Moondance Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Jacques Pépin (born 1935, now 82), French chef, television personality and author, worked after school in his parents' restaurant. He quit school at 13 to apprentice in a kitchen, learning to cook by watching and imitating the chef. At 17, Pépin moved to Paris and worked in some of the best restaurants of the day, training under Lucien Diat at the Plaza Athénée before moving on to Maxim's and Fouquet's. A friend who worked for France's Secretary of the Treasury then led him to a position as personal chef to three heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle. In 1959 Pépin came to the United States to work at Le Pavillon in New York City. He subsequently earned a B.A. from Columbia University's School of General Studies and, in 1972, an M.A. in French literature from the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Here, in his 20s: + bashful, bigvalboy, TruHart1 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Harry Houdini (1874-1926), escape artist. Born Erik Weisz to a Jewish family in Budapest, he came to the U.S. at age 4, made his public debut at age 9 in a trapeze act (billed as "Ehrich, the Prince of the Air"), and later renamed himself after the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. bigvalboy, + honcho, TruHart1 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Wiesław Chrzanowski (1923-2012), politician and lawyer, was a member of the Polish anti-Nazi resistance organization, the Home Army, during World War II. Years later, during the second half of the 1970s, he became associated with the opposition to the communist government in Poland. He helped to draft the statutes establishing the Solidarity trade union and was the lawyer who guided the legal registration process of the organization. From 1991-93, he was the Sejm Marshal (the speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament). Below, he is seen at age 21 (1944) during the Warsaw Uprising, the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement during WWII. + honcho, TruthBTold, bigvalboy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Jon Hinson (1942-1995) was a Republican U.S. Representative for Mississippi's 4th congressional district from 1979 to 1981, and, later, a Washington, DC-based gay rights activist. He worked as a page for Democratic U.S. Representative John Bell Williams in 1959 and, later, served on the staffs of Representatives Charles H. Griffin, a Democrat, and Thad Cochran, a Republican. In 1978, Cochran ran successfully for the Senate and Hinson was elected to succeed him in the House. On October 24, 1977, Hinson survived a fire at the Washington, D.C. Gay Cinema Follies. Firefighters found him under a pile of bodies; he was one of only four men rescued. In 1980, Hinson admitted that, while an aide to Cochran in 1976, he had been arrested for committing an obscene act after he exposed himself to an undercover policeman. Hinson denied that he was homosexual, blamed his problems on alcohol, said he had reformed and refused to resign. Married at the time, he won re-election, but was arrested again on February 4, 1981, and charged with attempted sodomy for performing oral sex on a male employee of the Library of Congress in a restroom of the House of Representatives. The charge was a felony that could have resulted in 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Since both parties were consenting adults (and social attitudes were changing), the U.S. Attorney's office reduced the charge to a misdemeanor. Hinson subsequently received a 30-day jail sentence (suspended) and a year's probation. He resigned on April 13, 1981, three months into his second term in the House, and soon thereafter acknowledged that he was homosexual. He later helped to organize the lobbying group "Virginians for Justice" and fought against the ban on gays in the military. He was also a founding member of the Fairfax (VA) Lesbian and Gay Citizens Association. Hinson died of respiratory failure resulting from AIDS in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of fifty-three. http://imageslogotv-a.akamaihd.net/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:s3.amazonaws.com/articles.newnownext.com-production/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/hinson.jpg-1459100757.png?quality=0.85&format=jpg&width=480 + WilliamM, + honcho and TruHart1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruthBTold Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 Wiesław Chrzanowski (1923-2012), politician and lawyer, was a member of the Polish anti-Nazi resistance organization, the Home Army, during World War II. Years later, during the second half of the 1970s, he became associated with the opposition to the communist government in Poland. He helped to draft the statutes establishing the Solidarity trade union and was the lawyer who guided the legal registration process of the organization. From 1991-93, he was the Sejm Marshal (the speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament). Below, he is seen at age 21 (1944) during the Warsaw Uprising, the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement during WWII. Damn impressive guy for sure. Putting all that aside and saying this only in jest, he is also someone who can truly pull a handgun off (handgun chic). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 Sidney Poitier, born in 1927, turns 91 next week. In 1964, he became the first black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (for Lilies of the Field). His parents, Bahamian farmers, were in Miami to sell their produce when the youngest of their eight sons arrived two months before he was due. He was not expected to survive. Poitier spent his early childhood on Cat Island in the Bahamas. When he was 10, his family moved to Nassau, where he saw an automobile for the first time, and first experienced electricity, plumbing, refrigeration, and motion pictures. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974 and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2009. Here at age 28 in 1955 in his breakout role: Blackboard Jungle TruHart1, TruthBTold, + sync and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 16, 2018 Author Share Posted February 16, 2018 Isaac Burns Murphy (1861-1896) was an African-American jockey considered one of the greatest riders in American Thoroughbred horse racing history. He won the Kentucky Derby three times--on Buchanan in 1884, on Riley in 1890, on Kingman in 1891--and was the first jockey inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame when it was created in 1955. Murphy died young of heart failure (age 35). Since 1995, the National Turf Writers Association has given the Isaac Murphy Award to the jockey with the highest winning percentage for the year in North American racing. Isaac Murphy is pictured here at age 24 in 1885: TruthBTold, + honcho and TruHart1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 16, 2018 Author Share Posted February 16, 2018 Fernando Lamas (1915-1982) . "He looked mahvelous!" . Poolside, at age 36 (1951): Born Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos in Buenos Aires, he made his first film in 1942, his first American picture eight years later. http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8533/8993926353_4058e44919.jpg In 1956, he co-starred with Ethel Merman in the Broadway musical Happy Hunting (both were nominated for Tony Awards, neither won). Merman didn't want to do the show at all. Lamas worried he'd be overshadowed by her. Things were tense between them ... all the moreso because Lamas asked costume designer Irene Sharaff to cut his pants so they would cling as tightly as possible to his big cock. On opening night of the Philadelphia tryout, his appearance drew gasps. Merman expressed displeasure with the book, the score ... and the pants. Here, at age 39 (1954) in Jivaro: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--d5IjIBBS5w/VMkHE4ZmtPI/AAAAAAAAqrA/iG12uI_wzvw/s1600/BU03.JPG TruthBTold, TruHart1 and + WilliamM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) From a Merman biography by Bob Thomas on the 1950s Happy Hunting on Broadway : Once they were far along to sing on stage, Lamas noticed Merman sang all the love songs to the audience not him. He asked her about it. Merman: I have been doing it that way since 193o. Lamas: Huh. That just proves you look your age! Mary Martin who had the some status on Broadway as Merman just deferred to Merman the few times they worked together on TV or in concert. Mary was six years younger and it was not worth the effort. Edited February 17, 2018 by WilliamM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share Posted February 18, 2018 Swedish singer, actor and model Bob Asklöf (1942-2011) was a yé-yé idol* in France during the early 1960s. At 19, during a gig in Tel Aviv, he was spotted by Juliette Greco, who invited him to come to Paris. There, he won a contest organized by the record company Pathé-Marconi and the magazine Cinémonde. His first hit in France was Vous souvenez-vous? (Do you remember?, 1963). He later worked as an actor in film, on stage and on TV, and in the 1970s appeared nude in several French erotic films. By the 1980s, he had left acting to devote himself to painting, and had several exhibitions in Sweden. Bob Asklöf died of cancer at age 69 in Stockholm. * Yé-yé was a style of pop music that emerged in France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal in the early 1960s. The term was derived from the English "yeah! yeah!", popularized by British beat music bands such as the Beatles. beachboy, TruHart1, + Trebor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjkrkwood Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 http://78.media.tumblr.com/5eedc78da7e5e1c98229002bd854554f/tumblr_p2er5k16NC1wp22fzo1_500.jpg + bashful, + honcho, bigvalboy and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 Joe Campbell (1936-2005). The Sugar Plum Fairy. http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bioc1/campbe05/camp06.jpg Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat Went to the Apollo You should have seen him go, go, go They said, hey Sugar, take a walk on the wild side I said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side ... http://www.warholstars.org/joe_campbell_harvey_milk.jpg Joe Campbell (foreground) and Harvey Milk At Riis Park Beach in Queens, on a hot day in July 1956, Harvey Milk couldn't take his eyes off 19-year-old Joe Campbell. Harvey, 26, had found someone who needed him. Joe had found someone who would protect and love him. They were together from 1956 to 1962. http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bioc1/campbe05/camp06a.jpg Harvey and Joe After they broke up, Joe Campbell began hanging around with the Andy Warhol Factory crowd. In 1965 he played a character called "Sugar Plum Fairy" in the Warhol film My Hustler, and was later immortalized in Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side (1972). In addition to knowing Harvey Milk and the Warhol crowd, Campbell had a late 1960s relationship with Oliver "Billy" Sipple, the decorated Vietnam vet who, in 1975, grabbed the gun from Sarah Jane Moore during her assassination attempt on Gerald Ford. Joe Campbell eventually left New York and settled in Marin County, California. In 1993 he donated letters he had received from Harvey Milk to the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society in San Francisco. He died in October 2005 with Stanley Jensen, his partner of 29 years, at his side. Joe, second from the left Joe (dark hair) explains to Paul America how to turn tricks in Warhol's My Hustler (1965): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lROEgXvF0M TruHart1, + WilliamM and beachboy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruthBTold Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 http://78.media.tumblr.com/5eedc78da7e5e1c98229002bd854554f/tumblr_p2er5k16NC1wp22fzo1_500.jpg Was this a dream or from a movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruHart1 Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Was this a dream or from a movie? PHOTOSHOP TruHart1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruthBTold Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 PHOTOSHOP TruHart1 Damn it! It definitely was going to give me a few days worth of jack off material. I suppose it still could. + bashful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Burt Lancaster http://78.media.tumblr.com/6f00dc7e41882331530f8c08c0399b67/tumblr_oiot80f44l1qe4ru4o1_500.gif + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Robert De Niro http://78.media.tumblr.com/f3ad2620343f7ed2f5e437699bad188e/tumblr_n7ktbxlQ9v1t2pbgvo3_400.gif + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Robert Redford http://78.media.tumblr.com/df2c1d9db5c52bc8c2e4773453173f8f/tumblr_p43ctpkY5X1rojphdo1_500.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Jimmy Stewart http://78.media.tumblr.com/d4bd19ceffa43d0359635721e8c87930/tumblr_otjv79TQ6x1v904g0o1_400.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Richard Gere http://78.media.tumblr.com/8c8c87659da142f74efc9e9577a975b1/tumblr_p2bfzzv3rn1rojphdo1_500.jpg TruthBTold and + WilliamM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Jim Carvey http://78.media.tumblr.com/28e53015d5ccb7880c7321d1f7705733/tumblr_p1t0lpkOTN1rojphdo1_500.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Matt Dillon http://78.media.tumblr.com/bfcc6643d3575fec74a48f498c4b85df/tumblr_oyz1r89ZdF1rojphdo1_500.jpg beachboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Maggie Smith http://78.media.tumblr.com/906df0985c048785c12cf863aa0b79ba/tumblr_oz10ugoreO1rojphdo1_500.jpg Gvtire, beachboy and TruthBTold 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 Jules Léotard (1838-1870) was a French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze. He also invented the one-piece gym wear that now bears his name. After passing his law exams, he seemed destined to join the legal profession, but he began to experiment with trapeze bars, ropes and rings suspended over a swimming pool, and later joined the Cirque Napoleon. The costume he invented was a one-piece knitted garment streamlined to suit the safety and agility concerns of trapeze performance. It also showed off his physique, impressed women and inspired the 1867 song by George Leybourne, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. http://78.media.tumblr.com/be6696e627dc6ee5226cf17f92b60c23/tumblr_ozbzyqRIK31qfp1zto1_400.jpg http://www.palaceofvariety.co.uk/USERIMAGES/Leotard%201859%20to%201861(2).jpg http://www.palaceofvariety.co.uk/USERIMAGES/jules%20leotard%20colour(3).jpg + WilliamM and TruHart1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 http://78.media.tumblr.com/be6696e627dc6ee5226cf17f92b60c23/tumblr_ozbzyqRIK31qfp1zto1_400.jpg the world's first VPL photograph??!!!! TruthBTold 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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