Category: Culture

July 10, 2016 /

“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.” Louis Armstrong

July 10, 2016 /

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” Ella Fitzgerald

July 4, 2016 /

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide…

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July 4, 2016 /

“Independence …. is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.” Mark Twain

July 3, 2016 /

Diana Vreeland got her start working for Carmel Snow at Harper’s Bazaar…

July 3, 2016 /

Carmel Snow, high society gal with an eye for genius, became editor of Harper’s Bazaar, after a stint with Condé Nast at Vogue…

July 3, 2016 /

Carmel Snow, legendary fashion editor, mixes with Hollywood and goes to the beach with Martin Munkacsi in 1933…

July 1, 2016 /

Olivia de Havilland turns 100, “I don’t need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.”

…”By golly, I’m alive, all right. and I do live in France, and not under but on top of solid Parisian limestone. Furthermore, I speak First Class Foreign French, and if I’ve stunned you into immobility by all this startling information, you just keep seated and keep quiet, and I’ll…

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July 1, 2016 /

I am attracted by almost any French word – written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought “saucisson” so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child – until I learned it meant “sausage”! Olivia de Havilland

July 1, 2016 /

A little unsolicited advice on love… with Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn

Even if you’re fighting with your beloved, the point is never to lose connection. Sometimes, even in heated debate, the Mr. and I find we’re still touching, and there’s not a damn thing make-believe about that. No matter what is said, it helps…