Tag: comedian

July 5, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas. Without faith, there never could have evolved hypothesis, theory, science or mathematics. I believe that faith is an extension of the mind. It is the key that negates the impossible.” Charlie Chaplin

September 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The only day Joan Rivers made me cry… “We’ll talk later!” (1933-2014)

Joan Rivers, the raspy loudmouth who pounced on America’s obsessions with flab, face-lifts, body hair and other blemishes of neurotic life, including her own, in five decades of caustic comedy that propelled her from nightclubs to television to international stardom, died on Thursday in Manhattan. She was 81. Her daughter,…

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July 30, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Edward Steichen shoots – Charles Chaplin

July 16, 2013 / Vickie Lester

CARMEN MIRANDA CAME TO THE US IN 1939 AND BECAME A MEDIA SENSATION

January 17, 2013 / Vickie Lester

CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND ANNA PAVLOVA

Two performers who knew how to move:

September 25, 2012 / Vickie Lester

JOE E. BROWN MADE HONORARY KOP BY KEYSTONE ORIGINALS

Joe E. Brown celebrates his birthday with friends, George Gray, Chester Conklin, Pinto Colvig, and Billy Beltcher, in 1963:

August 20, 2012 / Vickie Lester

PHYLLIS DILLER

Ms. Diller, a 37-year-old homemaker when she took up comedy, mined her domestic life for material, assuring audiences that she fed Fang and her kids garbage soup and buried her ironing in the backyard. She exuded an image that was part Wicked Witch of the West (a role she actually…

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