 16

Total: 244

Sydney Opera House employs 175 people.