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Setsuko Hara, June 17, 1920 – September 5, 2015.
Happy Birthday George Harrison // February 25, 1943.
I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonizing with a greater power.
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Neve Campbell; by Rankin c. 2002
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Happy birthday Clara Bow! | July 29 1905 - September 27 1965.
"Fame hasn’t given me everything. I hope to marry some day. I would rather marry a man with a good disposition than a man who is good looking. I seldom dance in public for fear of causing comment. Picture people should keep their married lives private. Some day I want to direct my own pictures. I am afraid of love."
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIRECTOR WONG KAR WAI!!
Behind the scenes of Days of being Wild
Wong Kar Wai & Leslie
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“I was called for a test, simply a silent test just to see how the two of us in costume would look together. And that’s when I first met him [Errol Flynn]. And I walked onto the set and they said: ‘Would you please stand next to Mr. Flynn?’ and I saw him…. Oh, my….. oh, my…. s-s-struck dumb. And I knew it was what the French call a ‘coup de foudre.’ And, uh, so I took my position next to him; I was very, very formal with him, because that’s the way you were in those days — we’d never met. And we just stood there next to each other…. Oh!”
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“I like who I am now. Other people may not. I’m comfortable. I feel freer now. I don’t want growing older to matter to me.”
♥ Happy 63rd Birthday, Meryl Streep! (June 22, 1949) ♥
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Graveyard Dream Blues | Bessie Smith
Went to Bessie’s grave today to put down roses for her birthday and found that I wasn’t the only one to remember. There was a jar of pickled pig’s feet and an empty beer bottle with very bright fake flowers. I wish I caught who put them there, because they’re someone I’d like to know. It’s nice to have your birthday remembered 75 years after your death. Even though she died in 1937 her grave was unmarked until 1970 when Janis Joplin, who idolized Bessie, and Juanita Green, who as a child had done housework for Smith, paid for her tombstone. Ironically two months later Janis died. Dory Previn wrote a song about it. Dory Previn ironically (again) just got a tombstone of her own two months ago.
Anyhow, Happy Birthday!
“Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.”—Bessie Smith
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Ka Shin Kwan (May 19, 1939)
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor aka Elizabeth Taylor | February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011
I have often have wondered what kind of a person I would be today if I did not have these enormous guilts — if everything had gone easily and I had not made such horrific mistakes. I think I would have been the most awful, pontifical goody two shoes. I was really so smug, so sweet, so good, so spoiled — so intolerant of anybody else’s downfall. But tragedy, mistakes, and shame for your mistakes cannot leave you untouched. All the superficial things that one gave so much value to before — money, luxury, indulging in whims — calamity makes them seem so incidental. I swear to God I’d be just as happy living with Richard and the kids in a shack. And I treat the happiness I have now with great respect, great appreciation, because I know how fragile and precarious it is — how easily it can go.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH!
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Happy Birthday Greta Lovisa Gustafsson | September 18, 1905 - April 15, 1990
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980)