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Sorry We Missed Your Day Ms. Grammar
We missed National Grammar Day (March 4) but we’re going to celebrate anyway. Here’s how: Won’t you join us?— sdh
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Joan Crawford and I Share the Same Aries Birthday: A Bio-Bibliography (Part Two) [by Stephanie Brown]
Conversations with Crawford. Oh my, what a delightful foray into high camp, which I now understood, at the age of my Saturn Return, full of education and experience, at my first professional job. Joan,…
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“Camp” [by Stephanie Brown]
When people ask—a get-to-know-the-new-kid work-conversation— “when’s your birthday?”Sometimes I say, “March 23rd,” And sometimes I say, “March 23rd, the same day as Joan Crawford’s.” Because that person may get the joke; we canDually…
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Like the Last Bear (by Laura Orem)
A poem by Gary Lawless: Treat each bear as the last bear. Each wolf the last, each caribou. Each track the last track. Gone spoor, gone scat. There are no more deertrails, no more…
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Joan Crawford and I Share the Same Aries Birthday: A Bio-Bibliography (Part One) [by Stephanie Brown]
Joan Crawford, whom I’d seen in films like Strange Cargo with Clark Gable, sleek, slender, slinky young Joan: How beautiful she was! I knew that Garbo and Dietrich were considered superior movie star beauties…
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“I Feel So Good Today “. . . Bill Hayward’s Portrait of Ai
Our favorite photographer, the incomparable Bill Hayward, sends along this photo and reminiscence of Ai, who died last week: From my book of portraits of the collaborative self…Bad Behavior (Rizzoli). She had just the…
