If you’re going to wear a turban, why not throw on a pearl necklace? Why not a dozen?
That’s Rudolph Valentino as he appeared in “The Young Rajah” in 1922. Valentino died August 23, 1926 at age 31, of complications following the removal of his appendix.
One hundred thousand people lined the streets near New York’s Frank Campbell Funeral Home, where 43 years later, 20,000 would line the streets for the funeral of Judy Garland.
Valentino’s Beverly Hills estate, Falcon Lair, was owned by tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who died there.
What Snooki has done for Italian-Americans, a new cast in a show called “Shahs of Sunset” or “Persian Version” will do for Iranian-Americans, thanks to the lucid mind of Ryan Seacrest, who will produce the new show. I smell a hit, and I do mean smell.
Focusing on some of the half-million Persians who fled the Iranian Revolution, 6,000 of whom live in the Beverly Hills environs, we’ll get a glimpse into the fast cars, hookah smoking and otherwise delightful lifestyle of their young generation of Persian Palace dwellers.
Houses like that McMansion have sprung up all over Beverly Hills and adjacent neighborhoods. If you’ve always longed to know what goes on inside them, your daily prayers have been answered.
Robert F. Kennedy on the cover of TIME on May 24, 1968, as painted by Roy Lichtenstein. Kennedy was shot and killed 12 days later at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, now a school named for him.
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
The interior of The Chief Diner on Main Ave. in Durango, Colorado (makes a fine desktop background) and below, the exterior as it appeared in the 1950s…
And below, as the location appears today… a Subway.
“Try the new Chicken Cordon Bleu. It’s back because you love it.”
UPDATE: Chexydecimal reader Ron from Durango says the Subway is not where the Chief Diner was… it was across the street (they changed the even/odd numbers?), and the diner was demolished to make way for “Light Art of Durango,” a lighting store…
Not a bright idea.
Thanks, Ron! And thanks to Kim of Light Art of Durango!
That’s Michael Jackson’s tomb at the end of the “Ascension Corridor” in the Great Mausoleum’s Holly Terrace (below in pink) at Forest Lawn in restful Glendale, California.
Elizabeth Taylor was quite enamored with the place when she attended MJ’s funeral and talked of having her own earthly remains kept there as well.
A compliance auditor for L.A. County died in her cubicle on Friday, but wasn’t found until Saturday afternoon, when a security guard noticed her slumped over a desk. Accounting work is very taxing… check your stubs.
Rebecca Wells, 51, worked for the County’s Department of Internal Services. Her exact time of death is unclear, but detectives say that she may have been dead a day before her body was discovered in her cubicle. Pity the fool who gets that cube next!
The last time a co-worker saw her alive was Friday morning around 9:00 a.m., but no one reported seeing her “napping.”
Cause of death is unknown, and foul play is not suspected, but accounting is well-known for being deadly dull.
