This ridiculously beautiful James Dean – Great Man Metal Tin Sign , 16×12
Indeed!
Click through the link or the image for a closer look. Love, love, love this.
More for those who can’t get enough of James Dean:
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James Dean: Great Man Quote
Image and Quote on a Tin Sign
Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Lucille Ball
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them. – Lucille Ball
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. – Lucille Ball
I’m not funny. What I am is brave. – Lucille Ball
(About meeting Desi Arnaz for the first time.) It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes. – Lucille Ball
I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children. – Lucille Ball
You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S. – Lucille Ball
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. – Lucille Ball
A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright. – Lucille Ball
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. – Lucille Ball
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. – Lucille Ball
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Ball
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt. – Lucille Ball
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. – Lucille Ball
(About Audrey Hepburn) She’s a tomboy and a fine comedienne. You’d never think of her being able to do my type of comedy. But she can. She has great energy, frail as she looks. But, well, she’s so beautiful, so ethereal, it would be sacrilege to put her through it. – Lucille Ball
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. – Lucille Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball
The more things you do, the more you can do. -Lucille Ball
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. – Lucille Ball
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. – Lucille Ball
Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts. – Lucille Ball
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. – Lucille Ball
I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off. – Lucille Ball
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. – Lucille Ball
You see much more of your children once they leave home. – Lucille Ball
I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. – Lucille Ball
The movie poster shown at the top, Lucille Ball movie poster original ‘FOREVER DARLING’ (I LOVE LUCY team) with Desi Arnaz (1956) measuring 27″ x 41″. A one sheet poster for the film starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz which was made during the run of their famous TV show ‘I LOVE LUCY’. It is in excellent condition and quite scarce!
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Great. Now these songs will be on my mind 24/7. Not that I mind, I think the songs (and killer dancing moves) are adorable. They’re from the wonderful 1974 Christmas special The Year Without a Santa Claus. Enjoy – and good luck getting the tunes out of your head.
I’m an absolute fool for everything Christmas: The decorations, the movies, the food, the snow… everything. In fact some of my favorite movies of all time are Christmas movies. I’ve highlighted three of them in the banner above:
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Miracle on 34th Street
I could sit down right now and watch each one about a dozen times, without ever blinking. I’ve started collecting everything related to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, so the Rudolph/Clarice/Xmas Tree Musical Ornament shown above is on my MUST GET FOR ME list!
The characters in Rudolph are some of the most beloved and adorable characters of all time. I love them all, of course, but there’s a special place in my heart for Rudolph and his girl, Clarice.
Click through to take a closer look – this is absolutely beautiful.
I’m seriously in the mood to watch this movie!
I can’t tell you how much I love the Marilyn Monroe Imperfection – Vinyl Wall Words Lettering Decal Sticker
The quote reads: Imperfection is beauty, Madness is genius and it’s better to be Absolute Ridiculous than Absolutely boring. – Marilyn Monroe
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Click through the following link to take a closer look, and be sure to look at the other Marilyn Monroe quotes available: Marilyn Monroe Imperfection – Vinyl Wall Words Lettering Decal Sticker
Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor, 1963
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One of the most celebrated actresses of all time, the impossibly beautiful Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles from complications with congestive heart failure; she was 79.
Elizabeth Taylor was one of the last remaining stars from the truly golden age of Hollywood. The legendary beauty, actress, and activist earned two Academy Awards (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfield 8) in her career and left her mark on the entertainment industry. Many feel that she’s the actress who forced doors to open in Hollywood. Her talent proved that an actress can be both beautiful and talented, sexy and strong, romantic and mysterious.
Apparently the actress had been hospitalized for the past few weeks and even celebrated her birthday on February 27th at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with friends and family. Her four children, two sons and two daughters, were by her side when she died.
Like so many of us, I can actually remember the first time I laid eyes on the strikingly beautiful brunette. My dad was watching Cleopatra on television and, as I was walking through the living room, my eyes caught site of her in all of her Cleopatra regalia. I just thought, Whoa. She simply had an aura about her when she was on the screen – the kind that just dared you to look away.
While her millions of fans and her loving family will miss her, Elizabeth Taylor will never truly leave us. She’ll live on in her memorable roles, her (outstanding!) perfumes, her gorgeous pictures, and – most importantly – in her tireless, passionate work she did for AIDS patients. Now, as then, she dares anyone to look away. And now, as then, it’s absolutely impossible.
Rest in peace. You made the world a more beautiful place.
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The beautiful and sultry Jane Russell died Monday from Respiratory failure at the age of 89. She became something of a pinup legend for World War II GIs!
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her father was a US Army lieutenant and her mother was a drama student and aspiring actress. Jane’s mother urged her to go to drama school and the rest (as corny as it sounds) is history.
Jane Russell skyrocketed to fame in the ’1940s after starring in Howard Hughes’ 1941 western, ‘The Outlaw.’ Another of her most popular movies was 1953′s ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ alongside Marilyn Monroe.
More films followed – including two – Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) and The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) – that Jane Russell fans especially applaud for highlighting more than her sex appeal. These movies showed just what a fine actress she actually was.
Eventually, the movies kind of faded away – back then, an actress was nearly out of her prime if she was out of her 20s (thank God those days have changed!). Jane’s name, face, and figure stayed in the public’s adoring eye in the 1970s when she became a spokesperson for Playtex bras. Many of us (myself, included) first knew Ms. Russell from these commercials. When I first watched one of her older westerns with my dad, I asked him, “Isn’t that the bra lady?“ Dad: “Yes. She was an actress before she was the bra lady.”
The screen star was once married to pro football player Bob Waterfield. In 1968, their 24-year marriage ended in divorce. She then married actor Roger Barrett, who died three months later.Her third, and final, marriage was to developer John Peoples in 1978. He died in 1999 of heart failure.
After Jane Russell retired from the screen, she became active in her church and with favorite charitable foundations.
“She always said I’m going to die in the saddle, I’m not going to sit at home and become an old woman,” Russell’s daughter-in-law Etta Waterfield told the Associated Press. “And that’s exactly what she did, she died in the saddle.”
Survivors include her children, Thomas K. Waterfield, Tracy Foundas and Robert “Buck” Waterfield, six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Jane Russell Trivia
- She and husband Bob Waterfield adopted a baby girl, Tracy, in February of 1952
- They adopted a 15-month-old British boy, Tommy Kavanaugh, in December of 1952.
- Through her organization, World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families. (Talk about LIVING legacies!)
- Jane Russells breasts are the namesake for ‘The Jane Russell Peaks’ in Alaska.
- A born-again Christian, Jane Russell held weekly Bible studies at her home. These were attended by some of the industry’s biggest names.
- Unable to bear children, she fought for the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption Amendment of 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States.
Jane’s favorite book was the Bible and she read from it every single day. I can’t help but smile when I think that this beautiful lady (inside and out) has now met the Author of the Book she cherished.
Jane Russell is yet another example of why Hollywood Yesterday exists – to keep the memories alive! When the memories are truly special, like the ones involving Jane Russell, it makes the walk down memory lane even sweeter. Jane Russell was a screen and pinup goddess but she was so much more than that. The way she stood up for what she believed in and fought for adoptive parents and children is a reminder to all of us that we, too, will one day leave a legacy.
Here’s hoping it’ll be even half as sweet as the bra lady‘s.
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Denzel Washington is a favorite actor in our household. My husband lists him high amongst his favorite actors, as do I. I believe our oldest daughter, Emily, would be first in line to watch the actor read a New York City phone book. If… that is… she beat my husband to the front of the line.
Below are some of my favorite quotes by Denzel Washington, followed by a few Did You Know’s.
Denzel Washington Quotes
(About “The Book of Eli”) – We shot in New Mexico, and the environment definitely helped. It was bleak. It got chilly and windy. The wind was the biggest deal. You’d have to wash the sand out of your nose and eyes. The world that the movie takes place in, the opportunity to do all this “Blade” kind of martial-arts stuff, working with the Hughes brothers — it was an interesting combination of things.
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(About “Training Day”) – My son talked me into doing that movie. He was like, ‘Dad, you’ve never done anything like this.’ I just hadn’t been asked before. The only film that was sort of dark that I’d turned down was “Se7en.” They offered me the Brad Pitt part, but I was like, ‘This is so dark and evil.’ Then when I saw the movie, I was like, ‘Oh, shoot.’
(About “Philadelphia” with Tom Hanks) – (Director) Jonathan Demme said to me, ‘Look, we don’t want your character to go 360 degrees. It’s not like by the end of the movie he’s leading a gay and lesbian parade.’ If we’d done that, it would have let people like this character off the hook. But at the end, he touches (Tom Hanks’ character) – and that’s huge for him. [Pauses, then laughs] I used to mess with Tom. He was barely eating at all, and I would put out, like, 200 Almond Joys in his drawer to give him a hard time. I’d pretend to sneeze and all these Snickers would fall on the ground. I’m sure he laughed all the way up to the podium when he won the Oscar.
(About the whipping scene in “Glory”) – I remember walking around before that scene, just praying and calling on the spirits of all the slaves, because I didn’t know how to play it. I was like, ‘Okay, fellas, just tell me what to do.’ And I went out there with an arrogance. I spit on the ground. I had this attitude and this strength – it all came out of this meditation. It wasn’t calculated. It was organic. That whip actually hurt, but I was like, ‘Don’t let him win.’
I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
(About where he likes to keep his Oscars) “Next to each other.”
(About turning 50) “I have a friend who says ‘the first 50 was for them, this 50′s for me’. I like that. The weirdest part of it, or even the saddest part, is that you start to see people die. You go ‘Man! He wasn’t even that old’. I lost a friend recently who died of a heart attack. He was 58. When I was 20, 58 was old. It ain’t now.”
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Denzel Washington: Did You Know?
Supports charities such as the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, and the Gathering Place (an AIDS hospice).
Denzel Washington met his wife Pauletta Washington in 1977 when both had small roles in the TV-movie Wilma (1977). They wed five years later and have been together ever since.
His father was a Pentecostal minister; his mother a beautician and former gospel singer.
Washington is a spokesperson for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Denzel Washington was the second black actor (the great Sidney Poitier was the first) to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Training Day – 2001).
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Tom Hanks said working with Washington on Philadelphia (in 1993) was like “going to film school”. Hanks said he learned more about acting by watching Denzel than from anyone else.
Denzel Washington was the second of three children.
His performance as Malcolm X in the film Malcolm X is ranked #17 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Denzel Washington is very good friends with actress Julia Roberts.
He spent months on the beat with Washington Post reporters to prepare for The Pelican Brief.
Denzel Washington named Gene Hackman, Angelina Jolie, and Dakota Fanning as the most talented actors he has ever worked with.
He turned down the role that went to George Clooney in Michael Clayton.
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It’s that wonderful, magical, beautiful time of year again: The Christmas Season. The time of year when I have trouble concentrating on anything but cookies, decorations, gift buying, homemade candy, Christmas music, and Christmas shows.
My all-time favorite Christmas shows are:
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Miracle on 34th Street
Yes. In that order. Rudolph, Clarice, the Misfit Toys, the Abominable Snowman, Santa, the elves… they’ve been close friends of mine for more years than I care to count and they fill me with as much joy now as they did the first time I met them. Maybe more because each year we’ve picked up more precious memories together along the way. The first time I watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with my parents, the first time I watched it with my husband, the first time we watched it with each of our 3 daughters… Indeed, they do fill me with more joy now more than ever.
I was browsing the web this morning looking for Christmas gifts and gift ideas. I made the mistake of logging onto Build-A-Bear Workshop®. I say mistake because I collect dolls, bears, and various other stuffed animals. The last thing I needed was to find gifts for myself.
But lo and behold, as soon as I landed on the website, guess what was waiting for me. Yep.. Rudolph, Clarice, Abominable, and even something I’ve wanted for two forevers: The Misfit Toys. I’ve ALWAYS wondered why I could never find the Misfit Doll, the Spotted Elephant, or Charlie-in-the-Box. They always seemed like such logical collectible items but I’ve never seen them. Until today.
Not only does the Build A Bear Workshop have an unbelievable collection of these beloved characters, they also have a countless number of accessories and other goodies – all kinds of stocking stuffers as well. And if you know anything about Build A Bear, you know that they’re incapable of making anything less than excellent. Couldn’t do it if they tried.
I’ve put the different Rudolph-Themed gifts in this post – I know you’ll fall in love with them just like I have. What excellent Christmas gifts! – Even if they are for yourself! Shhh, I won’t tell on you if you don’t tell on me.
17 in. Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster®
18 in. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer®
Sleigh Guide Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer®
Up to Snow Good Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster®
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer®
Mini Misfit Toys: Perfect Stocking Stuffers!
Oh, stick a fork in me. Sweet Dreams Clarice has on Clarice slippers. 4 of them. And a bell collar… Okay, I pretty much want one of each of these. Build A Bear, I love you.
I’ve gotten to the point where I can’t get through the day without a little (or a lotta) Johnny Cash in the background. Great music – and what a voice!
If you’re a huge Johnny Cash fan – you’re sure to love the Johnny Cash T-Shirts below, not to mention the videos! If you’re pretty new to Johnny Cash music, sit back and enjoy – I know you’ll be a huge fan in no time at all.
You won’t be able to help yourself, once the man in black casts his spell, you’re done for.
Johnny Cash – Cash & King T-Shirt
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Women’s: Johnny Cash – Folsom Stripes T-Shirt
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Johnny Cash – Cash Flippin’ T-Shirt
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Johnny Cash – Songs T-Shirt
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