We always start Thanksgiving Day with This

Well,this and DrambuieChristmas is just four weeks away- there's lots wrong with the world, but at least we have each other to weather the storm. (For greatest enjoyment of this, hit the fullscreen option next to the volume on the Youtube controls)

Mother is all dressed up

We are having a smallish Thanksgiving celebration, but it does begin tonight, the night before. Mother is hosting a dinner for us, Mr. Benchley, Howard Hughes and Pigtails. I am planning on touching not only Howard's plate and food but Howard just to see him freak out. Mr Benchley is the only one certain not to be an overnight guest.

Today is Rich Little's Birthday!!!

I am very excited to see him recreate his stage role in the upcoming "An Early Frost"

Today is Boris Karloff's birthday!!

Dermabrasion really is a bitch

Cobina left these out so you'd see them

Mother went to Mass and has left out these oh so convincing photos of her luxurious accomodations during her spa visit. An aside- another "guest" at the "spa" was the star of the recently cancelled long running CW show "Oh, Pigtails!!!", the show with the precocious talking two year old female Basset Hound, Pigtails. It's kind of tough on Pigtails aka Frank as he in truth is a little boy dog and his littermate/agent (Josh Marmelstein of Aggressive Artists) has told him he's never going to work again. He too has spent the last five months at the "spa". Pigtails and Cobina have struck an odd alliance, as if that isn't already redundant.Pigtails and the employed boy starring as a girl, Lassie aka Laddie.
Electroshock just off to the right
Before she brings him home, can someone at least make sure that Pigtails is a dog?

Jane calling from Schwab's

Shocker: problemo with the order.
Jane is going to be hocking Cobina's vintage jewelry online to pay off her enormous Schwab's tab. Check out her in the lower right column as you scroll down. Drambuie doesn't grow on trees. Or maybe it does, ask Mr. Benchley or Frank Rose.
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It all turned to shit twenty-eight years ago today

See, my godmother Miss LeRoux knew Frank and Jilly and Sam and JFK; you know, the same ones Cobina "knew"; somewhere along the way the guys heard that Mae was really a dude, I'm just telling you what I've heard Cobina heard. Regardless of what was underneath, Mae was great for business.
from "Go West Young Man"

A little sister honky tonk

and Myra, just as a capper

It's Goldie Hawn and Marlo Thomas' birthdays!!!!

Yes folks, the Laugh-In cutie is a sprightly sixty three today, whereas "That Girl" clocks in at seventy-one. This was the only photo I could find of them together.

Today is Kaye Ballard's birthday!!

Their 60's hit, THE MOTHERS IN LAW- see if you think it is a wee bit like Lucy and Ethel schtick


maybe a little Cinderella with Kaye and Alice Ghostley

It All Turned to Shit Eighty Four Years Ago Today

Well, for a lot of people, but let us start with Thomas Harper Ince: The Chief was throwing a birthday party for Mr Ince on his boat "the Oneida". Lore has it that Marion had disappeared underdeck with perhaps Mr Chaplin for horizontal mambo-ing. The Chief, a jealous sort, went and got his gun and starting firing wildly and allegedly shot Ince in the process.

Such was the power of the Hearst press that the incident was spun very differently: Ince was overtaken with severe stomach cramps and was taken off the boat and driven home where he died. 'Course the fact that the chief had his body taken from the boat to the crematory sort of obviates that possibility. Ask Louella or ask Mother to ask Louella for you.

Ponder the greats born this date

1865 Dame May Whitty Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva)
1877 Charles Coburn Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1896 Mrs Simpson [Bessie Wallis Warfield), Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1897 Moe Howard comedian (3 Stooges)
1902 Guy Lombardo London Ontario Canada, orch leader (Auld Lang Syne)
1908 Mildred Natwick Balt Md, actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1919 Pauline Kael movie critic (NY Times) 1928 Nancy Marchand Buffalo NY, actress (Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant)
1932 Marisa Pavan actress (John Paul Jones, Solomon & Sheba, Rose Tattoo)
1932 Pier Angeli Italy (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge)
1936 Gena Rowlands Cambria Wisc, actress (Gloria, Tempest, Brinks Job)
1947 Salman Rushdie novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses)
1949 Kathleen Turner Springfield Mo, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married)
1951 Ann Wilson San Diego, singer (Heart-What About Love)
1959 Mark DeBarge rocker (DeBarge-Who's Johnny)
1962 Paula Julie Abdul Van Nuys Calif, singer/choreographer (Straight Up)
1973 Josie Davis actress (Charles in Charge)
1978 Garfield the Cat animated character "Big fat hairy deal"

It all turned to shit Forty-nine years ago today

Cobina's Friday morning shopping list

There appears to be a redundancy about mother's order.

Wander around Holy Cross on Friday the 13th

Check out some resting Catholics:and yes I know that a few non Catholics, notably my hero Mr. Wasserman, have made it into this file. An error, but not worth correcting. They are blocks away at Hillside Memorial Park.

It all turned to shit Twenty-five years ago today

For our beloved Norma Shearer, that is. Interred at Forest Lawn Glendale, Norma rests next to her sister-in-law Sylvia Thalberg (who had been married to producer Lawrence Weingarten) and just above her "sweetheart forever", first husband Irving Thalberg. Norma and her second husband, ski instructor Marti Arrouge were neighbors after they moved to the Garden after living at the Beverly Hills Hotel for a decade. He was quiet, handsome, and adored her. She was a kook. Ask Gavin Lambert.

Not such a hot day for Greg Peck,either Five years ago today

Greg resides within the Rog Mahall, downtown Los Angeles.

It's Raymond Cramton's birthday!!!!

Another one of Henry Willson's pretty boys, this one he named "Chad Everett". Born this date in 1935.

Forty-one years ago today, finally drunk enough to die

Such a complicated man, our Spence.

Holy shit it is Judy's birthday!!!!

Comic Genuises born this date

Eighty one years young: Jerry Stiller
Parts of, if not all of Joan Rivers are celebrating most of itself being Seventy-one