IF: outer space
Planet earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do.
Archive of entries posted by joshpincusiscrying
DCS: jim nabors
In the early 70s, a group of Hollywood friends — all homosexual — gathered for an annual party in Huntington Beach. According to actor Rock Hudson, invitations were printed announcing the marriage of Jim Nabors and Hudson, explaining that the heartthrob would be taking Jim’s TV character’s surname, the popular “Gomer Pyle,” the naive yet …
IF: sheep
Harmlessly passing your time in the grasslands away Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air
DCS: anthony bourdain
No reservations.
IF: squirrel
SQUIRREL!
DCS: candy darling
Candy Darling was an actress. Her friend Jackie Curtis invited pop artist Andy Warhol to a play that Curtis had written starring Candy and a young actor named Robert DeNiro. Warhol was impressed and cast Candy in his film Flesh in 1968 and then in a more substantial role in his film, Women in Revolt …
IF: emoji
Imogene Coca was funny. Very funny. She starred opposite Sid Caesar on the early live TV showcase Your Show of Shows and she kept up with Caesar’s comic shenanigans every step of the way. Imogene was nominated five times for her work on Your Show of Shows, finally winning in 1951. In the early 1960s, …
DCS: victor mature
Over the course of his six-decade career, Victor Mature made a lot of movies. And he always looked like he was having the time of his life. Best known for action thrillers like One Million BC in 1940, Westerns like My Darling Clementine in 1946 and biblical epics like Samson and Delilah and The Robe, …
DCS: kate spade
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good-morning,” and he glittered when he …
IF: green
A little yellow. A little blue. And what have you got…. in any language.