What was that magical power Rex Harrison had over women? This is the third story I’ve presented about a woman who was obsessed with the late actor. Kay Kendall appeared in both comedies and dramas, including a Golden Globe-winning performance in 1957 musical Les Girls, opposite Gene Kelly. She had a lengthy romance with Charlie …
A dancer since the age of five, Carol Haney left her native New Bedford, Massachusetts for Hollywood. She was spotted by choreographer Jack Cole in some bit parts and was hired as his partner in the middle 1940s. Soon, she paired up with the great Gene Kelly as his assistant choreographer on such classic MGM musicals …
Lupe Velez got her show business start singing and dancing in Mexican vaudeville in the 1920s. She was recommended to American theater director Richard Bennett (father of actress Joan Bennett) by a friend who had seen her perform. Bennett needed an actress to play a Mexican cantina singer for a play he was staging and Lupe fit …
The final entry for Inktober 2016. It’s week five, for those of you playing along at home. It’s Bonnie, Nancy, Sarah and Rochelle — everyone’s second favorite 90s movie witches. (The Sanderson Sisters are first, of course.)
It was pretty apparent that Pete Burns was unique when, at 14, he was sent to the headmaster’s office for arriving at school one morning with no eyebrows, flaming red hair and one gigantic earring. While working as a clerk in a Liverpool record store, Pete formed his first band, the short-lived Mystery Girls. He then …
Another Inktober 2016 mid-week bonus. Mary, Winifred and Sarah! Amok, amok, amok!
Judas betrays Jesus with a kiss.
As Inktober 2016 winds to a close, here is my entry for week four. Amelia is terrified by the Zuni fetish doll that is holding her captive in her own apartment in the greatest, made-for-television movie ever filmed, Trilogy of Terror — a tour de force for the late Karen Black.
Lesley Goldstein was the voice of youth, decades before Kurt Cobain had the moniker thrust upon him by the “grunge” generation. At 16, the young, aspiring singer (now using the surname “Gore”) pored over hundred of demos with her novice producer, Quincy Jones. The pair finally agreed on a melancholy tune about a poor birthday girl …
The drawings and the bonuses keep coming in Inktober 2016. Maybe I’m working my way to a-drawing-a-day for next year. Maybe. “I am alone….. I am utterly alone.” – Lydia Deetz, Beetlejuice (1988)
