Billie Holiday at Town Hall, New York City, 1948 Framed Art Print
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Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nicknamed Lady Day, Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and song writer that could stop traffic with her voice. She got intimate with songs and music the way most people get intimate with one another. She co-wrote several songs that have gone down in jazz history, notably “God Bless the Child”, “Don’t Explain”, and “Lady Sings the Blues”. She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by others, including “Easy Living” and “Strange Fruit”.

She’s often remembered as the lovely lady with a gardenia in her hair belting out songs like nobody’s business.

Sadly, as was the case with quite a few of the stars from the past, drugs were Billie Holiday’s undoing. She was arrested several times due to an addiction she never overcame. She was even arrested on her death bed – literally. Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times, who had partly written the sleeve notes for the album The Essential Billie Holiday, described her death:

“Billie Holiday died in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death, which, like her life, was disorderly and pitiful. She had been strikingly beautiful, but she was wasted physically to a small, grotesque caricature of herself. The worms of every kind of excess – drugs were only one – had eaten her. … The likelihood exists that among the last thoughts of this cynical, sentimental, profane, generous and greatly talented woman of 44 was the belief that she was to be arraigned the following morning. She would have been, eventually, although possibly not that quickly. In any case, she removed herself finally from the jurisdiction of any court here below.”

An incredibly tragic and sad ending for a woman who left a beautiful mark on our musical history. She deserved better – what a shame that she didn’t realize it.

To learn more about Billie Holiday, buy her autobiography on Amazon: Lady Sings the Blues.

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Ah, lady Audrey – I love her so.

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This is one of the greatest quotes about Marilyn Monroe I’ve ever read. It’s by someone who knew her best, her ex-husband Arthur Miller: To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.

Love that.

To get an idea of just how intelligent and witty Marilyn Monroe was, check out the great Marilyn Monroe quotes I just posted on another blog. She had a lot more going on than most people ever gave her credit for.

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Here’s a little trivia I found fascinating. Ray Park plays “Snake Eyes” in GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. He played “Toad” in X-Men (2000) and was Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).

Ray Park has won numerous championships and medals after falling in love with martial arts at the age of 7.

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Sexy!

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Perfect gift idea (AFTER getting one for yourself, of course.)

FRONT VIEW:

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Why soooo serrrriousss about Dark Knight posters? Because they’re hot, for one thing. For another, Heath Ledger’s Joker will go down in movie history as one of the most mind-blowing performances ever. As if that’s not all, these are all collector’s items that no Heath Ledger or Batman fan would be caught without.

When this movie hits DVD, I’ll be in the front of the line – buying at least 2. Yeah, I have it bad. I know.

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We might as well admit it – even raise a mug of coffee and toast to it – 40 IS the new 30. Recently, Johnny Depp (and other 40ish actors) dominated a “Sexiest man alive” poll in Cosmo magazine. Now, gorgeous Halle Berry has added another accomplishment for the fab 40’s.

Halle Berry was named “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire magazine – a choice that’s completely impossible to find fault with. So, in her honor, today is Halle Berry Day on Hollywood Yesterday. You can’t be that fine and talented and not get recognized for it.

Did You Know?
Halle Berry was born on August 14 (my birthday as well!) in 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Halle has an older sister named Heidi but, unfortunately, the sisters are estranged.

Representing her home state of Ohio, Halle Berry won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant in 1985.

In 1986, she was the runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant.

Her first TV series was Living Dolls. On set, she earned a reputation for her tireless commitment to her craft. She became known as an actress who didn’t just “play” a role, she became the role – even after the cameras stopped rolling.

Halle Berry is a type 1 diabetic.

In high school, Halle was in the honor society, was editor of the school paper, and class president. Naturally, she also crowned prom queen.

Halle Berry was the first African American actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress.

Her amazing dress for the 2002 Oscars ceremony was voted the most popular from the first 75 years.

On Febuary 26, 2005, she showed up in person to accept the Razzie award for Worst Actress for her role as Catwoman. She was the first actress to ever do so! Accepting the award, Halle Berry smiled her beautiful smile and said “Thank you and I hope to God I never see you guys again.”

She was one of only three actresses (Faye Dunaway and Liza Minnelli) to win both the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Razzie Award for Worst Actress (And Faye Dunaway even shared her award – with Bo Derek).

Her favorite actresses are Dorothy Dandridge, Jodie Foster and Whoopi Goldberg.

The dedicated Halle refused to bathe for two weeks in preparation for a role as a crack addict in Jungle Fever (1991).

She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 3, 2007.

Halle was saved from choking (on a fig) by the best Bond ever, Pierce Brosnan, while shooting Die Another Day.

Halle and her longtime boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, became the parents of a daughter named Nahla Ariela Aubry on 16 March 2008.

Halle Berry Quotes:

“This moment is so much bigger than me, This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll… It’s for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett Smith, Angela Bassett, Vivica A. Fox… and it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance, because the door tonight has been opened.” – During her Oscar acceptance speech.

“There’s art and there’s commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It’s important to do the little movies just for the love of the art. But it’s those big movies that take you around the world and make you globally famous.”

“I want to be the next Spike Lee. I want to help other black folks to get into Hollywood and be successful in Hollywood.”

“What is my real purpose here? I’ve looked at what I do. I make believe and make movies. I entertain people and get paid for it. Sometimes it seems like such a shallow existence. How insignificant in the scheme of life.”

“I never wanted to be a model. My modeling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that’s all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.”

(While pregnant) “I am three times the girl I used to be. This is the second red carpet where I didn’t have to think about sucking in my stomach – because I can’t!”

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I’m sure you’ve seen the hilarious “Random Facts About Chuck Norris” lists. There are lots of Vin Diesel lists springing up now and they’re every bit as funny. If you’ve never seen these lists before, you’ll get the gist right away.

• If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: “I End Lives.”
• When Vin Diesel goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
• When Vin Diesel was born, the nurse said, “Holy crap! That’s Vin Diesel!” Then she had had sex with him. At that point, she was the third girl he had slept with.
• There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Vin Diesel allows to live.
• Vin Diesel once walked down the street with a massive erection. There were no survivors.
• Vin Diesel can divide by zero.
• In fine print at on the last page of the Guiness Book of World Records it notes that all world records are held by Vin Diesel, and those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone has ever come to matching him.
• Vin Diesel built this city. He built this city on rock and roll.
• Vin Diesel can look directly at nymphs, and they like it. (From http://www.masterninja.com/lists/?name=vindiesel)
• Vin Diesel is the only one who may touch The Last Unicorn.
• Vin Diesel does not just order a steak – he unhinges his jaw and eats the entire cow.
• For every Vin Diesel there is an opposite Vin Diesel. Vin Diesel heard about this and promptly destroyed his opposite self. This created a paradox that unraveled the space-time continuum. Consequently, we are currently living inside Vin Diesel’s imagination.
• Vin Diesel wears a cup not to protect himself, but to protect the players on the other team.
• Crop circles are Vin’s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the f- down.
• When Vin Diesel deletes files from his computer, he doesn’t send them to the Recycle Bin. He sends them to hell.
• Vin Diesel sleeps once every 2 weeks, for half an hour, standing up, with his eyes open, and he looks pissed off.
• The popular videogame “Doom” is based loosely around the time Satan borrowed two bucks from Vin Diesel and forgot to pay him back.
• Dairy Queen used to be Dairy King before Vin Diesel made it his bitch.
• Vin Diesel is the only one who can “try this at home.”
• The word “lesbian” derives from an old Latin phrase that roughly translates as “She who has not yet been introduced to Vin Diesel.”
• Vin Diesel doesn’t have a computer. Just a basement full of Asian kids that memorize numbers.
• In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Vin Diesel could use to kill you, including the room itself.
• Vin Diesel always asks for the same Christmas gift: A box of Smurfs and a sledgehammer.
• Vin Diesel is the reason Waldo is hiding.
• Vin Diesel can predict the shuffle of his ipod.
• When Vin Diesel gets pulled over he lets the cop off with a warning.
• Vin Diesel can watch a season of “24″ in just three hours.
• The book “Wost Case Scenario,” discusses ways to run from many different deadly animals. The page entitled “Running from Vin Diesel” simply says “Good luck.”
• If at first you don’t succeed, you must not be Vin Diesel.
• Vin Diesel doesn’t have to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Tall buildings duck under Vin Diesel.
• Vin Diesel irons his shirts while he’s still wearing them.
• Vin Diesel’s hair is too afraid of him to grow.
• Vin Diesel once talked an Amish housewife into buying a toaster.
• When the girl from “The Ring” climbed out of Vin’s TV, he stood up, cleared his throat, stretched calmly, and booted her straight back in.

Sources:
Vin Diesel Facts
Master Ninja Lists

** You can check the sources above for more facts – some I just couldn’t bring myself to include in the post. Funny? Definitely. PC? Not so much. I know, I know, Vin Diesel doesn’t give a F- about PC….

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