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Lobby Card Gallery - Been gathering together an out-of-control collection of lobby card images and sharing/organizing as much for my own sanity as for your viewing pleasure. I literally have thousands of images catalogued and ready to share - so if this is your kind of thing, bookmark it for regular updates. In the meantime, here's some links to a few of my faves or you can view them all here:
One of my new year's resolutions is to be ruthless about cleaning up all kinds of dead links and lost thoughts that got away from me around the website. Stay tuned... I may or may not follow through, only time will tell. In the meantime... kitteh says hi.
I was recently watching the Blues Brothers, and was reminded how many stars signed up for cameos in is this classic flick from 1980. Star after star shows up... big and small... fun for movie buffs like me to grab some popcorn and go starsearching. I am happy to say that this movie has more cameos than a Victorian jewelry convention. BA dum bum.
In the words of Elwood Blues, "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don’t fail me now” -- here's the rundown as I see it of 16 recognizable faces. Supposedly Mr. T is in one of the street scenes, but I haven't been able to find a picture of him. I guess it just gives me an excuse to watch the movie again, for the 47th time or so....
Row 1: Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher Row 2: Chaka Khan, Frank Oz, Henry Gibson Row 3: James Brown, Joe Walsh, John Candy Row 4: John Lee Hooker, Kathleen Freeman, Paul Ruebens Row 5: Ray Charles, Steve Lawrence, Steven Spielberg and last but not least Row 6:Twiggy.
This movie is chock full of musical stars, so suffice it to say, it's also chock full of awesome musical numbers. Not in that burst into song for no reason kind of way, well maybe a little, but the music is a big part of the story too. One of my favorite numbers is Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher. He sings it while stalling for the Brothers Blue while they try to get to the big show. Classic. You know that Minnie, she's just a red hot hoochie coocher.
When they're not being jailed for not showing enough fake emotion over the death of their dasterdly dictator, the North Korean People's Army sure know how to cut a rug. Well, not really, but I thought this video was cleverly edited. It made me smile. At least this is one thing about North Korea that makes me smile....
I'm not gonna bore you with the mundane facts about teeth like humans have two sets in their lifetime, specifically 20 baby (or "milk") teeth and 32 adult (or "permanent") teeth. Nor am I going to share about how proper oral hygiene prevents a host of health issues including heart disease. Instead, I am going to dazzle you with some off-the-wall and remotely interesting facts & figures about teeth and teeth-adjacent topics. So sit back and learn a little something, why don't ya. It's not gonna hurt.
1. Wanna dress up your smile? Ever thought about getting a tooth tattoo?? Yeah, me neither. However, if you're so inclined, go check out toothartist.com. They've developed a method of tattooing on dental crowns for a unique look. I love the David Letterman shown above... with that in your mouth, how could every day not be a party? Also wondering why you want a picture of the Queen Mother or Tiger Woods in your mouth. Why? And take into account this incredulity is coming from someone with an Elvis tattoo. Anyway, go check out their site and see more examples.
2. Steve Martin has provided us with more than one memorable, toothy movie moment including his classic turn as the demented dentist in Little Shop of Horrors - the perfect counterpart to Bill Murray's masochistic patient. Classic. He also starred in 2001s dark comedy, Novocaine as yet another deluded dentist. This time he plays Dr. Frank Sangster, and gets accused of murder due to his involvement with a shady patient. The movie's not great but it's a good example of Steve showing off his more serious acting chops, plus, Laura Dern always brings the crazy.
Interested in more dentist movies? What's wrong with you??? Well, lucky for you, there's no shortage for you to catch up on. Check out The Dentist with W.C. Fields, The Secret Lives of Dentists with Hope Davis and Campbell Scott, Bob Hope as Paleface, Alan Arkin in The In-Laws and Sam Waterston in Serial Mom.
3. Prince Charles is way too important to squeeze his own toothpaste onto the royal toothbrush. Instead his personal valet, Michael Fawcett, is the only person Charles trusts with this awesome responsibility. One must presume that Charlie's morning breath and dental hygiene declines exponentially whenever the valet goes on vacation. Yikes. [MSNBC.com]
4. China celebrates September 20th as a national holiday known as “Love Your Teeth Day.” That's a lot of teeth, people. If the average person has 25 teeth (accounting for children, etc), then that's approximately 33,457,487,500 teeth.
5. Contrary to popular legend, our first president George Washington, did not have teeth made out of wood. Instead, he had many pairs of dentures made of all kinds of innovative materials including, of all things, hippopotamus teeth. He also had teeth made out of ivory, lead, human teeth, cow and sheep's teeth. Makes you wonder if he endured any level of lead poisoning and whether or not it affected his judgement. Lead teeth, think about that. Heavy. lol.
6. Cleaning one's teeth has been a concern since the beginning of time. You can't convince me that Adam and Eve didn't get a strawberry seed wedged between two molars that drove them crazy enough to seek out a solution. Since the middle ages, people have used everything from burnt bread to ground-up chalk or charcoal, lemon juice, ashes and even a mixture of tobacco and honey to clean their teeth. In ancient times more primitive materials like bones & oyster shells did the abrasive work. By 1900, a paste made of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda was recommended for use with toothbrushes. Pre-mixed toothpastes were first marketed in the 19th century, but did not surpass the popularity of tooth-powder until the 1920s.
7. St. Apollonia is the patron saint of dentistry. In 249 AD Rome, a woman named Apollonia was tortured and killed for her Christian faith. Legend has it that “her tormentors broke her teeth with iron points, and extracted the roots with tongs.” The legend also says that after her teeth were broken, she was given a choice of renouncing her faith or being burned alive, whereupon she voluntarily jumped into the fire. Her suffering resulted in her canonization as the Patron Saint of Dentistry in 300 AD.
The following is a prayer to Saint Apollonia: “Apollonia, Apollonia, Holy Saint in Heaven, see my pain in yourself. Free me from evil pain, for my toothache may torture me to death.”
8. An elephant in the wild grinds his several-hundred-pound-a-day diet of vegetation with his four large molars, two uppers and two lowers. The wear-and-tear warranty on these molars is up after ten years as they are gradually worn down to the gum line and drop out. These are soon replaced by another set of grinding molars, but each elephant only gets up to six sets of molars within its lifetime. Each of these molars measures a foot across and weighs between 8 and 10 pounds. Sounds like it would have made a nice paperweight for Fred Flinstone.
9. There have been many many songs written about a smile, but only a few worth mentioning about teeth including Crooked Teeth by Death Cab for Cutie, Summerteeth by Wilco and maybe Skin O My Teeth by Megadeth. Below is my favorite submission, Lady Gaga's homage to chomper charm, simply titled, Teeth.
Don't look back folks, it's a new year. Time to plan big for the future, start projects, turn over leaves etc, etc... in other words, time to get off that ass and get moving. This little video ought to inspire you, if it doesn't make you restless first. It's about three minutes of people walking and walking and walking... always away from you... leading you into the unknown. I found the journey mesmerizing. Come on and take a walk with me?
Well, the holidays are officially coming to a close and I've gotten into a nasty habit of baking and eating cookies over the last few weeks. Seriously, if a cookie has found it's way into my path, it hasn't been allowed to linger for long. So, in an effort to change my sugar-scarfing ways, I decided to LOOK at pictures of cookies online instead of looking for cookie recipes. Imagine the crazy things I found, readers, just imagine!
There seems to be no end to how we will celebrate those famous and infamous folks we collectively admire. We write about them, chase them down in the streets and bake little treats and decorate them with their beautiful faces. That doesn't sound creepy does it? Anyhoo, upon my cookie quest I curated this cute collection of celebrity cookies that I thought you might enjoy.
I had to start with these awesome Glee cookies - they're done so well I'd hate to eat them (yeah right). Actually, they look quite a bit better than the show has looked this season. All the characters are pretty recognizable - although not sure which is Britney and which is Quinn, nor am I sure what's up with Mercedes' hair, but who cares, it's a cookie for crap's sake. Regardless, there's something for everyone in the slideshow below: a little Britney Spears, some Justin Beiber, some homemade Spice Girls and Weird Al and a dash of Willie Nelson just for fun.
Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 06:31PM 
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