Happy 88th, Fidel!
13 de Agosto de 2014, 6:37 - sem comentários ainda
Actual caption under this photo in the VTV piece celebrating this joyous occasion: “Chávez y Fidel: La amistad de dos pueblos.”
I give up. Really.
Tempo libero
13 de Agosto de 2014, 3:43 - sem comentários ainda
Dopo cenato amare, poi dormire,
questa è la via più facile: va da sé
lo stomaco anche se il vino era un po’ grosso.
Ti rigiri, al massimo straparli.
Ma – chi ti sente? – lei dorme più di te,
viaggia verso domani a un vecchio inganno:
la sveglia sulle sette, un rutto, un goccettino
– e tutto ricomincia – amaro di caffè.
(Giovanni Giudici)
Why the Funniest People Are Sometimes the Saddest
12 de Agosto de 2014, 18:35 - sem comentários ainda
I always feel a more intense sense of loss when a fellow alcoholic or addict commits suicide. Possibly because I have thought about it obsessively for years, and slit my wrists on multiple occasions until being forced into rehab and getting sober a year later at the age of 18.
No one will ever know exactly what Robin Williams was thinking and feeling when he made the decision to end his pain the way he did. But I do know he wasn’t seeing himself the way the rest of us saw him.
I first met Robin in 1998 when he came to the Comedy Cellar in New York City to do a guest spot. Comedians tend to be impossible to impress and love to stress how they’re impossible to impress when bigger, far more famous comedians perform sets.
But on this particular night, I noticed that none of the regular…
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A Simple Manifesto: They Too Are People (Photo Essay by Hannah Stonebraker)
12 de Agosto de 2014, 18:34 - sem comentários ainda
Guest writer and photographer: Hannah Stonebraker
One must recognize they too are people.
(This may seem simple. This may seem obvious. I wish, these days, all days, it was.)
They too are people. (Not animals. Not enemies, Not primitives. People.) Whomever you consider your other, whomever you consider to be your intellectual, ideological, religious, territorial enemy – they too are people.
They too have mothers and sons and daughters and wives and friends.
They too love and hate and give and take.
They too believe what they believe for reasons both known and unknown both to themselves and to others.
They too believe things with which I both agree and disagree – intellectually, emotionally, painfully, ideologically.
But hard as it may be – I shall try to listen.
Listen to these reasons, listen to their beliefs, listen to their pain and ideology and fear.
An overwhelming amount of fear.
For what…
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CBS News: Actress Lauren Bacall Dies At 89
12 de Agosto de 2014, 18:33 - sem comentários ainda
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Actress and New York City resident Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89, CBS News confirmed.
Born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx in 1924, Bacall was known for her roles with, and marriage, to Humphrey Bogart.
Bacall had planned to become a dancer as a youngster and took journalism classes as a teen, but she turned to acting after meeting Bette Davis, CBS News recalled.
She became an overnight success with what came to be viewed as a legendary performance in the film, “To Have and Have Not” with Bogart in 1944.
She married Bogart the following year, and made several more films with him, including “The Big Sleep,” “Dark Passage,” and “Designing Woman” before Bogart’s death in 1957.
Bacall’s film career went on afterward, including roles in “Sex and the Single Girl” with Henry Fonda and Tony Curtis in 1964, and “Harper”…
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