Maurice Chevalier sang Thank Heaven for Little Girls. But this week I''ve changed the words to thank heaven for John Logie Baird. If he hadn''t invented the television I don''t know how I''d have got ...
01.15.2021 Mirror.co.uk and 1 sitesWhile visuals are a huge part of what ultimately defines movies, it is the combination of imagery and sound that completes the full cinematic experience. Even before the advent of "talking pictures" i...
01.16.2021 Newsweek.comPolitics: Death: Marie Magdalene “Marlene” Dietrich[1] (/mɑːrˈleɪnə ˈdiːtrɪk/, German: [maʁˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç] (About this soundlisten); 27 December 1901 - 6 May 1992)[2] was a German-born American[3][4]...
01.19.2021 Emanuellevy.comRoman Holiday 1953 Directed by William Wyler. Utterly enchanting. On a state visit to Rome, young crown princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) from an unnamed country, manages to slip out of her embassy hoping...
01.16.2021 Womanaroundtown.comA FAMOUS GROUSE VARIOUS warnings appeared on social media over the so-called festive season that the New Year should not be celebrated as an end to the misfortunes of the previous 12 months. Several of these memes had as their theme bubonic plague and the Black Death. As the Wife of Bath herself may have put it: "Well, 1346 was a queynte of a year. Here''s to 1347! ''" According to an item in The Times, the joke may have been started by one Jonathan Healey, a history fellow at Oxford. It was he ...
01.13.2021 Politicsweb.co.zaThere must be plenty of us still alive who remember Dubble Bubble gum. It debuted before World War II, was unavailable for a while after 1942, and came roaring back in 1950. Bubble gum sales reps, jus...
01.13.2021 Vnews.comPrague uncovered: Palác Lucerna quietly celebrates a century as a cultural hubOne of Prague''s iconic spaces is celebrating its 100th anniversary, though due to current restrictions the space is sadly...
01.15.2021 Expats.cz