Overture, curtain, lights
I just didn’t believe I was up there in fishnets and high heels actually doing it...It’s one of my strengths as a performer. I’ve got a kind of more developed feminine side so it was a chance to knowingly explore that.
--British actor Terence Stamp, on playing transgender woman/drag queen performer Bernadette Bassenger in the 1994 Australian comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
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| 1938-2025 |
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry shakes hands with Star Wars creator George Lucas at some science fiction convention in 1987. No hint of a rivalry between them that I can tell. I guess they figured the cosmos (as well as Hollywood) was big enough for the both of them.
Oh, who cares how one develops? What the true entrepreneur wants to know is, how best to capitalize on it once it does develop?
Here's one chilling possibility:
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, a Life in the Woods, first published on this date in 1854.
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Sure, she wanted to make it big in Hollywood, but that didn't mean she was going to...
...compromise her principles.
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| Loni Anderson (1945-2025) |
Best known for the highly-capable, and highly-paid, receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinatti.
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| 1928-2025 |
I would listen to the radio and think, 'I can write a song as good as that,' and the problem is, they already have people who can write songs 'as good as that' so what do they need one more for? What is necessary is somebody that can write something different.
--Tom Lehrer
