#great entertainers

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Remembering Sammy Davis Jr. on his birthday #botd

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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.

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

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Meeting with sexy beauties🔞💦

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good night, Love 😋

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is blue my color? 💙

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Fayard Nicholas (October 20, 1914 – January 24, 2006) 💕

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Somewhere out there, Charlotte is still 1 million mora in debt and waiting for the Wriothesley Scoop

(you can find more of my quest summaries here!)

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Meeting with sexy beauties

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no panties club 😍 wanna join?

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Bert Williams (November 12, 1874 – March 4, 1922)