Turner Classic Movies is airing a 1973 Katharine Hepburn interview. I love watching her talk outside of the movies. She just kicks her feet up on the table, spews no bullshit, and never doubts herself.
Posts Tagged as ‘luminaries’
March 11, 2009
Brenda Holloway
(Photo by makohl.)
Brenda Holloway was once famous enough to open for the Beatles. She was one of three women that ever performed with them on tour; the other two were Mary Wells, the Queen of Motown, and Jackie DeShannon–then famous for “Needles and Pins” but probably better known now for “What the World Needs Now [...]
March 2, 2009
Betty Ford, First Mama
(Left to right: Nancy, Lady Bird, Hillary, Rosalyn, Betty and Barbara.)
Britain has the royal family’s exploits to obsess over; I have the First Lady’s. Okay, so even famously outspoken Barbara Bush can’t hold a candle to Prince Harry in the “controversial comments” department, but she’s at least as entertaining. These women fascinate me. The First [...]
