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John F. Kennedy: “Hatless Jack”
John F. Kennedy loved to eat at Howard Johnson restaurants: Whenever he saw one on the campaign trail, we’d have to stop so he could duck in, order two hot dogs and a soft drink,” said photographer...
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Obama Avoids a Dukakis Moment
Tulsa Girl Scouts were able to convince President Obama to break one of his cardinal rules and wear something on his head for a group shot: a tiara. Last April, the Navy football team tried to get the...
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Princess Vicky Gives Birth to Wilhelm II
Me 1988 I wasn’t thrilled when I learned I had to have a Caesarean section, especially in view of the fact that my doctor had not discovered my baby was breeched until I was already dilated nine...
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Mandy Denson Rocks Bob Mackie
Everyone talks to her hairdresser and I am no different. Jessica James is an awesome hair stylist and a terrific conversationalist. We talk about everything. I don’t know what it is about sitting in a...
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Gene Tierney’s Fragile Life
On Sunday, December 7, 1941, actress Gene Tierney, age 21, and film star Henry Fonda were filming “Rings on Her Fingers” on Catalina Island, 22 miles off the southern California coast. The cameras were...
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Renoir: The Luncheon of the Boating Party
Many of you will recognize this impressionist masterpiece. Technically, this is a great painting. Forget that. Get inside this dreamy scene. It’s a breezy Sunday afternoon. After rowing down the Seine...
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Veronica Lake: The Peekaboo Girl
Constance Keane, 19, was sure she had blown her Paramount screen test. It was August of 1941 and the film was “I Wanted Wings.” Keane auditioned to portray a nightclub singer: “We did a scene in which...
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Ladies and Gentleman…The Beatles!
My husband Tom and I just returned from touring “Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!” (June 13, 2015 – January 10, 2016) at the LBJ Presidential Library here in Austin, Texas. This fantastic traveling...
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I’m So Happy I Didn’t Sneeze!”
What would the American Civil Rights Movement been without the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? On September 20, 1958, we almost found out. ❧ The weather boded well for a good turnout. It was...
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LBJ: The Amphicar
When she was First Lady of the United States (1963-69), Lady Bird Johnson felt that she was often in a moving vehicle. In her diary, she wrote: LBJ Ranch [Stonewall, Texas] Saturday, April 10, 1965 “We...
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Roald Dahl: The Joy of Chocolate
British children’s writer Roald Dahl ate chocolates and sweets “pretty much every mealtime,” remembers daughter Ophelia Dahl: “He…was fascinated by the cross section of the Mars bar – the layers of...
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Bob Mackie & Wackie Tackie Dressers
Excerpt from interview by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete with American fashion designer, Bob Mackie. “Bob Mackie Has Dressed Almost Everyone,” March 7, 2013. VICE online. The television shows you designed...
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