Redheads on Fire

Just saw Judy in Till The Clouds Roll By,
and I've never seen her more beautiful.



















Yellow/gold compliments red hair so nicely!


Ann-Margret opening for Bye Bye Birdie

Jeanne Calment

(21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997)

Is the longest confirmed human life span in history,
living to the age of 122 years, 164 days (44724 days total).




She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson.

As a thirteen-year-old girl (1888) in her uncle's fabric shop,
she met Van Gogh. He wanted to buy some canvas,
later describing him as "dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable",
and "very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick".
Calment recalled selling coloured pencils to Van Gogh.

And she saw the Eiffel Tower being built.


age 20, in 1895

In 1896, at the age of 21, she married a wealthy store owner.
His wealth made it possible for Jeanne to never have to work;
instead she led a leisured lifestyle,
pursuing hobbies like tennis, cycling, swimming, rollerskating, piano and opera.

She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson.


age 22, in 1897

Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record.
At age 85, she took up fencing,
and at 100, she was still riding a bicycle.
She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health.
Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday,
when it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home
after a cooking accident (she was having complications with sight)
started a small fire in her flat.
However, Calment was still in good shape,
and was able to walk until she fractured her femur during a fall at age 114 years
She smoked until the age of 117, only five years before her death.
Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896),
though according to an unspecified source,
she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day.


age 40, in 1915

She ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil,
which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin,
as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilo of chocolate every week.


(thanks wikipedia!)

Jerry, Dean, Marilyn

These photos make me smile.

One of the things Marilyn's friends cherished about her was her sense of humor.

Sweet Bird of Youth

McDonald's French Fries Ingredients

Potatoes, vegetable oil (canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil,
natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*,
citric acid [preservative]),
dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), salt.
Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil,
hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness).
Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.
contains wheat and milk
*(Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat
and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients).

The Marx Brothers

Maxfield Parrish

(July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966)

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


The Young King of the Black Isles -


Parrish's work defies categorization
since he was part of no traditional movement or school,
and developed an original and individual style

The Dinkey Bird -


Stars -


Spirit of Night -


He would build up the depth in his paintings by photographing,
enlarging, projecting and tracing half- or full-size objects or figures.
Parrish then cut out and placed the images on his canvas,
covering them with thick, but clear, layers of glaze.
The result is realism of elegiac vivacity.
His work achieves a unique three-dimensional appearance,
which does not translate well to coffee table books.

Reverie -


Parrish devised many innovative techniques which no other major artist has successfully copied.

Prometheus -


Ecstasy -


Daybreak -


Cinderella (aka Enchantment) -


In 1931, he declared to the Associated Press, "I'm done with girls on rocks".
Opted instead to focus on landscapes.
Though never as popular as his earlier works, he profited from them.
He would often build models of the landscapes he wished to paint,
using various lighting setups before deciding on a preferred view,
which he would photograph as a basis for the painting.

Aquamarine -


He painted until he was 91 years old.

Evening -

(thanks wikipedia!)