Category: Friendship

January 20, 2013 /

George Bellows – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Dempsey – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

January 20, 2013 /

Bellows was renowned for his dramatic painting style. Dempsey, like Lindbergh and the Babe, was an icon of his era. Sketch by George Bellows of Dempsey knocked out of the boxing ring: This is a photo of Dempsey working out: A portrait of a young boxer: Study of Dempsey’s shoulders…

January 19, 2013 /

There are stairs from street to street all over Beachwood Canyon. I had a friend who counted them – I think she said there were four hundred (stairs, not stairways) – she used them to get in shape for her wedding gown. (Lord, children, she was fit!) Here’s a picture…

January 17, 2013 /

In which the tramp has a rough go – “Modern Times” (1936) –

January 17, 2013 /

Once upon a time I had a friend whose great-granny invested in little Tommy Edison’s electric company… That’s neither here nor there, but, in his time Edison’s became a multifaceted company and he ran an East Coast syndicate that extracted fees from filmmakers – the very thing that made Cecil…

January 17, 2013 /

Two performers who knew how to move:

January 17, 2013 /

snopes.com: Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest.

January 16, 2013 /

Hide the TV. Behind a door, a screen, a tapestry, a painting…  

January 16, 2013 /

And, it pivots for convenient viewing at any angle…

January 16, 2013 /

Is where they put the television, media center, whatever you want to call it… I know couples who have fought about it for years. Intimately. They would be named – let’s just say Mr. and Mrs. Lester. Mr. lives by the motto “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, which…