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The great Josephine Baker, 1927.
Billie Holiday, 1947.
Lena Horne, 1956.
Marian Anderson was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall by the DAR because of her color. Instead, at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, Interior Secy. Harold Ickes permitted Anderson to perform at the Lincoln Memorial. April 9, 1939, a seminal day in the Civil Rights movement.
In memory of Whitney Houston
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That great tugboat of glamour, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, got gussied up as Miss Havisham on a winter’s outing to mark the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens on Tuesday.
Cam stopped by Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner, where she scared the dickens out of the faithful and unfaithful alike.
Camilla, also married to a Charles, said, “How much Chuck would have loved to chuck his other duties, if he could, to be here for this Chuck.”
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Connecticut abstract painter Helen Frankthaler has died at the age of 83.
She leaves a body of work.
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Merry Christmas… in hell!
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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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Betty Deuce wore this beige buttoned number and the exquisite Jardine Star brooch and a rather saucy bonnet for a rainy appearance at the Australian War Memorial on Tuesday.
Her Majesty hasn’t worn the star since May 5, 2010, I think, when she appeared at Norwich Cathedral. It appears to be 30 or forty carats.
Betty loves her baubles.
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In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, today’s Friday Face recognizes some of those brave people who have publicly fought the disease, to honor the survivors, and remember those lost.
Kaye Ballard, Vivian Vance, Lynn Redgrave, Rod Roddy, Nancy Reagan, Betty Davis, Molly Ivins, Hattie McDaniel, Ingrid Bergman, Ann Jillian, Shirley Temple Black, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Kennedy, Judy Holliday, Diahann Carroll, Dusty Springfield, Dame Maggie Smith, Christina Applegate, Roxie Roker, Giuliana Rancic, Robin Roberts, Betty Ford, Shelley Morrison, Sheryl Crow, Kylie Minogue.
Donate to the American Cancer Society here.
In memory of my mother’s best friend, Phyllis Evans.
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"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
--Jimmy Buffett
