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POPSBritain's longest-lasting marriage ends after 81 years Rest in peace, Mr. Milford. And much sympathy to Mrs. Milford. More: They married on May 26, 1928 at Torpoint Register Office in Cornwall - the year the first £1 note came into circulation and Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. After the ceremony, they saw a Charlie Chaplin film at the cinema. They survived two German bombs in the Blitz in Plymouth during the Second World War - one of them fell on their house.
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POPSUsing words as "art" images. artistic use of "letters & words" as art in ad campaign for Brazil's "Folha de S. Paulo" newspaper
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POPSThe tick of the male biological clock? from the article: "He believes the risks for children of older fathers will eventually be seen to be as noteworthy as the risks facing older mothers. “It’s going to be more and more of an issue to society,” he notes." One of the most important differences that affect the male/female barrier is the biological clock tick and tack. We all remember Charlie Chaplin as an exemplar of late parenthood. And here we begin to observe that it ain't so exactly. it is still not the same as with females in many aspects, one of them in this context is the fact that for females it is a yes or no question of fertility at some point. Nevertheless it does potentially carry a crack of more understanding , maybe, to the other gender? not to mention the possible technological horizon of reproduction being departed from its crude specific and local biological origin. Fascinating....
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POPSIt's the hat! And this is how a hat makes the difference between a mass murderer and a really funny person. Lol. =]
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POPSHow cops' clubs clobbered liberal thinking out of Howard Zinn "So we both took an end of the banner DOWN with the bloody Hitler fascist regime ]. I felt like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times when he casually picks up a red signal flag and suddenly finds a thousand people marching behind him with raised fists. I woke up perhaps a half hour later with a painful lump on my head. From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal - a believer in the self-correcting character of democracy." Howard Zinn
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POPSHollywood Portraits - Heroes not 2b gone with the wind .. -)
Music from John Barry's great soundtrack; and, in order of appearance: Anna May Wong; Robert Montgomery; Kay Francis; Greta Garbo; Joan Crawford & Clark Gable; Jean Harlow; Robert Montgomery; Greta Garbo; Louise Brooks; Charlie Chaplin; Joan Crawford & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Frances Farmer; Myrna Loy & Ronald Colman; Barbara Stanwyck; Greta Garbo; Dolores del Rio; Kay Francis & Herbert Marshall; Norma Shearer; Miriam Hopkins; Marlene Dietrich; Bing Crosby; Carole Lombard; William Powell; Norma Shearer; Greta Garbo; Marlene Dietrich; Loretta Young and Tyrone Power; Veronica Lake; Loretta Young; Gary Cooper; Vivien Leigh; Lauren Bacall; Rita Hayworth; Jean Harlow; Vivien Leigh; Lana Turner; Humphrey Bogart; Greta Garbo; John Gilbert; Greta Garbo & John Barrymore; Joel McCrea; Vivien Leigh; Clark Gable; Greta Garbo; Maureen O'Sullivan & Johnny Weismuller; Kay Francis; Ann Harding & Leslie Howard; Sally Blaine & Jeanette MacDonald; Jean Harlow & Clark Gable; Jean Harlow; Joan Crawford; Ma