"Joe lived awhile down the lake. "

Joe could fool you. He talked slow and Southern, lacked pretensions, and you could talk to him for weeks without realizing how very damned smart he was.


Harry Belafonte's first and greatest fan!

Justine's family and close friends will remember her as Harry Belafonte's first and greatest fan. She had seen him many times at the Oakdale Theatre, and her sons will always remember hours of Harry's music being played in the house.

RIP, Elizabeth Taylor

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who directed her in “Suddenly Last Summer” and “Cleopatra,” remembered seeing her for the first time, in Cannes, when she was 18. “She was the most incredible vision of loveliness I have ever seen in my life,” he said. “And she was sheer innocence.”

“Planes, trains, everything stops for Elizabeth Taylor, but the public has no conception of who she is,” said Roddy McDowall, who was her earliest co-star and a friend for life.

H/T to Vanessa Horwell!

A subscriber to "Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure."

He liked to travel mostly in this country, exploring country roads, getting lost and finding a different way out of such experiences.

And in that order?

Hazel was an avid Boston Red Sox fan and loved Frank Sinatra, Ronald Regan, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

A pocketful of Kisses ... just in case.

He never complained. If anything bothered him, he would just sing.

Not sure how "unexpected" it was but she leaves us food for thought

"Don't be sad, don't be blue, I may be better off than you."