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Happy Birthday James Thurber
Today is James Thurber’s 120th birthday. It is no secret that his book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of my very favorites and it’s been made into a film. I should reread it. I identify with...
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Happy Birthday Jackson Pollock
Today is the 103rd birthday of Jackson Pollock. Some of his art pushes some people’s definitions of art because they do not see it as a representation of anything they recognize. Fortunately, the...
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Happy 83rd Birthday Sylvia Plath
Today is the 83rd birthday of Sylvia Plath. I have a handful of favorite poems that became my favorites because they perfectly encapsulated a feeling I was experiencing at the time in my life when I...
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Woman of the Year – Required Viewing
The Wiki: Woman of the Year (1942) is a romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The movie is about an emancipated woman, chosen “Woman of the Year”, and her...
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Happy 55th Birthday John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
Today is JFK Jr’s 55th birthday. His father, the then President of The United States of America was assassinated a few days before his third birthday. That is not an easy start for anyone, but being...
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Happy 121st Birthday James Thurber
Today is James Thurber’s 121st birthday. It is no secret that his book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of my very favorites and it’s been made into a film. I should reread it. I identify with...
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Happy 97th Birthday Andy Rooney
Today is the 97th birthday of Andy Rooney. He was America’s questioning, mockingly grumpy grandfather. His work in journalism and television have influenced generations and continues to be the...
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Happy 105th Birthday Danny Kaye
Today is the 105th birthday of the actor Danny Kaye. You for sure have seen him in White Christmas and hopefully in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. He had great comedic timing and was an overall...
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Happy 104th Birthday Jackson Pollock
Today is the 104th birthday of Jackson Pollock. Some of his art pushes some people’s definitions of art because they do not see it as a representation of anything they recognize. Fortunately, the...
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Happy 85th Birthday Anne Bancroft
Today is the 85th birthday of Anne Bancroft. Her list of performances is impressively long and impressively impressive. Her performance in Great Expectations stole the movie. I watched it in the...
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Happy 84th Birthday Sylvia Plath
Today is the 84th birthday of Sylvia Plath. I have a handful of favorite poems that became my favorites because they perfectly encapsulated a feeling I was experiencing at the time in my life when I...
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Happy 99th Birthday Edith Bouvier Beale
Today is the 99th birthday of an original, often imitated, never duplicated, the one and only Edith Bouvier Beale. By now, everyone has seen the documentary, the musical, the movie, everyone knows her...
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Happy 107th Birthday Kay Thompson
Today is the 107th birthday of Kay Thompson. I mean, have you seen that “Swing Them Bells” scene in Funny Face? It is everything. Or that other other “Think Pink” scene? She is channeling her best...
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Happy 56th Birthday John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
Today is JFK Jr’s 56th birthday. His father, the then President of The United States of America was assassinated a few days before his third birthday. That is not an easy start for anyone, but being...
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Happy 52nd Birthday David Rakoff
Today is David Rakoff‘s 52nd birthday. He is quite possibly the wittiest writer we have seen this century. The 2oth century had Dorothy Parker and the 21st had David Rakoff. He has also had the...
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Happy 122nd Birthday James Thurber
Today is James Thurber’s 122nd birthday. It is no secret that his book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of my very favorites and it’s been made into a film. I should reread it. I identify with...
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Happy 98th Birthday Andy Rooney
Today is the 98th birthday of Andy Rooney. He was America’s questioning, mockingly grumpy grandfather. His work in journalism and television have influenced generations and continues to be the...
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Happy 109th Birthday Ethel Merman
Today is the 109th birthday of Ethel Merman. I first learned of her when she was on The Muppet Show, it is strange to say that, but the show got so many amazing people and I was at the age. Even...
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Happy 106th Birthday Danny Kaye
Today is the 106th birthday of the actor Danny Kaye. You for sure have seen him in White Christmas and hopefully in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. He had great comedic timing and was an overall...
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Happy 155th Birthday Edith Wharton
Today is the 155th birthday of the writer who said, “Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.” She wrote about frustrated love in novels like The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan...
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