#celebrity anecdotes

[irishgop]

Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland 1958

The following story about Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland was told by Ed Walters, who was a pit boss at the Sands:

"The weekend is over and the people have gone home. It's around 3am, the casino is dead. A fellow at 21 table with his back to the lounge says to me 'ls that who I think it is?' I tell him, 'you're right, turn around and look.' He says 'Oh my God, it's Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra' Frank and Judy are singing, they're sitting on the edge of the lounge stage. Red Norvo is playing the xylophone or whatever you call it. He was appearing with his group there in the lounge during the day. A lot of friends of Frank are there too. Interesting to me is.....

1. How sweet and gentle Frank was with Judy. She was not in a good shape. She acted like she was totally drunk or drugged. He would actually have to hold her up after each song or she would have fallen off the stage. He would do this with such caring and grace.

2. The amazing quality of their voices. Here are two people who had been up all night, very tired, very drunk, could hardly speak well AND then they start singing and you hear two clear and powerful voices, singing with such joy that it is heard throughout the entire casino. No microphones, just these two sitting there and singing their hearts out.

They sang for over 40 minutes and then everyone headed out. With Frank caring for Judy all the way.

Anyone who has been fortunate enough to witness these great moments will never forget them. It is just magic.

[belovedcelebrity]

Anne Hathaway Husband Age Movies Accident Net Worth Recent Photos

Anne is known for her television series Get Real and her lead role in Disney's The Princess Diaries.

Anne Hathaway‘s full name is Anne Jacqueline Hathaway who started her acting career at a very young age. Her debut in the television series “Get Real” at just 16. She attended Vassar College and later transferred to New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. One of the most talented and versatile actresses and models, honored with the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress…

[whiteshipnightjar]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOANNA NEWSOM! 🥳️💖🥳️ January 18th, 1982

“If you were a world leader, what would be your first law? Gravity. I feel like we need to tighten up the constitutional protections that particular law enjoys. It’s a ticking time bomb, if you ask me. Who would be your top advisers? Cute angel on one shoulder, cute devil on the other.”

[elytrafemme]

okay so i don't wanna exaggerate! you know me, mare, never too much of anything in her life, super calm and composed. yeah. i don't wanna blow things out of proportion. but i'm getting a sinking feeling that my abnormal psych professor might actually be an evil person.

[hishighnesstheprincess]

Straight male celebrities: I know I co-wrote this queer sexually explicit film, pitched the idea in the first place, and told the director to take the sex stuff further, but I'm suddenly uncomfortable and backing out five days before production begins leaving hundreds unpaid and out of a job and millions of dollars in losses

Straight female celebrities: Let's french kiss each other in music videos

[fieriframes]

[And Time, in our camp, is moving. As you'd anticipate it to. But what is this sample proving? Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do.]

[benicebefunny]

Did Neil Gaiman really namedrop Ruby Bridges?

[magentagalaxies]

Jessamine Accidentally Writes An Essay About Two Conversations Ze's Totally Normal About

one of my beloved mutuals (@souplover13) is reblogging a lot of queerpunk posts tonight which just reminded me of two conversations i want to document. yes this story involves paul bellini why wouldn't it (fr tho i was considering not making this a post bc i was like oh god do people really want to hear me ramble about these 63-year-old gay dudes again maybe i should give it a rest but whatever it's my blog and if people don't like it why are they even following me this is all we do here)

anyway the story actually begins with a conversation i had with my parents earlier today. now, i'm lucky enough to have parents that are constantly trying their best to be good allys and are always learning to do better. they're not perfect, but they want to learn. while at lunch today my dad took a picture of me and my mom together since i won't be home again for a few months and he affectionately said "my girls." i've been out to my parents as nonbinary for around a year, but i let it slide since my gender wasn't the most important part of that sentiment, more the fact that it was a nice family moment.

a beat later my mom corrects "girl and person," and while i am grateful for her seeing that i'm not a girl, this type of correction always makes me feel more awkward than being misgendered. like, the point of my dad calling me "his girl" was this tone of familial affection, but the word "person" just feels cold and distant, which is something i struggle with in a lot of gender neutral language. but beyond that, it's just this weird separation. i jokingly correct my mom again, saying "hey, we're both people."

the conversation continues and eventually my mom asks if it bothers me when people call me "girl" like that. and the truth is: i don't know. it bothers me a little, but the forced neutrality bothers me more, and honestly i don't really care what gendered language someone uses for me as long as they mean it in a way that shows me they care. like, i'd rather be called girl affectionately than be called "genderqueer nonbinary person with a strained relationship to androgyny who uses ze/zir pronouns and feels represented by the word transfeminine" in a derogatory way. I respond "it's contextual," but that's not a satisfactory answer. the conversation moves on to a nonbinary person who stops by my mom's work often and how my mom's had to correct some of the older employees to stop calling them a girl, since times are changing.

the second conversation is from a few weeks ago when i first visited canada to help with the mouth congress concert and got to have lunch with paul bellini beforehand. at one point the conversation developed into paul asking me what being "nonbinary" means for me personally. it was clear he wasn't intimately familiar with the concept (though to his credit he did have more experience with it than i expected), and some of his assumptions were inaccurate to my experience, but he listened intently as i described my experience not knowing how to specifically label my gender but just knowing i don't want to be seen as a cis woman while also having no desire to be fully male. he related it to his own experience as a gay man with his own complex relationship to masculinity and femininity, acknowledging it's not the exact same, and by the end of our conversation i truly felt like he respected my unique relationship to gender even if there were certain parts he still needed to process.

but most importantly, it was funny. granted our conversation was a unique case since both individuals were queer comedians from different generations, but approaching the strange concept of gender identity with humor made it so much more comfortable. paul described being a little feminine gay kid and thinking "i'm not a boy or a girl, i'm a god" and i responded that's it exactly. i brought up the mouth congress song she-male: master of the universe, saying the vision of a vengeful genderqueer space goddess is the most represented i've felt by a piece of media, only half joking. but also there were times when i made jokes about failing at gender (e.g. referencing a group of "girls" at my high school who made me realize i'm nonbinary since i always felt weird for being the least feminine person when we hung out, and then the fact that several of them came out as transmasc after graduation meaning now they can be better than me at being trans as well) and while paul acknowledged the joke he also assured me i was exactly where i needed to be in terms of my gender presentation, and honestly i'm kind of tearing up just thinking about it.

paul never asked me for my pronouns, but to be fair i did somewhat volunteer them in the form of a joke: "i use any pronouns, but i will silently judge you based on what you do with that information." that line got a laugh.

I told the same line to my parents after our "girl" conversation today, earning only confusion, and it made me realize something: so much of modern trans allyship centers entirely around language, be it pronouns or recognizing the lack of neutrality in our everyday speech. and while these things are certainly important, that's not understanding. cishet allys so often want to be able to say the right thing, so they approach the subject as learning the rules for how to incorporate this new approach to gender into their lexicon. i think there's something to be said for how this parallels how we're often taught about cis gender roles: these are the rules you follow to be a man or woman. when you find out someone doesn't fit neatly into those boxes, it's natural to ask "okay, what are your rules?" this also leads to some cis people (even gay cis people) complaining about how "you can't say anything these days" since it's portrayed as just another set of rules you need to learn.

but honestly, i don't know what my gender rules should be. my approach to gender lately has been the equivalent of "idk dude i just work here," i don't know where i specifically fit in but i do know how i feel inside. the answer "it's contextual" doesn't give you the cheat codes to gendering me correctly, because even i don't know how to gender myself correctly half the time. however, more importantly imo it gives you a window into how it feels to be me, a nonbinary person with complicated relationships to every facet of gender who's decided to stop expecting language to fully represent me but still has to deal with language being applied to me all the time. my nonbinary gender is confusing as hell, and i'm tired of having to pretend it's not as if that's the only way it's worthy of respect. every gender (including cis genders) is confusing as hell, and it's only when we all accept this fact that we can actually make a meaningful connection.

as my parents and i were driving away from the restaurant my only thought was i wonder how my dad would've referred to that photo if it was my brother and my mom in the picture. would he have said "girl and boy?" or "girl and person?" or would he have simply said "family"

[sjwallin]

I LOVE this anecdote from Winona Ryder! You go, girl—you don’t owe anybody your autograph, leastwise an old school bully 😈

Didn’t you get beaten up in seventh grade for dressing up like Jimmy Cagney?

I was wearing an old Salvation Army–shop boy’s suit. I had a hall pass, so I went to the [girls’] bathroom. I heard people saying, “Hey, faggot.” They slammed my head into a locker. I fell to the ground and they started to kick the shit out of me. I had to have stitches. The school kicked me out, not the bullies. Years later, I went to a coffee shop in Petaluma, and I ran into one of the girls who’d kicked me, and she said, “Winona, Winona, can I have your autograph?” and I said, “Do you remember me? I went to Kenilworth. Remember how, in seventh grade, you beat up that kid?” and she said, “Kind of,” and I said, “That was me. Go f— yourself!”

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[bistec-37]

Thinking about when I was at my summer camp gift shop and I casually met the drummer for the national

[nomairuins]

my tags on that went on for so long i had to go back and edit them to fit tag limit and i still had to delete a bunch of them. Its the autism it literally is

[howdoesone]

How does one bond over the fact that their biological dad might have been a Jedi Knight (or at least used “The Force”)?

In a world where modern reproductive technology has created new ways for families to come together, children conceived through sperm donation often find themselves with unique and sometimes humorous stories about their origins. One particularly imaginative and entertaining scenario is bonding over the idea that their biological dad might have been a Jedi Knight—or at least someone who…

[freepressjournals]

Aamir Khan’s Haircut Drama: A Response to Heartbreak

Aamir Khan, known for his perfectionism and intense dedication to his craft, has always been candid about his personal life. In a throwback to a 1999 episode of Rendezvous with Simi Garewal, Aamir shared a surprising and emotional story about how he once shaved his head in response to a breakup.

A Reaction to Heartbreak

During the interview, Aamir Khan was asked if his shaved head was for his role in the 1984 film Holi directed by Ketan Mehta. He revealed that it wasn’t for the film, but rather a reaction to a personal heartbreak. “A lot of people think I shaved my head for the film, when in fact I shaved my head for some other reason altogether,” Aamir explained. He described how a girl he loved told him she no longer felt the same, prompting him to shave off his hair as a dramatic response.

Aamir reflected on this act with a sense of humor and self-awareness, calling it “a childish and immature thing to do.” He recounted how, when meeting Ketan Mehta for the film, he jokingly said, “Gone with the girl!” about his missing hair.

Acknowledging His Intense Nature

When asked about his intensity in relationships, Aamir acknowledged his passionate nature. He admitted that he respected the decision of the girl who left him, saying, “If she felt she didn’t love me or value me, it was something that I completely respect and till today I respect that decision of hers.”

A Love Letter in Blood

Aamir also shared another story about his younger days, revealing that he once wrote a love letter in blood to his then-girlfriend, Reena Dutta. This gesture didn’t go over well, and Reena was quite upset. Aamir described it as his “immature way of interpreting love” and advised young people against similar dramatic expressions of affection. “You don’t need to do that to express your love for a person,” he said.

Life and Relationships

Aamir married Reena Dutta in 1986, with whom he has two children, Junaid and Ira. The couple divorced in 2002. Aamir later married filmmaker Kiran Rao in 2005, but they also parted ways in 2021.

Aamir Khan’s reflections on these past events highlight his journey from youthful impulsiveness to a more mature perspective on relationships and personal expression.

[livewellnews]

"Twinkle Khanna's Hilarious Take on Motherhood: From Rotis to Modern Parenting"

In her latest column for the Times of India, Twinkle Khanna, the renowned author and entrepreneur, delves into the profound shifts in maternal roles and responsibilities from her own upbringing to her experiences as a parent. As Mother’s Day swept across social media, Twinkle chose to reflect on the multifaceted demands placed on modern-day mothers.

Recalling the simpler duties of her mother, Dimple Kapadia, which included ensuring her and her sister Rinke’s dietary and grooming needs were met, Twinkle juxtaposes them with her own diverse roles as a contemporary mother. From playing the roles of therapist, event organizer, stylist, educator, motivational guide, to even being a nutritionist and hairdresser, the responsibilities have evolved significantly.

While Twinkle reminisces about her childhood social escapades, like chasing chickens or collecting bottle caps for contests, she contrasts them with the challenges faced by present-day mothers. Managing screen time, adhering to gentle parenting techniques, and shielding children from potential scars are just a few of the complexities modern mothers navigate.

Injecting humor into her narrative, Twinkle shares an amusing anecdote involving her husband, actor Akshay Kumar, inadvertently likening her to a cow during her early days of motherhood. His casual remark about her being “unavailable” because she was “milking” humorously symbolized her transition from a glamorous figure to a nurturing mother.

Delving deeper, Twinkle explores the myriad struggles modern mothers face. Balancing childcare, career aspirations, and personal well-being while navigating societal expectations can feel like an uphill battle. She questions whether the modern approach of shielding children from the realities of the world results in homogeneity among today’s youth, with their similar behaviors, attire, and interests.

Acknowledging the pressure to strike a delicate balance in parenting, Twinkle reflects on the perpetual sense of guilt and blame that accompanies motherhood. Whether it’s granting too much freedom or being perceived as overly controlling, the journey remains fraught with uncertainty and judgment.

Ultimately, Twinkle’s poignant exploration serves as a tribute to the resilience and adaptability of mothers through the ages, as they continue to navigate the ever-changing landscape of parenthood with humor, grace, and love.

[hiyori-ii]

tipsy and horny

what else could a girl want out of her thursday evening?

[esonetwork]

Las Vegas and The Rat Pack | Tales From Hollywoodland

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Las Vegas and The Rat Pack | Tales From Hollywoodland

Step into the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas’ golden era with our latest episode of The Tales From Hollywoodland Podcast! Join us as we journey through the captivating history of the Rat Pack and their legendary reign over the iconic city. From Frank Sinatra’s smooth crooning to the high-stakes antics of Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., we uncover the untold stories and behind-the-scenes secrets of this fabled era. Whether you’re a fan of classic entertainment or simply intrigued by the allure of vintage Vegas, this episode offers a front-row seat to one of Hollywood’s most celebrated chapters. Tune in now for an immersive dive into the dazzling world of the Rat Pack and the unforgettable legacy they left on the Las Vegas strip!

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