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Little Lulu, we love you.
“Louise as the winsome French girl in Now We’re in the Air (1927).” (Photo and caption from “Lulu Forever”) I think the first time I can recall hearing the name “Louise Brooks” was…
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So maybe Indians are kinda, sorta Black?
Bonda girl in Orissa. Image by: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Flickr/Otabi kitahachi (via HuffPo) Well, at least some Indians are… a few weeks ago, I confessed up to thinking as a kid that Indians…
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Flashback Friday: The Black Actress Who Launched her career in “The Birth of a Nation”.
(Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Image Source: BlackPast.org) And no, I absolutely do NOT mean last year’s controversial Nate Parker flick, “The Birth of a Nation”. I’m talking the D.W. Griffith, 1915 film that celebrates the…
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The Preachers: Rev. Jim Jones and the horror in Guyana.
(Image and Caption from “The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones & The Peoples Temple”) I just finished “The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones & The Peoples Temple” by Jeff Guinn and, really,…
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Lent- Day 13: Stay Weird.
Yup, we’re weird. Maybe even Carrie just before getting that bucket of pig’s blood dumped on her-type weird. Or maybe the after. Most definitely after if you’re Pentecostal. (Sissy Spacek in “Carrie”.…
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Lent- Day 5: Scandalous.
Mary Astor. Image via Public Domain. “Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.” – Ecclesiastes 7:7 My, my, my, Ms. Astor, your dirty diary is…
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Some Sunday Stuff: January 4th.
Happy New Year, Dear Readers. I hope your holidays were full of good food, laughter and love. After tweeting a link to my last post with a mention of “Boardwalk Empire”…
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Some Saturday Stuff: December 13th.
Norma Shearer (Source) Hello, All. I feel like the last couple of weeks have been a blur. My dad is still in the hospital with pneumonia, but it looks…
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Water, ice and crumbling pearls.
(Screenshot, “Boss”) “I wonder what it’s like to take the shape of the space you’re in?” -Tom Kane, “Boss” That scene, pictured above, from the defunct Starz drama,…
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The fault in my stars.
I’ve never been into astrology. Not just because I was raised that in fell into the category of the “occult” and was not to be dabbled in, but because it made…
