#Alan MacLean

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have you seen plankett and macleane (1999)? unfortunately my overall verdict is “not camp enough” but it has jlm and robert carlyle reunion! feat jlm being pinned to the wall again just like in trainspotting; liv tyler wearing men’s clothes for like one scene and making out w jlm; some questionable jokes; alan cumming as bisexual lord who has a weird gay thing going on w robert carlyle (underrated romance of da movie tbh); vague throuple vibes maybe?? but mostly jlm and robert carlyle

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The true tragedy is that tumblr dot com hasn't caught on to this film (yet?)

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lord rochester in his big stupid hat

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'M*A*S*H: Complete Series' on Hulu

‘M*A*S*H: Complete Series’ on Hulu

The joke at the networks was that the hit sitcom M*A*S*H (1972-1983), based on Richard Hooker’s novel and Robert Altman’s anarchic 1970 film about an American surgical unit in the Korean War, lasted longer than the war itself. True enough, and over the 11-year run of the show it evolved from irreverent comedy and cartoonish characters to socially conscious comedy that used humor to delve into…

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … April 16

1061 The first recorded same-sex wedding occurred when Pedro Díaz and Muño Vandilaz were married by a priest at a small chapel in Rairiz de Veiga, Galicia, Spain. The records and historic documents about the church wedding were found at the Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova. It is not known whether the priest was aware of the gender of both.

1911 – Born: Guy Burgess (d.1963), a British-born intelligence officer and double agent who worked for the Soviet Union and was part of the Cambridge Five spy ring who betrayed allied secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War. Burgess and Anthony Blunt contributed to the Soviet cause with the transmission of secret Foreign Office and MI5 documents that described Allied military strategy.

Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess was the son of a naval officer and although he attended Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, he failed to follow in his father's footsteps.

Like most of the Cambridge five, he came from a privileged background, attending Eton College, and eventually attending Cambridge University, where he was recruited into the Cambridge Apostles, a secret, elite, debating society, whose members at the time included Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby.

Notorious for his bad behaviour and overt alcoholism, Burgess initially worked for The Times and, briefly, the BBC, as the producer of The Week in Westminster, covering Parliamentary activity - wherein he was able to further his acquaintance with important politicians. He spent some time in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Burgess and the other members of the 'Five' were divided with regard to the impact of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which compromised their hard left ideals as Soviet Russia and the Nazis agreed on the division of most of Eastern Europe.

He was most useful to the Soviets in his position as secretary to the British Deputy Foreign Minister, Hector McNeil. As McNeil's secretary, Burgess was able to transmit top secret Foreign Office documents to the KGB on a regular basis, secreting them out at night to be photographed by his controller and returning them to McNeil's desk in the morning.

Assigned to the British embassy in the USA, Burgess continued his life as an unpredictable heavy drinker and indiscreet homosexual. He lived with Kim Philby in a basement flat, perhaps so that Philby could keep an eye on him. Nonetheless, Burgess was irrepressible, once insulting the wife of a high-ranking CIA official at one of Philby's dinner parties. The FBI allegedly described him in a report as 'a loud, foul-mouthed queer with a penchant for seducing hitchhikers'.

After he was unmasked as a double agent, Burgess moved to Moscow on a moonlit flight with Donald Maclean, arranged by controller Yuri Modin. However, unlike Donald Maclean who became a respected Soviet citizen in exile and lived until the 1980s, Burgess seems not to have taken to life in the USSR so well. Homosexuality was much more frowned upon in the Soviet Union, and this may have been a problem, even though he had a state-sanctioned lover. Also, unlike Maclean, he never bothered to learn Russian, and even continued to order his clothes from his Saville Row tailor.

Becoming ever more dependent on drink, he appears to have been killed by his alcoholism, aged 52.The Julian Mitchell-penned play and film Another Country and the Alan Bennett play An Englishman Abroad were both either inspired by or directly based on Burgess's life.

1914 – Columbus, Ohio, Mayor George Karb orders police to stop making arrests for gambling and vice. It is three years before his action becomes public, but the number of sodomy arrests in the city drops to zero.

1919 – Merce Cunningham (d.2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years.

He is also notable for his frequent collaborations with artists of other disciplines, including musicians John Cage and David Tudor, artists Robert Rauschenberg and Bruce Nauman, designer Romeo Gigli, and architect Benedetta Tagliabue. Works that he produced with these artists had a profound impact on avant-garde art beyond the world of dance.

Merce Cunningham was born in Centralia, Washington in 1919, the second of three sons. Cunningham initially received his first formal dance and theater training at the Cornish School (now Cornish College of the Arts) in Seattle, which he attended from 1937-9 at age 20. During this time, Martha Graham saw Cunningham dance and invited him to join her company.

In the fall of 1939, Cunningham moved to New York and began a six-year stint as a soloist in the company of Martha Graham. He presented his first solo concert in New York in April 1944 with composer John Cage, who became his life partner and frequent collaborator until Cage's death in 1992.

Along with painters Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Cunningham and Cage became part of a circle of young gay artists whose ideas not only challenged the macho self-expressive Abstract Expressionists, who were to dominate the 1950s New York art scene, but also provided a model or alternative creative process that became the hallmark of post-modern art.

In the summer of 1953, as a teacher in residence at Black Mountain College, Cunningham formed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as a forum to explore his new ideas on dance and the performing arts.

Over the course of his career, Cunningham choreographed more than 200 dances and over 800 "Events," which are site-specific choreographic works. In 1963 he joined with Cage to create the Walker Art Center's first performance, instigating what would be a 25-year collaborative relationship with the Walker. In his performances, he often used the I Ching in order to determine the sequence of his dances and, often, dancers were not told until the night of the performance. In addition to his role as choreographer, Cunningham performed as a dancer in his company into the early 1990s.

Cunningham's relationship with Cage endured for 54 years, until Cage's death in 1992. The personal and professional collaboration between the two men made them role models for several generations of gay men and lesbians.

He continued to lead his dance company until his death, and presented a new work, Nearly Ninety, in April 2009, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, to mark his 90th birthday.

1931 – Leo Bersani (d.2022) was an American academic, known for his contributions to French literary criticism and queer theory. He was best known for his 1987 essay "Is the Rectum a Grave?" and his 1995 book Homos. He played a central role in debates about gay and queer identity at the height of the AIDS crisis.

Bersani was born in the Bronx. He studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1952 with a bachelor’s in Romance languages, and with a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1958. He taught at Wellesley College and Rutgers University before joining University of California, Berkeley in 1972, where he'd remain for the rest of his career, assuming emeritus status in 1996.

Male homosexuality was not the mirror image of heterosexuality, he argued, but something radically different, lacking many of the patriarchal inequalities that he said defined straight life.

“Far from apologizing for their promiscuity as a failure to maintain a loving relationship,” he wrote, “gay men should ceaselessly lament the practical necessity, now, of such relations, should resist being drawn into mimicking the unrelenting warfare between men and women.”

He met his partner, Sam Geraci in 1992. They married in 2014.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

He died at a care facility in Peoria, Arizona, on February 20, 2022, at the age of 90.

1934 – Robert Stigwood (d.2016) was an Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer and impresario, best known for managing Cream and the Bee Gees, theatrical productions like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, and film productions including the extremely successful Grease and Saturday Night Fever.

Stigwood was born in 1934 in Port Pirie, South Australia, the son of an electrical engineer. He was educated at Sacred Heart College in Adelaide.

Stigwood found a job in an institution for "backward teenage boys" in East Anglia after his arrival in England. He worked briefly for Hector Ross at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth, Hampshire, before Ross left and the theatre closed. Around this time he met the young Paul Jones who would later front Manfred Mann. He then met businessman Stephen Komlosy with whom he founded Robert Stigwood Associates Ltd, a small theatrical agency.

The brief partnership between Robert Stigwood Associates and Joe Meek is claimed to have changed the British recording industry to a great extent. A poor business decision had meant that "Angela Jones" by Michael Cox, released on his own Triumph label, could not be manufactured in sufficient quantities to meet demand after Cox performed the song on a popular TV music show. While the record did make an appearance in the Top Ten, it proved that Meek needed the support of a major record company.

Meek's first single with John Leyton, a cover of Ray Peterson's U.S. hit "Tell Laura I Love Her", was recorded in late 1960. Originally intended for release on Meek's Triumph label, that label had by now folded and the recording was instead leased to the Top Rank label, owned by the Rank Organisation. Another British version by Ricky Valance though, was more successful.

Stigwood was understood to be gay. Despite the severe legal situation in Britain until the Sexual Offences Act 1967 decriminalised homosexual acts in private, it would not have been a disadvantage for Stigwood's career, as other important figures in the music industry were also gay. Some Australian music writers have suggested that the main reason why so few Australian acts were able to break into the UK music scene in the 1960s was that they were locked out by the so-called "Pink Mafia" that supposedly dominated British show business.

The next development in Stigwood's career as a manager came several weeks after his connection with NEMS began. Teenage vocal group the Bee Gees had just returned to the UK, after many years in Australia, with hopes of a career in the UK.

Within months their first international single, "New York Mining Disaster 1941", had become a major British and American hit reaching the top 20 in both markets, while "Massachusetts" reached number 1 in the UK and number 11 in the US, continuing a string of Bee Gees hits through the late 1960s.

Also during 1967, Stigwood purchased a controlling interest in Associated London Scripts, a writers' agency co-founded by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes around 1954, in which many of Britain's best comedy and television scriptwriters had been involved. Beryl Vertue from ALS was appointed as deputy chairman; Vertue was responsible for selling the formats to American producers of the TV series All in the Family and Sanford and Son, which were adapted from the popular British TV shows Till Death Us Do Part and Steptoe and Son.

Later Stigwood produced stage versions of his other successful film musicals, Saturday Night Fever and Grease; while Grease had existed as a musical before Stigwood's involvement in the film, Stigwood's adaptations added the musical numbers that were original to that film. Stage rights to those numbers are still available for licensing through the Stigwood estate. Stigwood moved into film and TV production in the early 1970s.

Fernós (R) and Felion

1972 – Fausto Fernós is an openly gay Puerto Rican podcaster, performance artist, and drag performer. He originated and co-hosts the Feast of Fun, an award-winning daily comedy talk show, with his partner Marc Felion. They were the first openly gay couple to win a People's Choice Podcast Award, which they have won five times (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011), and been nominated for the top prize of "People's Choice" six times in a row. Fernós currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.

Fausto Fernós was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Fernós left San Juan and enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin at the age of 16 in 1989.

Fernós started the Feast of Fools in Chicago in the spring of 1998 with the Chicago Radical Faeries as a fundraiser for the struggling Randolph Street Gallery.

In 2004, Fausto Fernós turned to audio and video blogging as a way to promote his unusual live musical variety shows. On February 8, 2005 the first Feast of Fools podcast was posted on his LiveJournal blog, FaustoFun. Within several weeks of posting shows, the audience for the online show grew beyond the size of the local Chicago audience. In 2009, the name of the show was changed from Feast of Fools to Feast of Fun to better reflect changes in the program's design and functionality. Along with his partner Marc Felion, Fernós currently hosts the Feast of Fun podcast, one of the top rated talk show for a LGBTQI audiences on iTunes.

1973 – Indiana amends its sodomy law to lower to 18 the age at which a person can be convicted of sodomy for assisting another person to masturbate.

1975 – Sean Maher is an American actor, best known for his role as Simon Tam in the science fiction television series Firefly and follow-up movie Serenity.

Maher starred as the title character, a rookie police officer, on the short-lived TV series Ryan Caulfield: Year One. In 2000 he was one of the main characters on the Fox show The $treet, and he has also appeared on the television series Party of Five (as Adam Matthews) and on CSI: Miami.

He reprised his role from Firefly in the film Serenity (2005). He appeared in the 2005 Lifetime movie The Dive From Clausen's Pier as Michelle Trachtenberg's new love interest. He also appeared as Brian Piccolo in the 2001 remake of Brian's Song.

In 2006, he appeared in the television movie Wedding Wars. After taking a brief break from acting, Maher came back to TV in 2009 as a guest star in Lifetime Television's pilot episode of Drop Dead Diva, followed by 2010 guest appearances in the second season of The Mentalist (CBS), the first season of Human Target (FOX) and the second season of Warehouse 13 (on Syfy).

In 2011 Maher landed a role in the television series The Playboy Club. He played Sean, a closeted gay man who is in a sham marriage with a closeted lesbian Playboy Bunny. He appeared in eight episodes, in 2011 and 2012, in another series, Make It or Break It, as the character Marcus. He played the villainous Don John in Joss Whedon's 2012 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.

In 2014, Maher starred as Dick Grayson/Nightwing in "Son of Batman", a direct-to-video animated film. It is part of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies.

Maher and his partner Paul have two adopted children: Sophia Rose (born 2007) and Liam Xavier (born 2010). Following the birth of their daughter, Maher took two years off from acting to be a stay-at-home dad. He publicly came out as gay in 2011, using his role as a closeted gay man on The Playboy Club as a platform.

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'Authors Against Book Bans' Mobilizes

by Emma Kantor

A group of children’s authors is rallying against the rising number of book bans and challenges nationwide, speaking out about the erasure of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices. Under the leadership of Samira Ahmed, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Gayle Forman, Alan Gratz, Joanna Ho, David Levithan, Sarah MacLean, Ellen Oh, Christina Soontornvat, and Magie Tokuda-Hall, Authors Against Book Bans has already made an impact in the ongoing battle for the freedom to read.

Levithan told PW that the coalition evolved organically from a shared sense of urgency. “Over the past couple years, whenever I would talk to other authors, a number of us expressed extreme frustration and concern about what was going on. And it was always a conversation about ‘what can we do?’ The side that was banning books was organized—both on a national and state level. So it became really apparent that we, as authors, could be the spine to the body that was organizing to fight book bans.” Discussions began in earnest at the end of 2023, and AABB launched this past January.

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28 September 2022 Princess Royal, Alan Hay, Ken MacLean of Denboig, Allan Maclean of Dochgarroch, Malcolm Duck at the Royal Celtic Society's 200th gala dinner in Holyrood Palace Edinburgh © Clan Maclean Association Scotland

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Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968

Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm

Transcript Below

We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.

We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.

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Release: March 20, 2020

Lyrics:

It's the middle of the night, what the fuck we gon' do?

It seems you're all talk, baby, all talk, ooh

I could smell the cigarette smoke falling from you

Got me alone, what the fuck we gon' do?

You hate those West Coast plastic, tinsel, botox, perfect smiles (I'm, high)

You're a lonely wallflower, old school type of anti-style

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

They know how to have fun, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

They know how to have fun, they know how to have fun

They've been talking up a game so let's play some Risk

Talking big, talking shit, just like this

I would rather posers than your attitude

You got me alone, what the fuck you gon' do? (fuck you gon' do?)

You hate those West Coast plastic, tinsel, botox, perfect smiles (I'm, high)

You're a lonely wallflower, old school type of anti-style

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

They know how to have fun, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

They know how to have fun, they know how to have fun

You hate those West Coast plastic, tinsel, botox, perfect smiles (I'm, high)

You're a lonely wallflower, old school type of anti-style

Songwriter:

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

Maybe we could be like the others, they know how to have fun

They know how to have fun, they know how to have fun

Alan O'Connell / Alex Hosking / Barry Douglas Maclean / Mark Alston / Peter Conigliaro / Rebecca Tello

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Happy 48th Birthday the Bonnie Scottish actress Kirsty Mitchell.

Born in Glasgow in 1974,Kirsty is a prominent Scottish actress with a rich body of work across film, television and theatre. She trained at the prestigious Central School of Ballet in London before being crowned the coveted title of “Miss Scotland” at the age of just seventeen.

Kirstyl’s initial break-through performance came as Robert Duvall’s daughter in the film A Shot at Glory, she has since appeared in many TV shows and films including the American mini-series “Attila”, as the seductive “Princess Honoria” opposite fellow Scot Gerard Butler, Jodie Banks in the Scottish soap River City and Iona MacLean in Monarch of the Glen.

Kirsty is probably the only person to play two different regular parts in the hospital dramas, Holby City and it’s “sister” show Casualty. While most actors appearing in both shows have played the same character in crossover roles, Kirsty first showed up in Holby City in 2003, and played the part of psychiatrist Doctor Anita Forbes for 10 episodes, Kirsty is currently in Casualty as Faith Cadogan an advanced clinical practitioner. She was recently in the Irvine Welsh penned Creation Stories, the story of Alan McGee 

Other shows Kirsty has appeared in are Case Histories, The Royal Today, Hollyoaks and Silent Witness to name but a few. She also starred in the lead role of Laney in the first play written as such by controversial Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, You’ll Have Had Your Hole.

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My 2022 list of books really worth reading (according to me)

In no particular order:

A Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks

Emma by Jane Austen

Daybook, the Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

The Trees by Percival Everett

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Dr Anil Seth

On the Line: Notes from a Factory by Joseph Ponthus

Of these, almost half are non fiction. I'm surprised by this as I generally read a lot more fiction than non-fiction. Here’s to many more great books next year ⭐️

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My Long Running Blog: The Hare's Tale!

Into The New Year!

On The Menu: Alan Stivell/Music

The Trooping Fairies – Changelings Whit Griffin Poems

Martyn Bennett & Sorley MacLean/Poetry-Music https://gwyllm.com/2023/01/04/into-the-new-year/

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lord rochester eyebrow piercing, my beloved

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Hawkeye: "I've watched guys die every day, why didn't I cry for them?"

Henry: "Because you're a doctor."

Hawkeye: "...the hell does that mean..."

Henry: "I don't know. If I had the answer I'd be at the Mayo Clinic. Does this look like the Mayo Clinic? Look, all I know is what they taught me at Command School. There are certain rules about a war. And rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is doctors can't change rule number one."

Hawkeye: "You believe that?"

Henry: "I don't know."

-- Alan Alda (Hawkeye Pierce) and MacLean Stevenson (Henry Blake) in M*A*S*H, Season 1, Episode 17: Sometimes You Hear the Bullet (1972)

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Illustrations by Rory Alan MacLean

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Birthdays 6.14

Beer Birthdays

George Schmitt (1833)

John Seiler (1833)

Bob Brown (1886)

Warren Pawsey (1963)

John Bryant (1966)

Rick Kempen (1969)

James Costa (1972)

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Bartlett; quotation collector (1820)

Margaret Bourke-White; photographer (1904)

Diablo Cody; writer (1978)

Che Guevara; physician, Argentine revolutionary (1928)

Jerzy Kosinski; writer (1933)

Famous Birthdays

May Allison; actress (1890)

Rod Argent; rock keyboardist (1945)

Gene Barry; actor (1919)

John Bartlett; author & publisher (1820)

Nicolas Bentley; English author & illustrator (1907)

James Black; Scottish pharmacologist (1924)

Yasmine Bleeth; model, actor (1968)

Alan Carr; English comedian, actor & screenwriter (1976)

René Char; French poet & author (1907)

Cy Coleman; pianist, songwriter (1929)

Laurie Colwin; novelist & short story writer (1944)

Arthur Davis; animator & director (1904)

Ben Davidson; Oakland Raiders DE (1940)

Julie Felix; American-English singer-songwriter(1938)

Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald; Irish Army Officer & painter (1898)

Boy George; pop singer (1961)

Marla Gibbs; actor (1931)

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi; Italian poet (1479)

Steffi Graf; tennis player (1969)

James Gurney; artist and author (1958)

Lucy Hale; actress & singer-songwriter (1989)

Eric Heiden; speed skater (1958)

James Hutton; Scottish naturalist (1726)

Johann Abraham Ihle; German astronomer (1627)

Burl Ives; singer (1909)

Rudolf Kempe; German pianist & conductor (1910)

Judith Kerr; German-English author & illustrator (1923)

Karl Landsteiner; Austrian biologist & physician (1868)

Irmelin Sandman Lilius; Finnish author & poet (1936)

Ida MacLean; British biochemist (1877)

Peter Mayle; English author and screenwriter (1939)

Heather McDonald; comedian, actress & author (1970)

Dorothy McGuire; actor (1916)

Kevin McHale; actor (1988)

Marcus Miller; bass player & composer (1959)

Lise Nørgaard; Danish journalist, author & screenwriter (1917)

Will Patton; actor (1954)

Thomas Pennant; Welsh ornithologist and historian (1726)

Kevin Roche; architect (1922)

W. W. E. Ross; Canadian geophysicist and poet (1894)

Pierre Salinger; journalist (1925)

Nilakantha Somayaji; Indian astronomer & mathematician (1444)

Harriet Beecher Stowe; writer (1811)

Superman; comic book character (1938)

Donald Trump; gazillionaire blowhard (1946)

Harry Turtledove; writer (1949)

June Walker; stage & film actress (1900)

Junior Walker; singer, saxophonist (1931)

Sam Wanamaker; actor (1919)

Harold Wheeler; composer (1943)

Alan White; rock drummer (1949)

Laurence Yep; author & playwright (1948)