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...realize with a shudder that Robert is the normal one. Charles was the one who encouraged--forced, really--Robert to draw. Gradually Charles' own comics became choked with words, rantings in a minute hand. For 30 years now he has hardly left his mother's house. Max eats string, sits on a bed of nails, then goes begging. He felt that his elder brothers never encouraged him to create art. He finally did, saw that it was good, and had an epileptic seizure...
Ginger Rogers, the 1940 Oscar-winner best remembered for dancing cheek-to-cheek with Fred Astaire in a string of glittering, Depression-era musicals, died at her home in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs. The pair first danced during Broadway rehearsals for "Girl Crazy," a 1930 Gershwin musical. Her close friend President Reagan (in an uncredited paraphrase of a Gloria Steinem one-liner) said in 1986: "Her male counterpart got the lion's share of publicity but Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and did it with high heels on, and did it backwards...
Perhaps I hold a bias for my fellow tenders, but there have been an amazing string of remarkable efforts in goal. There is no better idea than to inform the few curious ones about just whom they should be watching come game time...
...attempt to become a living yo-yo by indulging in bungee jumping: I'm just glad the string didn't break...
Giving a possible indication of their future plans, Page and Plant accentuated a fascination with Near Eastern music which first caught their attention during a 1975 visit to Morocco. With the help of a full symphony and the Egyptian Pharaohs--a percussion and string octet--Page and Plant ended the show with a rendition of "Kashmir," one of Zeppelin's most popular hits...