CNN’s Anderson Cooper says President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy the military if state don’t ‘dominate the streets’ and using the military to clear peaceful protesters for a photo event at a church was “simultaneously outrageous and dangerous.”
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Toni Morrison, the author of such acclaimed works as Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Paradise,, and Love, had some of the most insightful things to say about racism that I have ever heard.
I saw the documentary Toni Morrison: Pieces of Me at ArcLight in Hollywood and was especially struck by portions of a 1993 interview Morrison did with Charlie Rose. I posted the entire interview on the 89th anniversary of her birth last year but it is so worth watching again. Please share it with people.
Morrison spoke of racism: “People who practice racism are bereft. There is something distorted about their psyche. … It’s like a profound neurosis that nobody examines for what it is. It feels crazy. It is crazy.”
She asks of the racist person: “Who are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? Are you still smart? Do you still like yourself? If you can only be tall because somebody’s on their knees, you have a serious problem. And my feeling is white people have a very, very serious problem, and they should start thinking about what they can do about it.”
Her powerful comments come at the 37:00 mark.
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Today we shine a spotlight on Richard Chamberlain, the great star of TV’s The Thorn Birds, Shogun and Dr. Kildare
Chamberlain, now 86, was pretty much off my radar until I saw a scene in Thorn Birds where he was dancing (it was the same party where Barbara Stanwyck kissed him on the lips then died) and he was just so HOT!
From then on, I watched everything he ever did.
Th actor came out as a gay man in 2003 and wrote about it in his memoir Shattered Love: “When I grew up, being gay, being a sissy or anything like that was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely and had to hide it and became “Perfect Richard, All-American Boy” as a place to hide.”
He continues to be busy in roles both straight and gay – including playing Felicity Huffman’s gay stepfather on Desperate Housewives and Uncle Saul’s love interest on Brothers & Sisters. He was in the 21017 reboot of Twin Peaks.
His recent films include Nightmare Cinema, Forbidden Love, The Perfect Family and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
HISTORIC EVENING: One thing is for sure, you could never pull off an evening like this again.
The occasion was “Night of 100 Stars” in 1982 held at Radio City Music Hall, New York City. This early 80s television extravaganza became such a big deal that virtually every star of stage and screen – well more than 100 – showed up to take part.
This segment is absolutely glorious. It’s a Broadway Medley with well-known artists from Broadway musicals.
How well-known? Here’s a partial list of who appears in this 10-minute production number:
Carol Channing (Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend), Robert Preston (The Music Man), Lucie Arnaz and Robert Klein (They’re Playing Our Song), Pearl Bailey (St. Louis Woman), Beatrice Arthur (Bosom Buddies from Mame), Lauren Bacall (Woman of the Year), Dihann Carroll (No Strings), Dorothy Loudon (Annie), Sandy Duncan (Peter Pan), Richard Kiley (Man of La Mancha), Jerry Orbach (42nd Street), Frank Langella (Dracula), Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller (Sugar Babies), Mary Martin (South Pacific) followed by the great Ethel Merman singing There’s No Business Like Show Business.
It just does not get any better than that. Enjoy!
The second video is from the same special: Liza Minnelli belting out New York, New York.
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Look who turns 70 today.
What a silver fox!
He’s Gregory Harrison who I fell in love with as Gonzo Gates on Trapper John MD, the young and hunky doc who lived in a mobile home parked on hospital grounds.
That role and the sexy stripper part in 1981′s For Ladies Only made him a favorite with women and gay men in the 1980s. He spoofed that role in the 1986 miniseries Fresno where his character appeared shirtless at every opportunity. Gregory is also best known for the cult fave film North Shore which was released in 1987.
He was a regular in the final season Falcon Crest and in 1996, he starred opposite Eric Roberts in It’s My Party, a film based on the true events of a man diagnosed with AIDS who planned a two-day party to say goodbye to his friends and family and then took his own life with pills.
Gregory had a few short-lived post-Trapper series – Family Man, New York News and Safe Harbor - but had his greatest success on the Broadway stage in revivals of Follies and Chicago and starred in the original Tony nominated musical Steel Pier.
He’s still busy in television. He plays Joe O’Toole in the Hallmark Channel series of Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Truth Be Told films – six in all so far. In recent years he has recurred on Rizzoli & Isles, Reckless, Chesapeake Shores, and Ringer. He also had a recurring role on the CW’s One Tree Hill and guest appearances on Touched by an Angel, Judging Amy, Reunion, The Middle, Castle, NCIS, American Housewife, Body of Proof, Psych, Joey, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Drop Dead Diva and Hot In Cleveland.
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