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fibula-rasa · 4 months

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Favorite New-to-Me Films

January ’24

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(listed in order of collage above, L to R)

Eleven P.M. (1928)

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Synopsis: Sundaisy, a violinist, tries to fulfill a friend’s dying request to ensure his son is raised away from the criminal element of the city. Unfortunately, Sundaisy is duped by a phony priest, and the boy grows into a low-level crime boss. After a series of misfortunes spurred on by the boy over the course of decades, Sundaisy’s family is nearly ruined. However, Sundaisy’s will for vengeance leads to supernatural consequences. All this is couched in a frame story of a man trying to meet an 11 p.m. deadline.

This is easily my favorite first-time viewing of the month. The synopsis above admittedly does not capture the mystical/transcendental attitude that Eleven P.M. reflects. This is the only film Detroit-based Richard Maurice ever directed, but it displays sophisticated ideas about film storytelling, using an array of devices in inventive ways. It’s always a treat to be reminded of how creative and exciting independent filmmaking can be in America. If you want to check this one out, I advise you to keep an open mind and not approach it with an overly literal, nitpicky mindset. Let Richard Maurice take you on this ride and I don’t think you’ll regret it!

I watched this on the Pioneers of African-American Cinema box set, which I can’t recommend highly enough. The films are outstandingly curated and contextualized and the set showcases an often-overlooked but indispensable part of American cultural history. A lot of the films are also available on streaming through kanopy, which you may be able to access with your library card if you live in the US.

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Lea on Rollerskates / Lea sui pattini (1912)

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Synopsis: Lea isn’t allowed by her parents to go rollerskating with a friend, so she decides to skate in her own bedroom. She proceeds to wreak havoc in the home before an accidental self-defenestration sets her free to wreak havoc at the roller rink instead.

A jam-packed, stunt-heavy bit of nonsense led by Lea Giunchi. I’ve watched quite a few of her films now and I’ve learned this is pretty standard for her. I love each and every pratfall.

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Two Girls are in Love with Foolshead / Le due innamorate di Cretinetti (1911)

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Synopsis: Cretinetti is dating two girls at the same time. The girls decide to duel, but Cretinetti is the one who loses… repeatedly.

I’ve finally gotten around to watching more Andre Deed films and this one was a highlight for January. I don’t know who the skinny woman is, but she and Valentina Frascaroli are great together.

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X (2022)

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Synopsis: A crew of filmmakers leave Houston, TX for the country in order to film a farm-themed porn. The producer of course did not disclose the nature of their stay to the elderly property owners. Said owners have ulterior motives in renting their cabin and respond violently to the group.

Appreciative of all of Ti West’s work, and X has so much going on and so much to say that I originally typed out two full pages (single spaced) on it before I knew it. I won’t be sharing those two pages because I think there are a few points on the approach to gore in recent horror movies that I need to mull over more. For now though, I’ll just say, I didn’t enjoy X at all, but I deeply appreciate what Ti West is putting out there. I probably won’t watch it again and I’m going to be sure my stomach is prepared for whenever I get around to Pearl (2022).

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The Hayseed (1919)

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Synopsis: Fatty wants to marry Molly, but so does the sheriff. Buster tries to keep the general store in working order while the sheriff plots against Fatty.

Luke the dog is one of my top 5 movie dogs of all time. I’ve never made an official list, but I know in my heart that Luke is at the top. Also, I adore how many modern professional wrestling moves you end up seeing in Fatty/Buster collaborations! In this instance, note the dance sequence with the lady who gets swung around wildly.

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The Ghost Ship (1943)

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Synopsis: Tom Merriam, a young officer, reports for his first commission on a long haul trip on the Altair. The captain has a bit of a strange vibe, but the newbie likes him, at first. As crewmen perish under the captain’s leadership, and the captain’s lectures take on a more sinister tone, Tom knows he needs to act to save the remaining crew and the ship.

Checked this out as I was on a Val Lewton kick not knowing much about it beforehand. I did not expect it to be a movie about fascism done in microcosm. So, if you were looking for a movie about ghosts or a Flying Dutchman, this ain’t it. Its off-beat structure amped up the tension, though the denouement was a little too pat. Cinematography was fantastic, as you might expect from Nicholas Musuraca. I hope Sir Lancelot got two checks for how much his singing contributes to the movie. Richard Dix is such a skilled actor in everything I’ve seen him in, but he is pitch-perfectly terrifying in this movie.

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Miss Pinkerton (1932)

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Synopsis: A nurse who’s bored with hospital work gets assigned to an old woman who’s ailing after a big shock: finding the dead body of her nephew. The detective on the case asks the nurse to gather reconnaissance for him at the house and she gets all the excitement she can stomach as a result.

Miss Pinkerton is a pre-code gem I somehow have never seen before, despite my devotion to Joan Blondell. The plot and characters are interesting, the cinematography (done by Barney McGill) and staging of the film is very dynamic and Joan Blondell brings so much to Miss Pinkerton with her signature effervescent sass. It’s also just over an hour long, so it would make a great watch for one of those evenings where you’re indecisive but want to find something compelling but compact.

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Phil-for-Short (1919)

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Synopsis: Damophilia “Phil” Illington is a free-spirited tomboy brought up by a Greek-professor father and his right-hand man, Pat. Her lack of lady-like decorum raises the ire of two town elders, who are also the local killjoys. When her father passes away, one of the elders abuses his position of power to force her into a conservatorship. Phil disguises herself as a boy and hightails it with Pat. While on the lam, Phil makes the acquaintance of a young woman-hating Greek professor. Through a set of misadventures, Phil and the Professor end up married, but it takes quite a bit of work after the marriage for them to find happiness with one another.

Great characters and performances and I enjoyed marriage not being treated as the resolution or an end point to the story. It’s also very endearing to see such a pervasively queer story about a man and a woman getting together.

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The Mystic (1925)

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Synopsis: A con artist enlists the help of Hungarian travelling carnival performers to enact a phony medium scheme against the hoi polloi of New York City.

Tod Browning is a sure-bet filmmaker for me and The Mystic was no exception. Highlights for me were: the execution of the seance sequences, Erte’s gorgeous costumes for Aileen Pringle, and an ending that I hoped would happen but assumed wouldn’t!

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There Ain’t No Santa Claus (1926)

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Synopsis: When Christmas rolls around, Charley doesn’t have enough money to both pay the rent and buy his wife a present. He uses his $80 to buy her a watch, instead of the rent, and his nasty landlord/next-door-neighbor steals the watch. Christmas Day turns into a free for all, when both Charley and his landlord dress as Santa and plan to enter via their respective chimneys for their respective children.

Well-paced, great comeuppance, and very well-executed gags. Additionally, Charley Chase looks absolutely outrageous in his Santa wig and he knew it!

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This one didn’t make it into the collage, but it’s still on the list:

Little Moritz Runs Away With Rosalie / Little Moritz enlève Rosalie (1911)

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Synopsis: Little Moritz loves Rosalie and wishes to marry her, but her father objects. So, of course Rosalie and Mortiz run away together in his funky little flivver, but dad and the family dog give chase.

Most of this short is the chase sequence and it’s very well executed. Sarah Duhamel is so cute and so is her family dog. The location shooting is nicely done (was this shot in Nice?) This charming poster captures the vibe of the short perfectly:

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In January we were hit with a nasty winter storm and, while we were relatively lucky in my neighborhood, we were without internet for a third of the month. So, we ended up relying on our home video collection, which accounts for five of the films above and me re-watching two seasons of Soap and Fritz Lang’s Niebelungenlied (1924).

Despite the holdup, I continued my “Lost, but Not Forgotten” series with The Dancer of the Nile (1923) and started a limited spin-off series, “How’d They Do That?” about special effects and stunts in the silent era.

I also made themed gif & still sets for: Miss Pinkerton, Dementia (1955), and A Christmas Carol (1971).

Here’s to a less eventful February! And, as always, if you’re interested in any of these films, but have specific content warning needs, feel free to ask me.

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adamsvanrhijn · 3 years

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multiple people tagged me in this because they want me to suffer i guess! 🥰🥰🥰

RULES: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

i'm not tagging people because that's just simply not happening and you will see why. under a cut because i'm me! and also because nsfw <3 they're in alphabetical order because doing them in order of appearance is a little too revealing. more too revealing than this already is. and yes the first one is a file name it is not a mistake in cut placement

#embarrassing

1895

1907

1911

1912

1912/April

1912/May

1912, July

1912 table manners

1913

1914

1915

1916

1917

1917: Summer

1917 [Sybil]

1918

1918 o'brien

1918 packing to leave

1918 ship

1919

1919 - sybil - everybody here was someone else before

1919 - thomas - searching for a sound we hadn't heard before

1921

1921.09

1922.02 Gwen marries (sybil pov)

1922.07

1922.08 cricket

1923 rose season

1923.12 Park (Richard pov)

1924

1924.04 - baby feeding :-3

1925

1925 - 1926 | 1916-1920

1925, attempt

1926

1927

1928

1928, armistice

1929

1929: Winter

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1936 - outsider pov alternating

1939: Spring

1939: Summer

1940 Autumn

1940: Spring

1940: Summer

1940: Winter

1941: Autumn

1941: Summer

1941: Winter

1942: Autumn

1942: Spring

1942: Summer

1942: Winter

5 firsts

5 times sick

a symptom of your touch

aging

alt pov thomas

and I'll find your lips in the streetlights (I wanna be there with you)

anna vignette

antidepressants

august gift wheeere are u going with this

baxter convo etc

before the war

bend in timeline

better things to do

body worship

bondage

cancer

chapter 11

chapter 4

chapter 6

chapter 8

chapter 9

chauffeur

christmas special 1929

coming of age

complex

Copie de Document sans titre

cricket

cruel summer fanfic?

daisy

dancing

didn't think

Document sans titre

doncaster

downton abbey book club

drive back

drunk sex

eating

edith

ellis crowborough

everyone loving & accepting thomas barrow

eyes emoji

February 1920 contd

February contd

fisting

four hours

free use

free use 2

gay parenting!!

gossip

halloween fic

if it means going to new york to find one

ivy arrival

ivy ny

january 1928 phone call

keep temptations out of reach

last one

LDR struggles

letters

light bondage

loud sex

lube?

making friens

mary/matthew

meltdown time

morning after

most everything from alma on down

move in

my hands and heart were tied

my heartbeat beat through me

new york landing

October 02 [M] [Sex Dreams/Masturbation]

October 04 [?]

October 05 [X] [Boot Worship]

October 12 [M] [Feet]

October 18 [M] [Petplay]

October 21 [X] [Exhibitionism]

off record babey

postcard

pov

praise kink

ptsd episodes

r/IAmA - We are time travellers from 1929. Ask us anything!

richard is less late

scars /

sex toys

social

social life

sybil monthly

t/r light bondage

take me where the fire still owns its spark (there's only one way to mend a broken heart)

tg x rated

thomas - daisy friendship

thursday: pub / drive

thursday/friday

tidbits

tuesday/wednesday/thursday + friday

Untitled document

valeting a random aristo

visit

visitor inheritance

war fic

war?? whatever this was

well of loneliness

wine drunk w/ duke

xmas

there are no duplicates here just to be clear. there are things left out actually because i have to draw a line somewhere. i hate myself! bye!

#fic talk tag #this is literally more than the amount of people i follow.

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silent-era-of-cinema · 3 years

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Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in the films Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent films, where he was one of the best-paid stars of UFA, he and his new Jewish wife Ilona Prager were forced to leave Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power. The couple settled in Britain, where he took British citizenship in 1939. He appeared in many British films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940), before emigrating to the United States around 1941, which led to his being cast as Major Strasser in Casablanca (1942).

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was born in his parents' home at Tieckstraße 39 in Berlin to Amalie Marie (née Gohtz) and Philipp Heinrich Veidt, a former military man turned civil servant. Veidt would later recall, “Like many fathers, he was affectionately autocratic in his home life, strict, idealistic. He was almost fanatically conservative.” By contrast, Amalie was sensitive and nurturing. Veidt was nicknamed 'Connie' by his family and friends. His family was Lutheran, and Veidt was confirmed in a ceremony at the Protestant Evangelical Church in Alt-Schöneberg, Berlin on 5 March 1908. Veidt's only sibling, an older brother named Karl, died in 1900 of scarlet fever at the age of 9. The family spent their summers in Potsdam.

Two years after Karl's death, Veidt's father fell ill and required heart surgery. Knowing that the family could not afford to pay the lofty fee that accompanied the surgery, the doctor charged only what the family could comfortably pay. Impressed by the surgeon's skill and kindness, Veidt vowed to "model my life on the man that saved my father's life" and he wished to become a surgeon. His hopes for a medical career were thwarted, though, when in 1912 he graduated without a diploma and ranked 13th out of 13 pupils and became discouraged over the amount of study necessary for him to qualify for medical school.

A new career path for Veidt opened up in 1911 during a school Christmas play in which he delivered a long prologue before the curtain rose. The play was badly received, and the audience was heard to mutter, "Too bad the others didn't do as well as Veidt." Veidt began to study all of the actors he could and wanted to pursue a career in acting, much to the disappointment of his father, who called actors 'gypsys' and 'outcasts'.

With the money he raised from odd jobs and the allowance his mother gave him, Veidt began attending Berlin's many theaters. He loitered outside of the Deutsches Theater after every performance, waiting for the actors and hoping to be mistaken for one. In the late summer of 1912 he met a theater porter who introduced him to actor Albert Blumenreich, who agreed to give Veidt acting lessons for six marks. He took ten lessons from him before auditioning for Max Reinhardt, reciting Goethe's Faust. During Veidt's audition, Reinhardt looked out of the window the entire time. He offered Veidt a contract as an extra for one season's work, from September 1913 to August 1914 with a pay of 50 marks a month. During this time, he played bit parts as spear carriers and soldiers. His mother attended almost every performance. His contract with the Deutsches Theater was renewed for a second season, but by this time World War I had begun, and on 28 December 1914, Veidt enlisted in the army.

In 1915, he was sent to the Eastern Front as a non-commissioned officer and took part in the Battle of Warsaw. He contracted jaundice and pneumonia, and had to be evacuated to a hospital on the Baltic Sea. While recuperating, he received a letter from his girlfriend Lucie Mannheim, telling him that she had found work at the Front Theatre in Libau. Intrigued, Veidt applied for the theatre as well. As his condition had not improved, the army allowed him to join the theatre so that he could entertain the troops. While performing at the theatre, his relationship with Mannheim ended. In late 1916, he was re-examined by the Army and deemed unfit for service; he was given a full discharge on 10 January 1917. Veidt returned to Berlin where he was readmitted to the Deutsches Theater. There, he played a small part as a priest that got him his first rave review, the reviewer hoping that "God would keep Veidt from the films." or "God save him from the cinema!"

From 1917 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. One of his earliest performances was as the murderous somnambulist Cesare in director Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a classic of German Expressionist cinema, with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. His starring role in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured circus performer whose face is cut into a permanent grin, provided the (visual) inspiration for the Batman villain the Joker. Veidt starred in other silent horror films such as The Hands of Orlac (1924), also directed by Robert Wiene, The Student of Prague (1926) and Waxworks (1924), in which he played Ivan the Terrible. Veidt also appeared in Magnus Hirschfeld's film Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others, 1919), one of the earliest films to sympathetically portray homosexuality, although the characters in it do not end up happily. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen (Land Without Women, 1929).

He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s and made a few films there, but the advent of talking pictures and his difficulty with speaking English led him to return to Germany. During this period, he lent his expertise to tutoring aspiring performers, one of whom was the later American character actress Lisa Golm.

Veidt fervently opposed the Nazi regime and later donated a major portion of his personal fortune to Britain to assist in the war effort. Soon after the Nazi Party took power in Germany, by March 1933, Joseph Goebbels was purging the film industry of anti-Nazi sympathizers and Jews, and so in April 1933, a week after Veidt's marriage to Ilona Prager, a Jewish woman, the couple emigrated to Britain before any action could be taken against either of them.

Goebbels had imposed a "racial questionnaire" in which everyone employed in the German film industry had to declare their "race" to continue to work. When Veidt was filling in the questionnaire, he answered the question about what his Rasse (race) was by writing that he was a Jude (Jew). Veidt was not Jewish, but his wife was Jewish, and Veidt would not renounce the woman he loved. Additionally, Veidt, who was opposed to antisemitism, wanted to show solidarity with the German Jewish community, who were in the process of being stripped of their rights as German citizens in the spring of 1933. As one of Germany's most prominent actors, Veidt had been informed that if he were prepared to divorce his wife and declare his support for the new regime, he could continue to act in Germany. Several other leading actors who had been opposed to the Nazis before 1933 switched allegiances. In answering the questionnaire by stating he was a Jew, Veidt rendered himself unemployable in Germany, but stated this sacrifice was worth it as there was nothing in the world that would compel him to break with his wife. Upon hearing about what Veidt had done, Goebbels remarked that he would never act in Germany again.

After arriving in Britain, Veidt perfected his English and starred in the title roles of the original anti-Nazi versions of The Wandering Jew (1933) and Jew Süss (1934), the latter film was directed by the exiled German-born director Lothar Mendes and produced by Michael Balcon for Gaumont-British. He naturalised as a British subject on 25 February 1939. By this point multi-lingual, Veidt made films both in French with expatriate French directors and in English, including three of his best-known roles for British director Michael Powell in The Spy in Black (1939), Contraband (1940) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940).

By 1941, he and Ilona had settled in Hollywood to assist in the British effort in making American films that might persuade the then-neutral and still isolationist US to join the war against the Nazis, who at that time controlled all of continental Europe and were bombing the United Kingdom. Before leaving the United Kingdom, Veidt gave his life savings to the British government to help finance the war effort. Realizing that Hollywood would most likely typecast him in Nazi roles, he had his contract mandate that they must always be villains.

He starred in a few films, such as George Cukor's A Woman's Face (1941) where he received billing under Joan Crawford's and Nazi Agent (1942), in which he had a dual role as both an aristocratic German Nazi spy and the man's twin brother, an anti-Nazi American. His best-known Hollywood role was as the sinister Major Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca (1942), a film which began pre-production before the United States entered World War II. Commenting about this well-received role, Veidt noted that it was an ironical twist of that that he was praised "for portraying the kind of character who had forced him to leave his homeland".

Veidt enjoyed sports, gardening, swimming, golfing, classical music, and reading fiction and nonfiction (including occultism; Veidt once considered himself a powerful medium). He was afraid of heights and flying, and disliked interviews and wearing ties.

In a September 1941 interview with Silver Screen, Veidt said,

I see a man who was once for years studying occult things. The science of occult things. I had the feeling there must be – something else. There are things in our world we cannot trace. I wanted to trace them. The power we have to think, to move, to speak, to feel – is it electricity, I wanted to know? Is it magnetism? Is it the heart? Is it the blood? When the body dies, where is all that? Where is the power that made the body live? No one can tell me it is not somewhere. If you believe in waves, which you must believe after you have the radio, why couldn't human beings contact the wave lengths of someone who is dead? ... this is the kind of thing with which I was, for many years, preoccupied. This is what I tried to find, the answer. I did not find it. But in looking for it there was etched, perhaps, on my face, some hint of the strange cabals I kept with unseen and unknown powers. I did not find it, I say. But I found something else. Something better. I found –faith. I found the ability, very peaceful, to accept that which I could neither see, nor hear nor touch. I am a religious man. My belief is that if we could help to make all people a little more religious, we would do a great lot. If we would pray more ... we forget to pray except when we are in a mess. That is too bad. I believe in prayer. Because when we pray, we always pray for something good.

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I must tell you something that will disappoint you ... far from being one engaged in strangle rituals of thought or action, what I like best to do is sit in this small garden, on this terrace, and – just sit. Sometimes, I confess, I think a lot; about my past. About my parents who are dead. I like to dream, to go away ... At other times, I sit and read. I read, often, a whole day through. I play golf. I used to be a golf fiend. Now I am not a fiend even on the links. Now I play because it is relaxation. I like the beach very much, the sea. I go to the films often, to the neighborhood theater, my wife and I. Sometimes we go to the Palladium, where there is dancing. It is an amazing sight to me to see young people, how they are like they were thirty years ago, how they hold hands, how they enjoy their lives. To me, the most beautiful thing in California is the Hollywood Bowl, the Concerts Under the Stars. For me, it is a terrific experience. I have never seen an audience in my life like that. 30,000 people, simple people, most of them, listening to music under the stars. I have never seen 30,000 people, simple people, so quiet. I like to think of them as a symbol that one day there may be that oneness for all mankind....

On 18 June 1918, Veidt married Gussy Holl, a cabaret entertainer. They had first met at a party in March 1918, and Conrad described her to friends as "very lovely, tall, dignified and somewhat aloof". They separated in 1919 but attempted to reconcile multiple times. Holl and Veidt divorced in 1922.

Veidt said of Holl, "She was as perfect as any wife could be. But I had not learnt how to be a proper husband." and, "I was elated by my success in my work, but shattered over my mother's death, and miserable about the way my marriage seemed to be foundering. And one day when my wife was away, I walked out of the house, and out of her life, trying to escape from something I could put no name to."

After his separation and eventual divorce from Holl, Veidt allegedly dated his co-star Anita Berber.

Veidt's second wife Felizitas Radke was from an aristocratic Austrian family. They met at a party in December 1922 or at a Charleston dance competition in 1923. Radke divorced her husband for him, and they married in April 1923. Their daughter, Vera Viola Maria, nicknamed "Kiki", was born on 10 August 1925. He was not present at her birth due to being in Italy working on The Fiddler of Florence, but upon hearing of her birth, he took the first train to Berlin and flailed and wept as he first met mother and child at the hospital; he was so hysterical from joy they had to sedate him and keep him in the hospital overnight.

Emil Jannings was Viola's godfather and Elisabeth Bergner was her godmother. She was named after one of Bergner's signature characters, Shakespeare's Viola. The birth of his daughter helped Veidt move on from the death of his dearly loved mother, who had died of a heart condition in January 1922.

From September 1926 to 1929 Veidt lived with his wife and daughter in a Spanish-style house in Beverly Hills.

Veidt enjoyed relaxing and playing with his daughter in their home, and enjoyed the company of the immigrant community, including F. W. Murnau, Carl Laemmle, and Greta Garbo, as well as the American Gary Cooper. The family returned to Germany in 1929, and moved several times afterwards, including a temporary relocation to Vienna, Austria, while Veidt participated in a theatrical tour of the continent.

Radke and Veidt divorced in 1932, with Radke citing that the frequent relocations and the separations necessitated by Veidt's acting schedule frayed their marriage. Radke at first granted custody of their daughter to Veidt, but after further consideration he decided that their daughter needed the full-time parent that his work would not allow him to be. Conrad received generous visitation rights, and Viola called her summer vacations with her father "The Happy Times". She stayed with him three or four months of the year until the outbreak of World War II.

He last married Ilona "Lilli" Barta Prager (or Preger), a Hungarian Jew, in Berlin on 30 March 1933; they remained together until his death. The two had met at a club in Berlin. Veidt said of Lilli in an October 1934 interview with The Sunday Dispatch,

Lilli was the woman I had been seeking all my life. For her I was the man. In Lilli I found the miracle of a woman who had all to give that I sought, the perfect crystallisation in one lovely human being, of all my years of searching. Lilli had the mother complex too. But in the reverse ratio to mine. In her, the mother instinct was so powerful that she poured it out, indiscriminately almost, on everyone she knew. She mothers her own mother. Meeting Lilli was like coming home to an enchanted place one had always dreamed of, but never thought to reach. For her it was the same. Our marriage is not only flawless, it is a complete and logical union, as inevitable as daybreak after night, as harmonious and right as the words that exactly fit the music. My search is finished. The picture in my mind of my mother is of a woman great and holy. But it is a picture clear and. distinct, a deep and humble memory of a woman no one could replace; but now it is not blurred by the complex which before had harassed my mind.

Veidt and Lilli arrived from London at Los Angeles on 13 June 1940 and resided in Beverly Hills, where they lived at 617 North Camden Drive.

Even after leaving England, Veidt was concerned over the plight of children cooped up in London air raid shelters, and he decided to try to cheer up their holiday. Through his attorneys in London, Veidt donated enough money to purchase 2,000 one-pound tins of candy, 2,000 large packets of chocolate, and 1,000 wrapped envelopes containing presents of British currency. The gifts went to children of needy families in various air raid shelters in the London area during Christmas 1940. The air raid shelter marshal wrote back to Veidt thanking him for the gifts. Noting Veidt's unusual kindness, he stated in his letter to him, "It is significant to note that, as far as is known to me, you are the only member of the Theatrical Profession who had the thought to send Christmas presents to the London children."

Veidt smuggled his parents-in-law from Austria to neutral Switzerland, and in 1935 he managed to get the Nazi government to let his ex-wife Radke and their daughter move to Switzerland. He also offered to help Felizita's mother, Frau Radke, of whom he was fond, leave Germany. However, she declined. A proud, strong-willed woman who was attached to her home country, she declared that "no damned little Austrian Nazi corporal" was going to make her leave her home. She reportedly survived the war, but none of the Veidts ever saw her again.

Veidt was bisexual and a feminist. In a 1941 interview he said,

There are two different kinds of men. There are the men men, what do you call them, the man's man, who likes men around, who prefers to talk with men, who says the female can never be impersonal, who takes the female lightly, as playthings. I do not see a man like that in my mirror. Perhaps, it is because I think the female and the male attract better than two men, that I prefer to talk with females. I do. I find it quite as stimulating and distinctly more comfortable. I have a theory about this – it all goes back to the mother complex. In every woman, the man who looks may find – his mother. The primary source of all his comfort. I think also that females have become too important just to play with. When men say the female cannot discuss impersonally, that is no longer so. When it is said that females cannot be geniuses, that is no longer so, either. The female is different from the male. Because she was born to be a mother. There is no doubt about that. But that does not mean that, in some cases, she is not also born a genius. Not all males are geniuses either. And among females today there are some very fine actresses, very fine; fine doctors, lawyers, even scientists and industrialists. I see no fault in any female when she wears slacks, smokes (unless it is on the street, one thing, the only thing, which I don't like), when she drives a car ... when men say things like "I bet it is a woman driving" if something is wrong with the car ahead – no, no. These are old, worn out prejudices, they do not belong in today.

In the 1930s, Veidt discovered that he had the same heart condition that his mother had died from. The condition was further aggravated by chain smoking, and Veidt took nitroglycerin tablets.

Veidt died of a massive heart attack on 3 April 1943 while playing golf at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles with singer Arthur Fields and his personal physician, Dr. Bergman, who pronounced him dead at the scene. He had suddenly gasped and fallen over after getting to the eighth hole. He was 50 years old. His ex-wife Felizitas and his daughter Viola found out about his death via a radio broadcast in Switzerland.

In 1998, his ashes, along with his wife Lilli's, were placed in a niche of the columbarium at the Golders Green Crematorium in north London.

#conrad veidt #silent era #silent hollywood #silent movie stars #classic hollywood #classic movie stars #golden age of hollywood #1910s movies #1920s hollywood #1930s hollywood #1940s hollywood

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tell me titanic facts??

Okay I nearly squealed you have no idea how happy I am that someone asked me this! Literally while typing that tag I was thinking “pls someone ask me about Titanic facts”

Anyways let’s start here

1. So Titanic was actually a part of a series of ships all created by the same people (Harland & Wolff) they were known as Olympic-class ocean liners and there were 3: Olympic , Titanic, and Brittannic respectively. They were designed to be extremely large and luxurious passenger ships during the the early 20th Century. Titanic was the largest of the 3 and at the time of her voyage the largest ship in the world.

2. Although in most movie and tv adaptations the Titanic was portrayed as just a party ship for rich people (and that’s partly true), the Titanic was also carrying hundreds of emigrants from GB, Ireland, Scandinavia and other European countries, who were seeking new life’s in America.

3. This ship legitimately had a swimming pool and a gymnasium on it

4. Although supposedly the Titanic was supposed to be “the safest ship in the world” and it praised itself (or rather her makers praised themselves) for having many advanced safety features such as “watertight compartments and remote activated watertight doors” they actually only had about one third of their possible lifeboats stocked on board, because the regulations at the time didn’t require having the Full stock. The ship was capable of carrying 48 boats which could seat up to 2,300 people but they only ended up carrying 20, 4 of which were Non-operatable due to being collapsible and fairing too difficult to lunch.

5. The ship was designed to be able to survive 4 of her watertight compartments flooding however once the iceberg hit and the hull plates buckled onwards to the starboard it opened up 16 of her watertight compartments and at that point there was no way of saving her

6. Even with already having only a third of the lifeboats they could, that at full capacity would only fit about half of their passengers, they ended up launching many lifeboats only partially loaded. And there was a disproportionate number of men left on the ship because of the “women and children first” protocol.

7. 3 hours after the initial impact the ship broke apart nearly in half and sank with over a thousand people still on board. (In a timeline this was at about 2 am) and 2 hours after she sank the RMS Carpathia arrived as the first rescue ship to the scene and was able to save an estimated 705 people.

8. After her wreck and destruction her sister ship Olympic was announced the new largest ship in the world.

9. The wreck of the Titanic wasn’t discovered until more than 70 years after her sinking and she remains on the seabed gradually disintegrating at a depth of about 12 thousand ft.

10. Known as the final survivor Millvina Dean, who was 2 months old at the time of the wreck, was a third class passenger and was immigrating to Kansas from the UK. She was aboard with her mother, father and brother, tho they weren’t supposed to be on the Titanic at all but they’re ship ended up having a coal malfunction and they were transferred at the last minute. Her, her mother and her brother were of the first 3rd class passengers to be placed on a lifeboat and brought to safety however her father was left to die on the ship due to the women and children first rule and his body was never recovered. During her 70s Millivina started participating in Titanic-related events, such as conventions, interviews, exhibitions, documentaries, etc.. she refused to watch the movie Titanic as after seeing the movie A Night to Remember she had nightmares as she couldn’t help but imagine her father as one of those people. She died in 2009 at 97 years old and was cremated and her ashes launched from the docks where the Titanic set sail.

11. And now onto my favourite fact about the Titanic. That of one passenger (she wasn’t actually a passenger but an ocean liner stewardess) named Violet Jessop. Violet was an Irish argentine ocean stewardess and nurse who has quite a unique experience. In 1911, one year before the Titanic, Violet was working as a stewardess aboard the RMS Olympic (yes the same Olympic that was from the same line and makers of the Titanic) while aboard the Olympic collided with a British warship, HMS Hawke, thankfully there were no casualties and despite the damage to the ship it managed to make its way back to port safely. Nearly a year later Violet boarded the Titanic, again as a stewardess. She was put aboard lifeboat 16 during the sinking as she was to show an example to the non-English speakers what to do, upon being placed in the life boat she was handed a baby to take care of, while aboard the RMS Carpathia a women grabbed the baby she was holding and ran off without another word (we assume this was the mother). But wait there’s more, 4 years after surviving the Titanic, in 1916 Violet was a stewardess aboard the HMHS Brittannic, a white star liner that had been converted into a hospital ship during the First World War. Now if that ship name sounds familiar that is because, yes, this ship is the same Brittannic that was the third and final sister ship of the Titanic. While aboard the ship unexpectedly sank due to an unexplained explosion (it was later discovered in a diving expedition of the ship a century later in 2016 that The ship had struck a deep sea land mine.) the Brittannic sunk in 55 minutes, mich faster than the 3 hours it took the Titanic to sink, and killed 30 out of it 1,066 passengers. Violet made it onto a lifeboat, however she and other passengers were almost killed by the Ships Propellers that were sucking the lifeboats back under the sinking ship. Violet has to jump out of her lifeboat which resulted in a traumatic head injury however despite this and despite being apart of not one not two but three ship wrecks, Violet Jessop survived and even when back to work in 1920 where she continued to stewardess ships until she retired in 1950. She has been known as “miss unsinkable”. She died at 83 in 1971 due to congestive heart failure.

Okay that’s all I have! There’s so many more but this is already so long! I did go and fact check everything and make sure all of the information was as accurate as I could make it, but keeping in mind that as much information as we do know there’s also so much we don’t as the Titanic sunk in 1912 and it was very hard to fact check and keep records back then.

But thank you for letting me relive my special interest from age 11!

#haley gets personal #asks #hales answers #@lesbanim #okay so the story of how this special interest came to be is that back in like 2012 our local movie theater was doing a special 3d showing o #of titanic in honor of the 100 year anneversairy of the sinking #and my mom was going and i wanted to go because id never seen titanic #but she told me i was too young to watch it #i was like 11 or 12 at the time #and so she went to watch it and being the bitter petty child i was #i decided that if i couldnt watch the fictional titanic #i was going to learn everything i possibly could about the real titanic #thus we enter months long of research and interest babbling my poor mother had to undure until finally she let me watch the movie #and i cried for 5 hours straight and had nigtmares #the end!

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THE MONOPOLIZATION OF AMERICA: The Biggest Economic Problem You’re Hearing Almost Nothing About

Not long ago I visited some farmers in Missouri whose profits are disappearing. Why? Monsanto alone owns the key genetic traits to more than 90 percent of the soybeans planted by farmers in the United States, and 80 percent of the corn. Which means Monsanto can charge farmers much higher prices.

Farmers are getting squeezed from the other side, too, because the food processors they sell their produce to are also consolidating into mega companies that have so much market power they can cut the prices they pay to farmers.

This doesn’t mean lower food prices to you. It means more profits to the monopolists.

Monopolies All Around

America used to have antitrust laws that stopped corporations from monopolizing markets, and often broke up the biggest culprits. No longer. It’s a hidden upward redistribution of money and power from the majority of Americans to corporate executives and wealthy shareholders.

You may think you have lots of choices, but take a closer look:

1. The four largest food companies control 82 percent of beef packing, 85 percent of soybean processing, 63 percent of pork packing, and 53 percent of chicken processing.

2. There are many brands of toothpaste, but 70 percent of all of it comes from just two companies.

3. You may think you have your choice of sunglasses, but they’re almost all from one company: Luxottica -- which also owns nearly all the eyeglass retail outlets.

4. Practically every plastic hanger in America is now made by one company, Mainetti.

5. What brand of cat food should you buy? Looks like lots of brands but behind them are basically just two companies.

6. What about your pharmaceuticals? Yes, you can get low-cost generic versions. But drug companies are in effect paying the makers of generic drugs to delay cheaper versions. Such “pay for delay” agreements are illegal in other advanced economies, but antitrust enforcement hasn’t laid a finger on them in America. They cost you and me an estimated $3.5 billion a year.

7. You think your health insurance will cover the costs? Health insurers are consolidating, too. Which is one reason your health insurance premiums, copayments, and deductibles are soaring.

8. You think you have a lot of options for booking discount airline tickets and hotels online? Think again. You have only two. Expedia merged with Orbitz, so that’s one company. And then there’s Priceline.

9. How about your cable and Internet service? Basically just four companies (and two of them just announced they’re going to merge).

Why the Monopolization of America is a Huge Problem

The problem with all this consolidation into a handful of giant firms is they don’t have to compete. Which means they can -- and do -- jack up your prices.

Such consolidation keeps down wages. Workers with less choice of whom to work for have a harder time getting a raise. When local labor markets are dominated by one major big box retailer, or one grocery chain, for example, those firms essentially set wage rates for the area.

These massive corporations also have a lot of political clout. That’s one reason they’re consolidating: Power.

Antitrust laws were supposed to stop what’s been going on. But today, they’re almost a dead letter. This hurts you.

We’ve Forgotten History

The first antitrust law came in 1890 when Senator John Sherman responded to public anger about the economic and political power of the huge railroad, steel, telegraph, and oil cartels – then called “trusts” -- that were essentially running America.

A handful of corporate chieftains known as “robber barons” presided over all this – collecting great riches at the expense of workers who toiled long hours often in dangerous conditions for little pay. Corporations gouged consumers and corrupted politics.

Then in 1901, progressive reformer Teddy Roosevelt became president. By this time, the American public was demanding action.

In his first message to Congress in December 1901, only two months after assuming the presidency, Roosevelt warned, “There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as the trusts are in certain of their features and tendencies hurtful to the general welfare.”

Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust Act to go after the Northern Securities Company, a giant railroad trust run by J. P. Morgan, the nation’s most powerful businessman. The U.S. Supreme Court backed Roosevelt and ordered the company dismantled.

In 1911, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust was broken up, too. But in its decision, the Supreme Court effectively altered the Sherman Act, saying that monopolistic restraints of trade were objectionable if they were “unreasonable” -- and that determination was to be made by the courts. What was an unreasonable restraint of trade?

In the presidential election of 1912, Roosevelt, running again for president but this time as a third party candidate, said he would allow some concentration of industries where there were economic efficiencies due to large scale. He’d then he’d have experts regulate these large corporations for the public benefit.

Woodrow Wilson, who ended up winning the election, and his adviser Louis Brandeis, took a different view. They didn’t think regulation would work, and thought all monopolies should be broken up.

For the next 65 years, both views dominated. We had strong antitrust enforcement along with regulations that held big corporations in check.

Most big mergers were prohibited. Even large size was thought to be a problem. In 1945, in the case of United States v. Alcoa (1945), the Supreme Court ruled that even though Alcoa hadn’t pursued a monopoly, it had become one by becoming so large that it was guilty of violating the Sherman Act.

What Happened to Antitrust?

All this changed in the 1980s, after Robert Bork -- who, incidentally, I studied antitrust law with at Yale Law School, and then worked for when he became Solicitor General under President Ford – wrote an influential book called The Antitrust Paradox, which argued that the sole purpose of the Sherman Act is consumer welfare.

Bork argued that mergers and large size almost always create efficiencies that bring down prices, and therefore should be legal. Bork’s ideas were consistent with the conservative Chicago School of Economics, and found a ready audience in the Reagan White House.

Bork was wrong. But since then, even under Democratic administrations, antitrust has all but disappeared.

The Monopolization of High Tech

We’re seeing declining competition even in cutting-edge, high-tech industries.

In the new economy, information and ideas are the most valuable forms of property. This is where the money is.

We haven’t seen concentration on this scale ever before.

Google and Facebook are now the first stops for many Americans seeking news. Meanwhile, Amazon is now the first stop for more than a half of American consumers seeking to buy anything. Talk about power.

Contrary to the conventional view of an American economy bubbling with innovative small companies, the reality is quite different. The rate at which new businesses have formed in the United States has slowed markedly since the late 1970s.

Big Tech’s sweeping patents, standard platforms, fleets of lawyers to litigate against potential rivals, and armies of lobbyists have created formidable barriers to new entrants. Google’s search engine is so dominant, “Google” has become a verb.

The European Union filed formal antitrust charges against Google, accusing it of forcing search engine users into its own shopping platforms. And last June, it fined Google a record $2.7 billion.

But not in America.

It’s Time to Revive Antitrust

Economic and political power cannot be separated because dominant corporations gain political influence over how markets are organized, maintained, and enforced -- which enlarges their economic power further.

One of the original goals of the antitrust laws was to prevent this.

Big Tech — along with the drug, insurance, agriculture, and financial giants — is coming to dominate both our economy and our politics.

There’s only one answer: It is time to revive antitrust.

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bigmacdaddio · 3 years

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George Moriarty story...

Third baseman / Umpire / Manager

Born:

July 7, 1884

Chicago, Illinois

Died:

April 8, 1964 (aged 79)

Miami, Florida

Batted:

Right

Threw:

Right

MLB debut

September 27, 1903, for the Chicago Cubs

Last MLB appearance

May 4, 1916, for the Chicago White Sox

MLB statistics

Batting average

.251

Home runs

Runs batted in

376

Stolen bases

248

Managerial Record

150–157

Winning percentage

.489

Teams

As player

Chicago Cubs (1903–1904)

New York Highlanders (1906–1908)

Detroit Tigers (1909–1915)

Chicago White Sox (1916)

As manager

Detroit Tigers (1927–1928)

George Joseph Moriarty (July 7, 1884 – April 8, 1964) was an American third baseman, umpire and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1903 to 1940. He played for the Chicago Cubs, New York Highlanders, Detroit Tigers, and Chicago White Sox from 1903 to 1916.

Life[edit]

Moriarty was born in Chicago, where he grew up near the Union Stock Yards.[1] He made his major league debut on September 7, 1903 at the age of 19 with the Cubs. He was an average hitter but an outstanding baserunner, with 20 or more stolen bases in eight consecutive seasons and 248 career stolen bases, including eleven steals of home.[2] He played his last major league game on May 4, 1916 with the White Sox.

Afterward, he became an American League umpire from 1917 to 1940, interrupted only by a 2-year stint as manager of the Tigers in 1927–28. He was one of the AL's most highly regarded umpires in his era, working in the 1921, 1925, 1930, 1933 and 1935 World Series (as crew chief in 1930 and 1935), as well as the second All-Star Game in 1934.

A baseball card of Moriarty as a member of the Detroit Tigers in 1911.

On Memorial Day in 1932, Moriarty worked behind the plate for a Cleveland Indians home game against the White Sox. When several Chicago players took exception to his calls, he challenged them to settle the dispute under the stands of League Park after the game. Pitcher Milt Gaston took him on first but Moriarty knocked him flat, breaking his hand. Several White Sox, including manager Lew Fonseca and catcher and future AL umpire Charlie Berry, took him on in turn. The next day, AL president Will Harridge issued numerous fines and a 10-day suspension for Gaston.[1]

It is reported that once while Moriarty was umpiring, none other than Babe Ruth stepped out of the batter's box and asked Moriarty to spell his last name. When he did so, Ruth reportedly replied, "Just as I thought; only one I." The baseball card shown to the left of this text, however, misspells Moriarty's name with two I's.

Moriarty also was noted for coming to the defense of Tiger slugger Hank Greenberg in the 1935 World Series (eventually won by Detroit), when he warned several Chicago Cubs to stop yelling antisemitic slurs at Greenberg.[3] When they defied him and kept up the abuse, he took the unusual step of clearing the entire Chicago bench—a move that got him fined by longtime Commissioner/Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (known primarily to posterity for keeping blacks out of the major leagues throughout his quarter-century in office).[4] Three years later, when Greenberg was pursuing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, Moriarty kept the final game of the 1938 season going until darkness made it impossible to continue, Greenberg finishing with 58 homers, two shy of Ruth's record.[5]

In his biography, Greenberg recalled:

Much later in my career George Moriarty and I became very good friends. Back in the early 1900s he played third base for Detroit, and he used to steal home. Somebody wrote a poem about him, and the title was "Never Die on Third Moriarty." All through the rest of his life George felt he knew something about stealing home. When he was umpiring on third base, and on occasion when I'd get on third, he coached me on how to take a lead so I could steal home. I never had the guts enough to try, because I didn't think I could make it. I'd run down the line, and he'd keep insisting that I take a bigger lead. I was always afraid that I was going to get picked off. But it was interesting to see Moriarty, who was umpiring at third base, coaching me on how to steal home for the Tigers. It became a joke among the players, but I never got up the nerve to try it.[4]

Despite his combative field persona Moriarty was quite congenial off the field, maintaining close friendships with Jesuit priests at the College of the Holy Cross in central Massachusetts. He also fancied himself a lyricist, supplying the words for Richard A. Whiting's tune "Love Me Like the Ivy Loves the Old Oak Tree."[6] and J. R. Shannon on "Maybe I'll Forget You Then" and "Ragtime 'Rastus Brown" in 1912.

On the other hand, during 1944 divorce proceedings his wife testified, "His attitude toward the next-door neighbors was of intense hatred for no reason whatever. One time he heard the neighbor's radio. He was so angry he carried our radio to the open window next to the neighbor and turned it on full blast for about three hours."

Moriarty joined the AL public relations staff after retiring from field work, and later became a scout for the Tigers, helping to discover such players as hard-hitting Harvey Kuenn and southpaw Billy Hoeft before retiring in December 1958.

He died in Miami at 79.[1]

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462.

5000 Question Survey Pt. 20

1901. You're real life is an rpg and you have to choose your stats. Choose your race (you can't pick whatever race you are right now): mixed Choose your alignment: huh? 1902. Now, divide ten points between these stats for yourself: Strength: 3 Charm: 3 Luck: 2 Magic: 2 1903. Now pick 2 skills for yourself: (alchemy, animal taming, blacksmithy, carpentry, cartography, healing, lock picking, music, magic) healing and lock picking. 1904. Do you and your parents like any of the same bands/singers? yeah, probably. 1905. Do you know who lives three houses down from you? nope.

1906. What chore do you absolutely hate doing? sweeping and mopping. 1907. If you could choose anyone, who would you pick as your mentor? i haven’t found the right person yet. maybe at my next job. 1908. What would you name the autobiography of your life? undecided. 1909. What do you miss most about being a kid? not having to worry about real problems. 1910. Why is there an entry for the word 'dictionary' in a dictionary? because why not? it’d be stupid to skip it. 1911. How does glue not stick to the inside of the bottle? lack of oxygen in the bottle maybe. 1912. What do you plant to grow a seedless watermelon? a seed. 1913. If you dislike your family, are you obligated to spend time with them? Show up at family functions? Help them out in their time of need? Is a family even relevant anymore – especially when you have a close circle of friends? you’re definitely not obligated. i feel as though if they’d attend your events or help you out in a time of need, you’d owe it to them to do the same. if not, fuck it. 1914. How would you live your life if you had a week to live? How would you live your life if you had 5 years left to live? How would you live your life if you were going to live forever? one week: spend every day doing something on my bucket list. five years: make goals and plan out something special to do every month. forever: i’d study as much as i could about anything and everything. 1915. Is a day spent watching movies when you could’ve been working a day wasted or well spent? it depends if i had more important things to do. 1916. Can we ever be sure that our perception of things is right – without consulting other people? If we do consult others, how are we to know whether theirs is true or if we’re both deluded? we’ll never know... 1917. Would your life be better or worse if you knew the day, time, and place that you were going to die? worse. it’s all i’d think about. 1918. What is honor? Does honor matter anymore? sure it does. 1919. Are the stories we tell ourselves about our past true, or do we bend the truth so we can create our stories? If the latter is true, than what worth is there in the stories if they aren’t true? if you don’t intentionally bend the truth, it’s still your story, it’s just how you remembered it. 1920. What would happen if you never wasted another minute of your life? What would that look like? i’d never sleep. 1921. How much control do you really have over your life? full control. 1922. Does your happiness depend on where you live? For example, if you owned Santa Monica Real Estate, some of the most expensive in the world, would you truly be fulfilled? not at all. life would definitely be sweeter but it doesn’t define my happiness. 1923. How much does your happiness depend on your health? haha hardly. 1924. What is more difficult for you; looking into someone's eyes when you are telling someone how you feel, or looking into someone's eyes when they are telling you how they feel? maybe looking into someone’s eyes and telling them how i feel. 1925. What are 3 things that make you beautiful? mind, body, soul hahaha. jk. 1926. Have you ever sacrificed self respect for love? yeah. 1927. If you had to be stuck in a fairy tale, which one would you choose? cinderella. pretty good ending. 1928. What activities make you lose track of time? watching shows/movies and reading. 1929. Have you ever wondered why they leave blank pages at the back of the books? never wondered. 1930. If a habitual liar tells you that he is a habitual liar, will you believe him? i mean, you can’t lie 100% of the time. 1931. Would you ever be willing to move to a distant country knowing there would be little chance of seeing your current friends or family again except on trips? probably not. unless i could travel to see them very constantly. 1932. If you woke up tomorrow with no fear, what would you do first? apply for a million jobs. 1933. What was your biggest worry five years ago, do you still feel the same about it at this minute? nope. 1934. What promises have you never carried through for yourself? idk. 1935. When did you last do something for nothing in return? i forgot haha. 1936. What must you do daily to keep yourself ‘sane’ ? get enough sleep. 1937. When did you last judge someone who you didn’t know? tonight. 1938. How would you hate to be described? rude. 1939. Would you fall head over heels in love with you? haha no. 1940. What in your life exhilarates you? Do you do enough of it? traveling. and not lately. 1941. What makes you indispensable? idk. 1942. Do you follow at least 20 blogs in your field? no. 1943. When was the last time you said or wrote something someone disagreed with? i forgot. 1944. What do you bring to the world that is truly yours? my spirit. shit, idk. 1945. What one word do you want people to think when they think of you? memorable. 1946. What one image do you want people see when you cross their mind? happiness. 1947. What one feeling do you want people to feel when they think of you? happy. 1948. What one thought do you want in people’s minds about you? omg i don’t knowwww. 1949. Why are so many people depressed? idk. either mental health or they’re just not happy with their lives. 1950. When is war justifiable? hardly ever. it never turns out well, people will die. 1951. What does it mean to live in the present moment? make the most of things? 1952. What is the greatest quality humans possess? power of the mind. 1953, What is it that prevents people from living to their full potential? addictions. 1954. Are we all one? no. 1955. Are the senses meant to be starved and destroyed or given in to and relished? given in to and relished. 1956. What are some things that you wished people knew about you? nothing. 1957. What makes it so hard to break away from things or people that we care about dearly? not having them in your life. 1958. Which was an incident in your life that totally changed the way you think today? not sure. 1959. Why can only 2 people fall in love with each other, why can't 4, 5, 6 or 12 people fall in love with each other? Why just a couple and not a triple, quadruple or more? i mean, have you seen sister wives? polygamy is alive and real mate. 1960. What do you know that you really know? And how do you come to know that you know? ooookay... 1961. Why are pirates usually depicted wearing eye patches? idk. 1962. Is there someone you wish to teach a lesson, and still haven't? nope. 1963. Who do you sometimes compare yourself to? my friends. 1964. What can you do today that you were not capable of a year ago? drive to work on my own. 1965. What do we all have in common besides our genes that makes us human? our ability to think. 1966. What’s something you know you do differently than most people? the way i tie my laces. 1967. If you could instill one piece of advice in a newborn baby’s mind, what advice would you give? be kind to others. 1968. Can you describe your life in a six word sentence? no. 1969. What is your most beloved childhood memory? my birthdays. 1970. What is the difference between innocence and ignorance? there’s a purity in innocence whereas none in ignorance. 1971. Would you rather lose all of your old memories or never be able to make new ones? that’s tough... not sure. half and half. 1972. What’s the difference between settling for things and accepting the way things are? settling is not striving for anything more whereas accepting the way things are is more about accepting things you cannot change. 1973. When have you worked hard and loved every minute of it? uni i guess. 1974. What have you done in the last year that makes you proud? traveled. 1975. Why do we idolize sports players? a lot of them have inspiring stories. 1976. What do you do to deliberately impress others? nothing lol. 1977. What’s the best part of growing older? learning more about life and yourself. 1978. What’s the biggest lie you once believed was true? santa. 1979. What is the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done? rocked up to a stadium during a stomry night and randomly bought ice hockey tickets. turned out to be the best seats in the house. 1980. Do you like the city or town you live in? Why or why not? it’s okay. it’s still quiet and fairly safe. 1981. What’s the best part of being you? idk. 1982. If you could have a gift certificate to have one service done for you every day for an entire year (getting your hair styled, getting a massage) what would you pick? massage for sure. 1983. Who is your mentor and what have you learned from them? no one. 1984. Would you rather your child be less attractive and extremely intelligent or extremely attractive and less intelligent? more intelligent. 1985. What is the biggest change you have made in your life in the last year? nothing as of yet. 1986. What is the biggest conscientious change you have made in your life ever? idk. 1987. When should you reveal a secret that you promised you wouldn’t reveal? if it’s a means of life or death. 1988. If you could live forever but you would be the only one, would you want to? Why? no way, how lonely. 1989. What are some recent compliments you’ve received? my makeup looks nice. 1990. What is the number one quality that makes someone a good leader? being relatable. 1991. What do you love to practice? nothing. 1992. What is something you have always wanted since you were a kid? a dog. and i got it. 1993. When in your life have you been a victim of stereotyping? all the freaking time. 1994. How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? household name status i guess. 1995. Why is it that doctors and lawyers call what they do 'practice' but other professions don't? How does your profession sound when referred to as a practice? idkkk. 1996. What are 5 topics you follow on twitter? i mostly follow my friends. 1997. If you had to get one sentence tattooed on your body, what would it be? none omg. 1998. At what point will you be good enough? When are you self-improved enough to accept yourself? if i reach all my goals. 1999. What are the three "nevers" of your life? never doing hard drugs (even though i have), never taking anyone i love for granted and i’m never going to settle. 2000. What is your first priority when you wake up? check the time.

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September 7th: MoMA Lecture in Painting and Sculpture and a visit to the Paper and Photography Conservation Lab

For our first trip of the semester we visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York. We started by exploring the 5th floor which holds the museum’s permanent collection of American Art. Weaving our way through the typical Friday craze of tourists, New Yorkers, and art lovers a-like, we stopped to engage with the grimacing figures of Francis Bacon. Created during the aftermath of World War II, Bacon’s work highlights intense representations of death, expressing many layers of psychological trauma through each individual brush stroke. Within Bacon’s art, there is an acknowledgement to his European roots of expressionism that is finely contrasted by his abstracted and often isolated surrealist figures. When viewing Francis Bacon in the past, I’ve always been hesitant to engage with his work. I found it twisted, even a bit repulsive, a response I think is heightened by his palette that is reminiscent of exposed flesh. (Three Studies for the Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963). This time, when exploring his work with the class, I recognized a kind of tormented tenderness. Even when viewing Painting,1946, I felt an urge to not look directly at the work, as the hanging cow carcasses alone are enough for me to keep one foot moving in front of the other. However, instead I chose to experience the bold and disturbingly fascinating image that hung before me and understood Francis Bacon and the raw emotion behind his work more deeply.

Further venturing through the permanent collection, we then sought out the Jackson Pollock room which holds some of his most outstanding work and acts as a right of passage for any viewer that visits the MoMA. When discussing Pollock, we first analyzed an early work of his that demonstrates a transition into his signature style of “drip” painting. Titled Full Fathom Five,1947, the allover composition is rich with dense encrusted layers of various paints, as the artist creates a kind of unsettled seascape that is reminiscent of a strange dream. The surface of the painting itself holds an assortment of objects such as buttons, coins, nails, and even an old cigarette or two, presumably of which belonged to Pollock. I’ve always loved this work of his, I think in part due to his energetic and unfettered multicolored lines that seem to dance from layer to layer along the surface of the canvas.

During our visit, we had a consistent theme of contemporary female artists who maintained long and fruitful careers. The first was Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). A French-American artist, Bourgeois was fascinated in the psychology of art, exploring this subject in both the artist and the viewer. She is perhaps best known for her large-scale sculptures and installation art, such as the monumental spiders. We next explored the stunning photographs of Helen Levitt (1913-2009). With a career that spanned over 60 years, Levitt poetically documented the streets of New York as her photographs still hold a type of authentic yet playful insight into the daily lives of strangers, demonstrated in both black and white and color. Lastly, we took the time to view the minimalist work of Agnes Martin (1912-2004) whose sublime softly colored canvases illustrate not what is seen, but what is forever known by the mind, a pursuit of balance and harmony.

We concluded our first trip in the most tremendous way, with an exclusive and privileged tour of the MoMA Paper and Photography Conservation Lab. The design of the lab reflects the architecture that it is housed in, modern with a flexibility of space. During our visit, we had the wonderful opportunity of meeting two female members of the conservation staff. Serving every department in the museum, the conservation department addresses specific desires and requirements needed to conserve painting, sculpture, paper, and photographs. The department helps to oversee new and current exhibitions, the care of collections, and the overall preservation of each work of art in the museum’s collection. To say the least, is it not a job to be looked at lightly. As the two women presented information about the museum and their personal job assignments, they expressed a firm and direct passion that could be felt clearly when discussing their work. It was inspiring to be able to ask them questions and see firsthand women who are so intelligent and motivated in the work that they do and in the world of art.

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tragicbooks · 7 years

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Don't you think heat waves suck? 20 photos show how old-timers beat the heat.

Lately it can feel like we've somehow accidentally opened a portal to the heart of the sun.

Pictured: Phoenix, Arizona. Image from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Wikimedia Commons.

Unfortunately, heat waves are getting stronger and more common today, thanks to climate change. According to this article by The Guardian, a third of the world is at risk of dangerous heat waves today. While heat waves are hitting us more frequently now than in the past, 100 years ago people still had to deal with the occasional temperature spike. How did they do it?

The pictures from then show how people coped in ways as surprising as they are relatable.

Here are 20 examples of what I mean:

1. Need ice? That's going to require a little more muscle power than just walking over to your freezer.

Not going to lie, that looks incredibly refreshing. Photo from 1932. Photo from Francis M.R.Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

2. Back then, ice didn't come in plastic bags from a freezer outside 7-Eleven. You had to get it delivered.

August 1911. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

This photo's from 1911, just a couple years before the first electrically-powered home refrigerators hit the scene. Before then, the ice box was literally that — a box kept cool by giant chunks of ice.

3. Of course, once you carry that load of ice in, you have to have a little sit. Sometimes on it. With an ice cream.

Damp shorts are a small price to pay for the most refreshing chair ever. Photo from Fox Photos/Getty Images.

4. At some point, you decide your fashion sense is less important than keeping cool.

It's hard to keep a stiff upper lip when you have the funnies sitting on your head. July 1913. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

5. Wet pants are a small price to pay for a chance to go wading.

A group of girls goes wading into the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park. August 1911. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

6. And everybody's gonna need a hat.

These men are so happy about their hats, it's almost inappropriate. Circa 1928. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

7. Edwardian gentlemen know to act normally even if one is sweltering in a suit and bow tie. For comfort, one may remove one's jacket only.

Aww, yeah. May 1914. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

8. If you've ever lived anywhere super dry, you know all about spraying the driveway to keep the dust down.

1925. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

9. Or taking an extra bath to cool off before bed.

August 1919. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

10. Summer is the perfect time to take a day off and hit the beach with your friends.

May 1925. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

11. And everyone else's friends too, apparently.

A beach in Bognor Regis in 1933. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

12. At some point, it's hot enough to ignore the signs and just jump in a public fountain.

1912. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

13. And live your whole life in the water.

Circa 1930. Photo from Hulton Archive/Getty Images

14. Literally — your whole life.

Can't imagine doing that with a Macbook. Circa 1937. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

15. Summer is the time when swimwear becomes daywear then eveningwear.

1929. Photo from Fox Photos/Getty Images.

16. No matter what you're wearing, lounge around in general. It's too damn hot to do anything else.

That is the slump of man who's decided that it's too hot to care anymore. Paris, 1929. Photo from Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

17. Get some sun.

1933. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

18. Of course, in a heat wave, you've got to make sure to watch our for your animal friends too.

May 1936. Photo from E. Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

19. Especially if that means letting them join for a dip.

Horses in the Thames. 1935. Photo from David Savill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

20. Or making sure they've got the right accessories.

1928. Photo from Fox Photos/Getty Images.

As the Earth gets warmer, heat waves are likely to increase in both frequency and strength, so take a page from these summer-sun veterans and play it safe.

Drink plenty of water. Keep an eye out for signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Try to do outside chores in the morning or evening, when it tends to be less hot, if you can.

And keep an eye out for tricky reporters and cameras because, who knows, in 100 years, you might end up on a list just like this one.

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socialviralnews · 7 years

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Don't you think heat waves suck? 20 photos show how old-timers beat the heat.

Lately it can feel like we've somehow accidentally opened a portal to the heart of the sun.

Pictured: Phoenix, Arizona. Image from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Wikimedia Commons.

The pictures from then show how people coped in ways as surprising as they are relatable.

Here are 20 examples of what I mean:

1. Need ice? That's going to require a little more muscle power than just walking over to your freezer.

Not going to lie, that looks incredibly refreshing. Photo from 1932. Photo from Francis M.R.Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

2. Back then, ice didn't come in plastic bags from a freezer outside 7-Eleven. You had to get it delivered.

August 1911. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

3. Of course, once you carry that load of ice in, you have to have a little sit. Sometimes on it. With an ice cream.

Damp shorts are a small price to pay for the most refreshing chair ever. Photo from Fox Photos/Getty Images.

4. At some point, you decide your fashion sense is less important than keeping cool.

It's hard to keep a stiff upper lip when you have the funnies sitting on your head. July 1913. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

5. Wet pants are a small price to pay for a chance to go wading.

A group of girls goes wading into the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park. August 1911. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

6. And everybody's gonna need a hat.

These men are so happy about their hats, it's almost inappropriate. Circa 1928. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

7. Edwardian gentlemen know to act normally even if one is sweltering in a suit and bow tie. For comfort, one may remove one's jacket only.

Aww, yeah. May 1914. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

8. If you've ever lived anywhere super dry, you know all about spraying the driveway to keep the dust down.

1925. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

9. Or taking an extra bath to cool off before bed.

August 1919. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

10. Summer is the perfect time to take a day off and hit the beach with your friends.

May 1925. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

11. And everyone else's friends too, apparently.

A beach in Bognor Regis in 1933. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

12. At some point, it's hot enough to ignore the signs and just jump in a public fountain.

1912. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

13. And live your whole life in the water.

Circa 1930. Photo from Hulton Archive/Getty Images

14. Literally — your whole life.

Can't imagine doing that with a Macbook. Circa 1937. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

15. Summer is the time when swimwear becomes daywear then eveningwear.

1929. Photo from Fox Photos/Getty Images.

16. No matter what you're wearing, lounge around in general. It's too damn hot to do anything else.

That is the slump of man who's decided that it's too hot to care anymore. Paris, 1929. Photo from Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

17. Get some sun.

1933. Photo from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

18. Of course, in a heat wave, you've got to make sure to watch our for your animal friends too.

May 1936. Photo from E. Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

19. Especially if that means letting them join for a dip.

Horses in the Thames. 1935. Photo from David Savill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

20. Or making sure they've got the right accessories.

1928. Photo from Fox Photos/Getty Images.

As the Earth gets warmer, heat waves are likely to increase in both frequency and strength, so take a page from these summer-sun veterans and play it safe.

Drink plenty of water. Keep an eye out for signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Try to do outside chores in the morning or evening, when it tends to be less hot, if you can.

And keep an eye out for tricky reporters and cameras because, who knows, in 100 years, you might end up on a list just like this one.

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jeannette-marshall-optioneerjm · 7 years

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Follow the rules before you define them

Black & White Self-portrait wit glasses by Wix Photographer Juliette Jourdain

“This above ALL: to thine own self be true.”

~ William Shakespeare

(Hamlet)

LOL, I have to chuckle. I admit that I try a number of different online outlets or portals to connect and network. As I continue to explore, I extrapolate a lot of mistakes being made by a similar group of people.

It would appear as though the majority of marketers think that their prospective clients are dumb or tuned out. They think they are making the rules, when , in fact, they are breaking the rules. I thought of a few to get started to those who reach out to prospect for others to hire you as a social media expert. Rule No. 1 Know your audience and what they are looking for Rule No. 2 Lead by example Rule No. 3 Ensure your follower to follow ratio is weighted by who is following you, not the other way around. Rule No. 4 Try to get a few online influencers in your corner. Rule No. 5 Be your own unique voice, don’t try to say what you THINK others want to hear. Rule No. 6 Be creative, be thought provoking, be visual Rule No. 7 Don’t try to build your acclaim by 3 degrees of separation Rule No. 8 Do NOT plagiarize others’ ideas and claim them as your own. Rule No. 9 Give credit where credit is due Rule No. 10 Say thank you, show gratitude, share appreciation These rules can be expanded. I likely will. The main idea is to get started with the idea and then let things flow and the ideas evolve. Rule No. 11 Test your ideas, check for traction, respond to interaction or reaction Start at Rule No. 1 again. Like a snowball, go through the process again, see what you can attract and build upon as you go through the steps each time. Rule No. 12 Comment to an idea originator if something they said, you tried, and share what worked, what didn’t work. Rule No. 13 You will only build a crowd once you fade into the crowd or are enveloped within one.

Tulip: my favorite flower

As today putters to an end, I bid adieu to 55 and resolve to coasting towards 60 now that I’ve crossed from the mid-point to the other side. Thanks to one of my greatest Social Media friends, Mott, shared Conan O’Brien’s birthday post on Facebook and I happened to see this morning. How cool is that eh? I like the idea of having “something in common with Conan O’Brien” …. and a whole list of greatest in the following company whom we keep on celebrating an April 18th birthday …. Bon Fete mes ami :o)

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April 18 Famous Birthdays (SOURCE: BIRTHDAY NINJAs)

The zodiac sign of a person born on April 18 is Aries ♈.

The following famous people celebrate their birthday on April 18th. The list is arranged in chronological order and includes celebrities like actors, actresses, models, singers, rappers and producers. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info and know the meaning of their life path number.

The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 1 – 20.

1480

Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519). Life path number 8

1503

Henry II of Navarre, (d. 1555). Life path number 22

1590

Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617). Life path number 1

1605

Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674). Life path number 7

1648

Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (d. 1717). Life path number 5

1666

Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747). Life path number 5

1740

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (d. 1810). Life path number 7

1759

Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823). Life path number 8

1771

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820). Life path number 2

1772

David Ricardo, English economist and politician (d. 1823). Life path number 3

1794

William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863). Life path number 7

1797

Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877). Life path number 1

1813

James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865). Life path number 8

1819

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874). Life path number 5

1819

Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895). Life path number 5

1838

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912). Life path number 6

1857

Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938). Life path number 7

1857

Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935). Life path number 7

1858

Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962). Life path number 8

1863

Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942). Life path number 22

1863

Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920). Life path number 22

1864

Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916). Life path number 5

1874

Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941). Life path number 6

1874

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (d. 1938). Life path number 6

1877

Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950). Life path number 9

1879

Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962). Life path number 2

1880

Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968). Life path number 3

1882

Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964). Life path number 5

1882

Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977). Life path number 5

1884

Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937). Life path number 7

1888

Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979). Life path number 2

1889

Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970). Life path number 3

1893

Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944). Life path number 7

1896

Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948). Life path number 1

1897

Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001). Life path number 2

1897

Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish skier (d. 1975). Life path number 2

1898

Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981). Life path number 3

1901

Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967). Life path number 6

1901

László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975). Life path number 6

1902

Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (d. 1972). Life path number 7

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1902

Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981). Life path number 7

1904

Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981). Life path number 9

1905

Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990). Life path number 1

1905

George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998). Life path number 1

1907

Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995). Life path number 3

1911

Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman and race car driver (d. 1992). Life path number 7

1911

Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (d. 2011). Life path number 7

1914

Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014). Life path number 1

1915

Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960). Life path number 2

1916

Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984). Life path number 3

1916

Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005). Life path number 3

1917

Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947). Life path number 22

1917

Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981). Life path number 22

1918

Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014). Life path number 5

1918

André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958). Life path number 5

1918

Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 5

1918

Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded ”CliffsNotes” (d. 2001). Life path number 5

1918

Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004). Life path number 5

1919

Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012). Life path number 6

1919

Virginia O’Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 6

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 61 – 80.

1920

John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1921

Jean Richard, French actor and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 8

1922

Barbara Hale, American actress. Life path number 9

1922

Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (d. 2000). Life path number 9

1923

Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013). Life path number 1

1923

Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, English engineer and politician (d. 2015). Life path number 1

1924

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005). Life path number 2

1924

Henry Hyde, American commander, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007). Life path number 2

1924

Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2015). Life path number 2

1925

Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014). Life path number 3

1925

Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005). Life path number 3

1926

Doug Insole, English cricketer. Life path number 22

1926

Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994). Life path number 22

1927

Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008). Life path number 5

1927

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013). Life path number 5

1927

Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 2015). Life path number 5

1928

Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015). Life path number 6

1928

Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014). Life path number 6

1929

Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician. Life path number 7

1930

Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor and singer. Life path number 8

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 81 – 100.

1931

Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013). Life path number 9

1934

James Drury, American actor. Life path number 3

1934

George Shirley, American tenor and educator. Life path number 3

1935

Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013). Life path number 22

1935

Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22

1936

Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer. Life path number 5

1936

Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997). Life path number 5

1936

Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver. Life path number 5

1937

Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009). Life path number 6

1937

Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian long jumper and heptathlete (d. 2011). Life path number 6

1937

Teddy Taylor, Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. Life path number 6

1939

Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 2010). Life path number 8

1940

Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Life path number 9

1940

Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player and coach. Life path number 9

1940

Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds). Life path number 9

1941

Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland. Life path number 1

1942

Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic. Life path number 2

1942

Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster. Life path number 2

1942

Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic. Life path number 2

1942

Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970). Life path number 2

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 101 – 120.

1943

Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (d. 2015). Life path number 3

1944

Frances D’Souza, Baroness D’Souza, English academic and politician. Life path number 22

1944

Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy. Life path number 22

1944

Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor and photographer. Life path number 22

1945

Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009). Life path number 5

1945

Richard Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5

1945

Robert Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5

1945

Margaret Hassan, Irish-Iraqi aid worker (d. 2004). Life path number 5

1946

Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor. Life path number 6

1946

Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014). Life path number 6

1946

Hayley Mills, English actress and singer. Life path number 6

1946

Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999). Life path number 6

1947

Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997). Life path number 7

1947

Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1947

Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer. Life path number 7

1947

Herbert Mullin, American serial killer. Life path number 7

1947

Cindy Pickett, American actress. Life path number 7

1947

Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1947

Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter. Life path number 7

1947

James Woods, American actor and producer. Life path number 7

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 121 – 140.

1948

Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 8

1949

Geoff Bodine, American race car driver. Life path number 9

1950

Paul Callery, Australian footballer. Life path number 1

1950

Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer (d. 1992). Life path number 1

1950

Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer. Life path number 1

1950

Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer. Life path number 1

1951

Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach. Life path number 2

1951

Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Life path number 2

1953

Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22

1954

Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer. Life path number 5

1956

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The 1913 Armory Show: America’s First Art War

William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The Wave, 1896. Oil on canvas; 47.64 × 63.19 inches (121 × 160.5 cm). Private collection.

America has been an epicenter of avant-garde art for a long time, but this was not always the case. The reasons for the rise of the American art world are plural and complex. In part, this rise resulted from a mix of post-World War II affluence, which created collectors, and Cold War politics, which weaponized American modernism and deployed it as proof of cultural superiority. But the American art world’s claim to center stage also rested on America adopting and modifying European avant-garde styles. If, as Serge Guilbaut put it, New York “stole the idea of modern art,”1 it had to first know about modern art. Perhaps no single event marked as epochal a moment in America’s avant-garde awakening as the International Exhibition of Modern Art held at New York’s 69th Regiment Armory in 1913. Tellingly, the Armory Show (as it is popularly known) did not just jolt young American artists into a new dialogue with experimental forms; it also polarized the American public and started what would be a long and loud battle, between people who claimed to be championing the most excellent and advanced artistic ideas, and others who thought those people were obviously, painfully, full of it.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, artists were trained at academies, in which idealistic realism reigned supreme. Academic art tended to promote softened, perfected forms and to render the artist’s hand invisible. Many European artists of the mid-1800s rebelled against academic art, but in America at the turn of the century, academic styles and modes of exhibition were still strong. So, in 1911, four young artists who were fed up with the academy—Jerome Myers, Elmer MacRae, Walt Kuhn, and Henry Fitch Taylor—began meeting at the Madison Gallery in New York to discuss new strategies for exhibiting art in the United States.

That group eventually gave birth to the Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS), composed of young anti-academy artists. In 1913, AAPS organized the Armory Show. By this time, the purview of AAPS had expanded to include bringing the newest European art to American audiences. The president of AAPS opened the show with these words:

The members of this association have shown you that American artists—young American artists, that is—do not dread, and have no need to dread, the ideas or culture of Europe. They believe that in the domain of art only the best should rule. This exhibition will be epoch making in the history of American art. Tonight will be the red-letter night in the history of not only of American but of all modern art.2

The members of the association felt that it was time the American people had an opportunity to see and judge for themselves concerning the work of the Europeans who are creating a new art.

So, what would Americans make of this new art, when given the opportunity to “judge for themselves”?

Paul Cezanne. An Old Woman with a Rosary, 1895–96. Oil on canvas; 31.7 x 25.8 inches (80.6 x 65.5 cm). Courtesy of the National Gallery, London.

On display at the Armory Show were more than twelve hundred works of art by more than three hundred artists from the United States and abroad. There were newly minted Old Masters: Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin were well represented. But the work that captured people’s imagination—and, in some cases, enraged them—was of a more recent vintage. Contemporary avant-garde movements got the most attention, and it was the disorienting intensity and spatial decomposition found in Cubism that was the talk of the town. One painting in particular became almost synonymous with the succès de scandale of the Armory Show: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912), a painting by French artist Marcel Duchamp, who, in later years, would develop quite a reputation for attracting adversarial attention to himself.

Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912. Oil on canvas; 57 7/8 x 35 1/8 inches (147 x 89.2 cm). © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp.

Why did Nude stand out from the show and from other Cubist work there? First, its pictorial fragmentation was more violent and jagged than other similar paintings; its lines were closely knitted and overlapping, resembling sketch-work as much as traditional brushstrokes. While other Cubist works of the period stressed the multiplicity of a single moment—which is to say, an artist might render a subject from multiple angles—Nude combined this strategy with a Futurist-inflected temporality, simultaneously representing multiple moments in time. So, it played with at least two different kinds of psychic torsion. In other words, the painting appears to portray a woman at many, various stages of walking down a set of stairs and does so from many, various angles. This way of dealing with time aligns the painting with Eadweard Muybridge‘s (and others’) early photographic motion studies and, by extension, with cinema. But Duchamp combined this almost diagrammatic linearity with strategies of visual obstruction, placing the work uncomfortably between legibility and illegibility: now you see it, now you don’t. In a way, Nude angered people because they understood it too well, but also not enough: what is really frustrating to a viewer is a false start, not a foregone conclusion. The bottom half of the painting contains at least six triangular shapes that can easily be seen as bent legs; the middle section has five ovals that call to mind hip bones. But while you might be able to make out a face in the upper right-hand corner, the angular chaos in the upper left section of the painting cannot be easily synthesized. By rhyming this mindful disorientation with photography and cinema, Duchamp seemed to be saying something about modern life: maybe perception and cognition were changing at the rate of technology. Or the speed of light.

The most famous condemnation of Nude drew on a peculiarly modern metaphor to make its point. Julian Street called Nude “an explosion in a shingle factory.”3 This was by no means the only creative put-down hurled at Duchamp; Nude was variously described as “a lot of disguised golf clubs and bags,” “an assortment of half-made leather saddles,” an “elevated railroad stairway in ruins after an earthquake,” a “dynamic suit of Japanese armor,” a “pack of brown cards in a nightmare,” an “orderly heap of broken violins,” and an “academic painting of an artichoke.”4 Of all these, it was “explosion in a shingle factory”—linking together two particularly modern things, explosions and factories—that stuck and is often used to refer to Duchamp’s painting even today.

While it was the work that got the single most attention, Nude was not alone in drawing heat. The New York Times opened its review of the Armory Show with a few obviously rhetorical questions:

What does the work of the Cubists and Futurists mean? Have these “progressives” really outstripped all the rest of us, glimpsed the future, and used a form of artistic expression that is simply esoteric to the great laggard public? Is their work a conspicuous milestone in the progress of art? Or is it junk?5

Francis Picabia. Dances at the Spring, 1912. Oil on canvas; 47 7/16 x 47 1/2 inches (120.5 x 120.6 cm) © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

Readers wrote to local and city papers, calling the art “nonsense” and declaiming its “amorphous conceits.”6 Gertrude Stein, as a champion of some of the most reviled art, came in for a drubbing many times. One writer complained that Stein’s criticism sounded like a drunk “who is suddenly called upon to make an after-dinner speech.”7 The Chicago Tribune published this poem:

I called the canvas Cow with cud And hung it on the line, Altho’ to me ’twas vague as mud ‘Twas clear to Gertrude Stein8

Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, attempted to be evenhanded, writing in Outlook magazine, “The exhibitors are quite right as to the need of showing to our people in this manner the art forces which of late have been at work in Europe, forces which cannot be ignored.”9 After this brief nod of approval, he went on, “This does not mean that I in the least accept the view that these men take of the European extremists whose pictures are here exhibited.”10 In other words, Americans should keep track of the European avant-gardes, but by no means approve of them.

During the month Nude was on view, hardly a day went by without a story about the Armory Show appearing in the press. As a result, attendance swelled. Numerous writers could not help but compare the show—and whatever you think of the art, you cannot deny a certain aptness in the comparison—to productions by P. T. Barnum. The Armory Show became a circus.

On March 29, 1913, two weeks after the show closed, The Literary Digest published a collection of letters to editors around the country under the title, “The Mob as Art Critic.” [PDF] Some of the letters are astounding, if only in terms of the amount of energy people were willing to put into them. One man, claiming to be a scientist, worked his prose into brilliant contortions, fuming about the scientific language used by artists and critics favoring Cubism. He wrote:

These “sensations” we hear about “reproducing” are impossible of reproduction—even in the mind, still more on canvas—for when they are gone they are gone forever. What takes their place is not a sensation at all but a memory, and a memory is not a sensation. The sensation experienced upon being outside of a good dinner is gone, and it can not be reproduced by remembering it (nor painting its portrait), luckily for cooks. And just as a memory of the sensation—or “thrill”—of a dinner presents none of the satisfactions of the sensation itself, neither do the memories of any other sort of thrills.11

Georges Braque. Violin: “Mozart/Kubelick,” 1912. Oil on canvas; 18.1 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm). Private collection.

The supreme irony of the passage is that, with its incoherent insistence and repetition and recoding of familiar nouns, it ends up sounding a lot like a poem by Gertrude Stein. The phrase, “What takes their place is not a sensation at all but a memory, and a memory is not a sensation,” could well have come straight from any of Stein’s most impenetrable texts (for example: “You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinarily there”12).

One concerned citizen was kinder to the scientific language being used to describe this modern art. In fact, she thought the art should be renamed “sensationalism . . . not in the popular sense, but in the scientific application of the term.”13 She went on:

For these artists are endeavoring to give a pictorial representation of the physical reaction to sense stimuli, the cellular and nervous reactions which carry the messages of sense perception to the brain. They attempt to diagram the shiver which indicates to you that you are cold; the nerve shock and accelerated heart action which mean fear.14

Armory Show NYC, Interior, 1913. Photo by Percy Rainford

While she granted there was skill involved, she ultimately thought the art should be “more appropriately placed in the lecture-room of a professor of psychology than in an art-gallery”; her ultimate complaint, in the form of a question, was, “But is it beautiful?”15 She thought not. That question would be echoed eighty years later, in 1993, when CBS ran an infamous j’accuse against the contemporary art establishment in a 60 Minutes segment called, “Yes . . . But Is It Art?” The title of segment not only played on widespread public suspicion of the arts (most people would answer, “No, it is not”), but also recalled the ontological vertigo that had overtaken the art world around the time of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), an industrially produced urinal he re-christened as an art object.

Coming at a time when the National Endowment for the Arts was gearing up to battle Congress for its very life, that episode of 60 Minutes touched a nerve both in the art world and outside it. America was fed up with contemporary art, and contemporary artists, for their part, were fed up with America. People had drawn the battle lines back in 1913, with the reaction to the Armory Show.

But the story is more complicated than that.

Something interesting happened in the art world during the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. The Surrealist concern with the articulation of psychologically repressed desires—such as violent sexuality and sexualized violence—developed into a widespread concern with the articulation of systematically repressed identities: queer, black, Chicano, bisexual, transgendered, diasporic, postcolonial, and so on. The reaction to this art—art that embraced what came to be called “identity politics”—was of a different nature than the reaction provoked by the Armory Show. Many critics during the culture wars actually used formal incomprehension to mask a greater understanding of a work’s real meaning. Critics of, say, queer art did not fundamentally puzzle over what they were looking at. And this is where we are today.

The virulent homophobia unleashed on the National Portrait Gallery’s Hide/Seek exhibit by the Cybercast News Service last November is an illustration of how much the debate about art has changed in the past hundred years. In some ways less insular, contemporary art is also less insulated from the day’s most divisive issues. It feels almost quaint to look back on a time when what angered people about art was that it violated the rules of perspective and of the unity of time and place, or that it unbound color from object. If these battles weren’t always pretty—for they were frequently fueled by class resentment—they still seem, relative to contemporary circumstances, somewhat bloodless.

1. Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985). 2. Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show (New York: Abbeville Press, 1988), 43. 3. Brown, 137. 4. All quoted ibid. 5. Kenyon Cox, “Cubists and Futurists Are Making Insanity Pay,” New York Times, March 16, 1913, VI, 1. 6. “The Mob as Art Critic,” Literary Digest 46, no. 13 (March 29, 1913): 708. 7. Robert Tuttle Morris, Microbes and Men (New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1915), 261. 8. All quoted in Brown, 138. 9. Theodore Roosevelt, “A Layman’s Point of View,” The Outlook, March 29, 1913, 718. 10. Ibid. 11. “The Mob as Art Critic,” 708. 12. Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography (1937; reprint Boston: Exact Change, 2004), 38. 13. “The Mob as Art Critic,” 708. 14. Ibid. 15. “The Mob as Art Critic,” 709.

Editor’s note: This essay was originally published on Art21.org in November 2011.

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BOB HOPE'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH LUCY

September 23, 1989

Produced & Directed by Ellen Brown

Written by Robert L. Mills, Martha Bolton, Jeffrey Barron

Lucille Ball (Archival Footage) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in April 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon, which was not a success and was canceled after just 13 episodes.

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Bob Hope (Himself, Host) was born Lesley Townes Hope in England in 1903. During his extensive career in virtually all forms of media he received five honorary Academy Awards. In 1945 Desi Arnaz was the orchestra leader on Bob Hope’s radio show. Ball and Hope did four films together. He appeared as himself on the season 6 opener of “I Love Lucy.” He did a brief cameo in a 1964 episode of “The Lucy Show.” When Lucille Ball moved to NBC in 1980, Hope appeared on her welcome special. He died in 2003 at age 100.

George Burns (Himself) was born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City in January 1896. He married Gracie Allen in 1926 and the two formed an act (Burns and Allen) that toured in vaudeville. They had their own hit show “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” first on radio then on CBS TV from 1950 to 1958, airing concurrently with “I Love Lucy.” He appeared as himself on “The Lucy Show” (S5;E1) in 1966 as well as doing a cameo on “Lucy and Jack Benny's Biography” (HL S3;E11) in 1970. After Allen’s death in 1964, Burns reinvented himself as a solo act. In 1976 he won an Oscar for playing one of The Sunshine Boys. He was also known for playing the title role in Oh, God! (1978) and its 1984 sequel Oh, God! You Devil. Burns and Ball appeared on many TV variety and award shows together. He died at the age of 100.

Danny Thomas (Himself) was born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz in 1912. His screen career began in 1947 but he was most famous for appearing on television in the long-running show “Make Room for Daddy” (1953-64), which was shot at Desilu Studios. When the series moved from ABC to CBS in 1957, Thomas and the cast starred in a rare TV cross-over with “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” titled “Lucy Makes Room for Danny.” In return, Lucy and Desi turned up on Thomas’s show. Fifteen years later, Lucy and Danny did yet another cross-over when Lucy Carter of “Here’s Lucy” appeared on “Make Room for Granddaddy.” In addition, Thomas also played an aging artist on a 1973 episode of “Here’s Lucy.” Thomas is fondly remembered for founding St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is also father to actress Marlo Thomas. He died in 1999.

Betty White (Herself) was born in 1922 and has the longest career of any female entertainer. She is probably best known as Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls” and Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Although White and Ball never acted together, the two appeared several times on “Password,” one of Lucy's favorite game shows. It was originally hosted by White's husband, Alan Ludden. She last shared the “Password” panel with Lucy in November 1988, just six months before Ball's death.

Kirk Cameron (Himself) was the star of ABC's hit show “Growing Pains.” He appeared with Lucille Ball on three other Bob Hope specials from 1986 to 1988.

Les Brown and His Band of Renown (Orchestra) were the musical guests on the 1956 “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” that satirized “I Love Lucy” with Hope playing Ricky Ricardo.

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Doris Singleton (as Doris from “The Bob Hope Christmas Special” ~ December 9, 1973)

Gary Morton (as Himself from “The Bob Hope Christmas Special” ~ December 9, 1973)

Bobby Jellison (as a Gangster from “The Bob Hope Show” ~September 24, 1962)

Desi Arnaz (as Fred Mertz from “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” ~ October 6, 1956)

Vivian Vance (as Ethel Mertz from “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” ~ October 6, 1956)

William Frawley (as Captain Blystone from “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” ~ October 6, 1956)

Vitto Scotti (as Carlo from The Facts of Life)

Peter Leeds (as Thompson from The Facts of Life)

Joe Ploski (as Man at Drive-In from The Facts of Life)

Mary Jane Saunders (as Martha Jane Smith from Sorrowful Jones)

This special aired on a Saturday evening at 10pm, traditionally a difficult time for television programs. Luckily, its lead-in was the season 5 premiere of the phenomenally successful “The Golden Girls” (also featuring Betty White) which led the evening with a 23.5 share. “Bob Hope's Love Affair With Lucy” came in second, with a respectable 19.3. It was up against College Football on ABC. Because the special was 90 minutes and started on the half hour, its competition on CBS was the last half hour of “Tour of Duty” (season 3 premiere) and the series premiere of “Saturday Night With Connie Chung.”

Because this special aired on NBC, no scenes from any of Lucille Ball's CBS sitcoms (or “Life with Lucy” on ABC) were included. Kirk Cameron was an ABC star, but worked on several of Hope's NBC specials. Although Betty White never acted with Lucille Ball, the pair enjoyed an off-stage friendship. White also was a perfect tie-in to keep “The Golden Girls” fans tuned after the sitcom's season opener. Although Burns and Thomas both worked on screen with Lucy, no clips of their collaborations were used. Also conspicuously missing is Gale Gordon, who was part of Lucille Ball's career since her days on radio.

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BOB HOPE

The special opens with a montage of clips of Lucille Ball's entrances on Bob Hope's specials, underscored by the “I Love Lucy Theme.” After a quick commercial break, Bob Hope enters to the sounds of his theme song “Thanks for the Memory.”

Hope: “Lucy handled the media and television like she handled everything else, with grace and style and a richness of color that didn't need any help from the peacock.”

The ‘peacock’ Hope is referring to is the NBC logo. Lucille Ball left CBS for NBC in 1980, but the move resulted in only one TV special (“Lucy Moves To NBC”), one failed pilot (“Bungle Abbey”) and multiple appearances on Bob Hope's specials.

The first clip in the 90-minute tribute is from “The Bob Hope Christmas Special” (December 9, 1973). Ball and Hope play themselves in a sketch about a misunderstanding surrounding an expensive ring he's bought for his wife, but sent to Lucy's home for safe keeping. Naturally, Lucy thinks it's for her. The clip features appearances by long-time Lucy character actress Doris Singleton and Lucy's husband Gary Morton.

DANNY THOMAS

Danny Thomas calls Lucy his 'landlady' because “Make Room for Daddy” was shot at Desilu Studios. He tells a funny anecdote from when Ball appeared on his short-lived sitcom “The Practice” in 1976.

Thomas: “When I worked on her show, she did most of the directing. And when she did my show... she did most of the directing.”

Thomas talks about of their working relationship. He says that despite their great friendship, Lucy would not divulge her age, even to him.

In a voice over, Bob Hope introduces a black and white clip of a sketch from “The Bob Hope Show” (October 24, 1962). In it Lucy plays a District Attorney and Bob a gangster named Bugsy Hope. The 1962 clip edits out a bit that was frighteningly prescient. A spray of gunfire comes through the window and Lucy remarks “Just what I wanted, a Jackie Kennedy hairdo.” Considering the tragic events of November 1963, this clearly could not be aired in 1989. Another change involves music royalties: in the original, Lucy makes her entrance into Bugsy's flat to the tune of David Rose's “The Stripper” (released in 1962) but in 1989 it is replace by a similar sounding piece of music.

Bugsy Hope: “I don't usually go for flatfeet, but the rest of you kind of makes up for it.” DA Lucy: “I don't usually go for hoods, but you could use one.”

In the sketch, Hope makes Lucy laugh and drop character several times, a rarity for Ball.

KIRK CAMERON

Kirk Cameron (who had just turned 18) says that the first time he met Lucille Ball on a May 1987 Bob Hope show at an Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. On a subsequent Hope special, Lucy needed a stand-in to take a pie in the face and chose Cameron. He was unsure if it was an honor or payback for making her wait outside her dressing room to meet him the year before.

Cameron: “I think that I speak for a lot of people my age when I say that I love Lucy.”

The next clip is the satire of “I Love Lucy” featuring the entire original cast (plus Hope and Tommy the trained seal). In “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” (October 6, 1956), Hope introduces the sketch as himself wondering what it would be like if he had married Lucy instead of Desi. It is presented in its original black and white, although it was later colorized for a video release. Not coincidentally, five days earlier the sixth and final season of “I Love Lucy” began airing with “Lucy and Bob Hope” (S6;E1).

GEORGE BURNS

George Burns affectionately recalls how Lucy was in show business 24 hours a day. He says that he was married to a comedienne (Gracie Fields) but she couldn’t have been more different than Lucy.

Burns: “Lucy was all of show business wrapped up in this charming lady.”

He remembers an appearance with Lucy when they sang “Lazy” by Irving Berlin. He sings a few bars. Burns says that he's booked to play the Palladium in London when he turns 100. Although he did live to 100, his health declined at age 98 and this booking never came to pass.

Bob's voice over introduces a couple of scenes from The Facts of Life, a black and white film that Hope and Ball did for United Artists in 1960. In the scene Larry (Hope) and Kitty (Lucy) are on a fishing boat remembering old times when they realized they went to the same high school together. In the second clip, Kitty and Larry realize they can't play cards without their glasses, but they can't kiss with them on either. Finally, Larry and Kitty are kissing at the drive-in when they are spotted by the local dry cleaner. Lucy had just finished playing Lucy Ricardo, with the final episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” airing in April 1960.

BETTY WHITE

To the accompaniment of “Thank You for Being a Friend” Golden Girl Betty White is introduced. She lists three-word TV titles of the '50s, “Our Miss Brooks,” “I Married Joan,” “Life with Elizabeth,” “Father Knows Best,” and “I Love Lucy.” White remembers that she shot her second series “Date With the Angels” at Desilu Studios and that is where she first met Lucy.

White: “I can still see her. Tall and built and she had a navy blue dress on with white polka dots and this hair that made it look like her head was on fire.”

White credits Lucille Ball with filming comedy using the three camera system and a studio audience. White's mother Tess and Lucy's mother Dede were great friends. Betty recalls the last time she saw Lucy, a week before she went into the hospital. She says she can still recall Lucy's deep and abundant laughter that night. White let's the audience know that they shoot “The Golden Girls” at the old Desilu lot.

Bob's voice introduces a clip from the film Fancy Pants (1950) with Bob Hope as Humphrey the butler and Lucy as Agatha, the daughter of the man he works for. This movie was made just before Lucille Ball got pregnant with her daughter Lucie, and before “I Love Lucy” was in development. At the time, Ball was starring on radio in “My Favorite Husband.”

Next is a dramatic scene from Sorrowful Jones, a film Hope and Ball did in 1949. Ball played Gladys and Hope was Sorrowful (aka Humphrey).

A clip from “Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC” (May 16, 1988) has Lucy singing “Comedy Ain't No Joke” by Cy Coleman and James Lipton.

This leads directly into Lucy as Sophie Tucker singing “Some of These Days” from “Bob Hope's All Star Comedy Tribute to Vaudeville” (May 25, 1977).

Lucy and Bob sing “I Remember It Well” by Frederick Loewe from “Bob Hope's High-Flying Birthday Extravaganza” (May 25, 1987). The song (originally from the film Gigi) has special lyrics with references to their legendary partnership including Fancy Pants and Facts of Life.

Finally, a clip of Lucy and Bob's last appearance together at the 61st Annual Academy Awards telecast (March 29, 1989). This was also Lucille Ball’s last public appearance.

In his final remarks, Hope works in mentions of two of Lucy's most memorable comedy bits from “I Love Lucy”: “Hollywood at Last!” (S4;E16) and “Lucy's Italian Movie” (S5;E23).

Hope: “Whether her nose caught fire or she was stomping grapes, Lucy got us all to laugh. Thanks Lucille, for making life a ball.”

The closing credits appear over stills of Lucy and Bob on TV, some of which were not included in the special.

This Date in Lucy History – September 23rd

“Mod, Mod Lucy” (HL S1;E1) – September 23, 1974

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“This above ALL: to thine own self be true.”

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April 18 Famous Birthdays (SOURCE: BIRTHDAY NINJAs)

The zodiac sign of a person born on April 18 is Aries ♈.

The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 1 – 20.

1480

Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519). Life path number 8

1503

Henry II of Navarre, (d. 1555). Life path number 22

1590

Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617). Life path number 1

1605

Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674). Life path number 7

1648

Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (d. 1717). Life path number 5

1666

Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747). Life path number 5

1740

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (d. 1810). Life path number 7

1759

Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823). Life path number 8

1771

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820). Life path number 2

1772

David Ricardo, English economist and politician (d. 1823). Life path number 3

1794

William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863). Life path number 7

1797

Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877). Life path number 1

1813

James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865). Life path number 8

1819

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874). Life path number 5

1819

Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895). Life path number 5

1838

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912). Life path number 6

1857

Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938). Life path number 7

1857

Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935). Life path number 7

1858

Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962). Life path number 8

1863

Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942). Life path number 22

1863

Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920). Life path number 22

1864

Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916). Life path number 5

1874

Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941). Life path number 6

1874

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (d. 1938). Life path number 6

1877

Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950). Life path number 9

1879

Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962). Life path number 2

1880

Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968). Life path number 3

1882

Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964). Life path number 5

1882

Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977). Life path number 5

1884

Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937). Life path number 7

1888

Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979). Life path number 2

1889

Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970). Life path number 3

1893

Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944). Life path number 7

1896

Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948). Life path number 1

1897

Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001). Life path number 2

1897

Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish skier (d. 1975). Life path number 2

1898

Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981). Life path number 3

1901

Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967). Life path number 6

1901

László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975). Life path number 6

1902

Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (d. 1972). Life path number 7

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1902

Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981). Life path number 7

1904

Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981). Life path number 9

1905

Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990). Life path number 1

1905

George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998). Life path number 1

1907

Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995). Life path number 3

1911

Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman and race car driver (d. 1992). Life path number 7

1911

Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (d. 2011). Life path number 7

1914

Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014). Life path number 1

1915

Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960). Life path number 2

1916

Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984). Life path number 3

1916

Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005). Life path number 3

1917

Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947). Life path number 22

1917

Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981). Life path number 22

1918

Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014). Life path number 5

1918

André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958). Life path number 5

1918

Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 5

1918

Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded ”CliffsNotes” (d. 2001). Life path number 5

1918

Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004). Life path number 5

1919

Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012). Life path number 6

1919

Virginia O’Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 6

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 61 – 80.

1920

John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1921

Jean Richard, French actor and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 8

1922

Barbara Hale, American actress. Life path number 9

1922

Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (d. 2000). Life path number 9

1923

Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013). Life path number 1

1923

Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, English engineer and politician (d. 2015). Life path number 1

1924

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005). Life path number 2

1924

Henry Hyde, American commander, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007). Life path number 2

1924

Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2015). Life path number 2

1925

Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014). Life path number 3

1925

Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005). Life path number 3

1926

Doug Insole, English cricketer. Life path number 22

1926

Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994). Life path number 22

1927

Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008). Life path number 5

1927

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013). Life path number 5

1927

Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 2015). Life path number 5

1928

Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015). Life path number 6

1928

Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014). Life path number 6

1929

Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician. Life path number 7

1930

Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor and singer. Life path number 8

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 81 – 100.

1931

Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013). Life path number 9

1934

James Drury, American actor. Life path number 3

1934

George Shirley, American tenor and educator. Life path number 3

1935

Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013). Life path number 22

1935

Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22

1936

Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer. Life path number 5

1936

Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997). Life path number 5

1936

Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver. Life path number 5

1937

Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009). Life path number 6

1937

Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian long jumper and heptathlete (d. 2011). Life path number 6

1937

Teddy Taylor, Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. Life path number 6

1939

Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 2010). Life path number 8

1940

Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Life path number 9

1940

Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player and coach. Life path number 9

1940

Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds). Life path number 9

1941

Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland. Life path number 1

1942

Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic. Life path number 2

1942

Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster. Life path number 2

1942

Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic. Life path number 2

1942

Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970). Life path number 2

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 101 – 120.

1943

Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (d. 2015). Life path number 3

1944

Frances D’Souza, Baroness D’Souza, English academic and politician. Life path number 22

1944

Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy. Life path number 22

1944

Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor and photographer. Life path number 22

1945

Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009). Life path number 5

1945

Richard Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5

1945

Robert Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5

1945

Margaret Hassan, Irish-Iraqi aid worker (d. 2004). Life path number 5

1946

Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor. Life path number 6

1946

Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014). Life path number 6

1946

Hayley Mills, English actress and singer. Life path number 6

1946

Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999). Life path number 6

1947

Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997). Life path number 7

1947

Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1947

Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer. Life path number 7

1947

Herbert Mullin, American serial killer. Life path number 7

1947

Cindy Pickett, American actress. Life path number 7

1947

Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1947

Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter. Life path number 7

1947

James Woods, American actor and producer. Life path number 7

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 121 – 140.

1948

Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 8

1949

Geoff Bodine, American race car driver. Life path number 9

1950

Paul Callery, Australian footballer. Life path number 1

1950

Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer (d. 1992). Life path number 1

1950

Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer. Life path number 1

1950

Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer. Life path number 1

1951

Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach. Life path number 2

1951

Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Life path number 2

1953

Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22

1954

Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer. Life path number 5

1956

Eric Roberts, American actor. Life path number 7

1956

Melody Thomas Scott, American actress. Life path number 7

1957

Ian Campbell, Australian jumper. Life path number 8

1957

Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress and educator. Life path number 8

1958

Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (d. 1999). Life path number 9

1958

Karen Mayo-Chandler, English actress and model (d. 2006). Life path number 9

1958

Thomas Simaku, Albanian-English composer. Life path number 9

1958

Tarmo Teder, Estonian poet and critic. Life path number 9

1959

Susan Faludi, American journalist and author. Life path number 1

1959

Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland. Life path number 1

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 1 – 20.

1480

Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519). Life path number 8

1503

Henry II of Navarre, (d. 1555). Life path number 22

1590

Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617). Life path number 1

1605

Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674). Life path number 7

1648

Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (d. 1717). Life path number 5

1666

Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747). Life path number 5

1740

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (d. 1810). Life path number 7

1759

Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823). Life path number 8

1771

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820). Life path number 2

1772

David Ricardo, English economist and politician (d. 1823). Life path number 3

1794

William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863). Life path number 7

1797

Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877). Life path number 1

1813

James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865). Life path number 8

1819

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874). Life path number 5

1819

Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895). Life path number 5

1838

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912). Life path number 6

1857

Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938). Life path number 7

1857

Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935). Life path number 7

1858

Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962). Life path number 8

1863

Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942). Life path number 22

1863

Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920). Life path number 22

1864

Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916). Life path number 5

1874

Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941). Life path number 6

1874

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (d. 1938). Life path number 6

1877

Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950). Life path number 9

1879

Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962). Life path number 2

1880

Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968). Life path number 3

1882

Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964). Life path number 5

1882

Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977). Life path number 5

1884

Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937). Life path number 7

1888

Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979). Life path number 2

1889

Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970). Life path number 3

1893

Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944). Life path number 7

1896

Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948). Life path number 1

1897

Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001). Life path number 2

1897

Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish skier (d. 1975). Life path number 2

1898

Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981). Life path number 3

1901

Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967). Life path number 6

1901

László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975). Life path number 6

1902

Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (d. 1972). Life path number 7

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1902

Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981). Life path number 7

1904

Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981). Life path number 9

1905

Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990). Life path number 1

1905

George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998). Life path number 1

1907

Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995). Life path number 3

1911

Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman and race car driver (d. 1992). Life path number 7

1911

Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (d. 2011). Life path number 7

1914

Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014). Life path number 1

1915

Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960). Life path number 2

1916

Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984). Life path number 3

1916

Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005). Life path number 3

1917

Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947). Life path number 22

1917

Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981). Life path number 22

1918

Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014). Life path number 5

1918

André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958). Life path number 5

1918

Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 5

1918

Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded ”CliffsNotes” (d. 2001). Life path number 5

1918

Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004). Life path number 5

1919

Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012). Life path number 6

1919

Virginia O’Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 6

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 61 – 80.

1920

John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1921

Jean Richard, French actor and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 8

1922

Barbara Hale, American actress. Life path number 9

1922

Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (d. 2000). Life path number 9

1923

Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013). Life path number 1

1923

Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, English engineer and politician (d. 2015). Life path number 1

1924

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005). Life path number 2

1924

Henry Hyde, American commander, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007). Life path number 2

1924

Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2015). Life path number 2

1925

Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014). Life path number 3

1925

Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005). Life path number 3

1926

Doug Insole, English cricketer. Life path number 22

1926

Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994). Life path number 22

1927

Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008). Life path number 5

1927

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013). Life path number 5

1927

Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 2015). Life path number 5

1928

Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015). Life path number 6

1928

Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014). Life path number 6

1929

Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician. Life path number 7

1930

Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor and singer. Life path number 8

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 81 – 100.

1931

Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013). Life path number 9

1934

James Drury, American actor. Life path number 3

1934

George Shirley, American tenor and educator. Life path number 3

1935

Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013). Life path number 22

1935

Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22

1936

Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer. Life path number 5

1936

Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997). Life path number 5

1936

Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver. Life path number 5

1937

Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009). Life path number 6

1937

Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian long jumper and heptathlete (d. 2011). Life path number 6

1937

Teddy Taylor, Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. Life path number 6

1939

Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 2010). Life path number 8

1940

Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Life path number 9

1940

Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player and coach. Life path number 9

1940

Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds). Life path number 9

1941

Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland. Life path number 1

1942

Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic. Life path number 2

1942

Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster. Life path number 2

1942

Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic. Life path number 2

1942

Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970). Life path number 2

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 101 – 120.

1943

Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (d. 2015). Life path number 3

1944

Frances D’Souza, Baroness D’Souza, English academic and politician. Life path number 22

1944

Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy. Life path number 22

1944

Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor and photographer. Life path number 22

1945

Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009). Life path number 5

1945

Richard Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5

1945

Robert Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5

1945

Margaret Hassan, Irish-Iraqi aid worker (d. 2004). Life path number 5

1946

Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor. Life path number 6

1946

Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014). Life path number 6

1946

Hayley Mills, English actress and singer. Life path number 6

1946

Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999). Life path number 6

1947

Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997). Life path number 7

1947

Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1947

Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer. Life path number 7

1947

Herbert Mullin, American serial killer. Life path number 7

1947

Cindy Pickett, American actress. Life path number 7

1947

Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013). Life path number 7

1947

Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter. Life path number 7

1947

James Woods, American actor and producer. Life path number 7

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The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 121 – 140.

1948

Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 8

1949

Geoff Bodine, American race car driver. Life path number 9

1950

Paul Callery, Australian footballer. Life path number 1

1950

Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer (d. 1992). Life path number 1

1950

Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer. Life path number 1

1950

Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer. Life path number 1

1951

Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach. Life path number 2

1951

Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Life path number 2

1953

Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22

1954

Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer. Life path number 5

1956

Eric Roberts, American actor. Life path number 7

1956

Melody Thomas Scott, American actress. Life path number 7

1957

Ian Campbell, Australian jumper. Life path number 8

1957

Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress and educator. Life path number 8

1958

Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (d. 1999). Life path number 9

1958

Karen Mayo-Chandler, English actress and model (d. 2006). Life path number 9

1958

Thomas Simaku, Albanian-English composer. Life path number 9

1958

Tarmo Teder, Estonian poet and critic. Life path number 9

1959

Susan Faludi, American journalist and author. Life path number 1

1959

Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland. Life path number 1