Attention Must Be Paid: Ruby Dee
There is a movie listed as being “filming” starring Ruby Dee. Who has been dead…
Attention Must Be Paid: Gore Vidal
Grown-up nerds like Gore Vidal. And even he’s kissed more boys than I ever will.…
Attention Must Be Paid: Kathleen Freeman
Once again, we are exactly in this column’s wheelhouse. An actress with some three hundred…
Celebrating the Living: Wendy Carlos
Few of the people we’ve discussed have been celebrated by NASA. If you go to…
Attention Must Be Paid: Divine
I remember a few years back, I watched the documentary I Am Divine and realized…
Attention Must Be Paid: Ursula Nordstrom
This is, I believe, the first time I’ve written about someone without an IMDb page…
Attention Must Be Paid: Raymond Burr
The thing I miss most about Life and their annual Year in Pictures edition, honestly,…
Attention Must Be Paid: Patsy Kelly
So I admit it. When I find out that historical people had same-sex relationships, I…
Attention Must Be Paid: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
The Zimbalists just turn out to be remarkably long-lived, something I didn’t realize when I’d…
Attention Must Be Paid: Betty Grable
She was more than just a pair of legs, but my goodness but those legs…