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RIP Lena Horne
Posted by torrential1 on 10 May 2010 - 9:37pm.
Amidst the whirlwind of bullshit surrounding the election, you may of missed news of Lena Horne's passing - from another era for sure, but you seldom see such classy performers these days.
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Thanks for posting
Good piece in Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7704729/Storm...
From which this excerpt says it all:
A sometimes savage critic, John Simon, wrote that she was "ageless. ... tempered like steel, baked like clay, annealed like glass; life has chiselled, burnished, refined her."
R.I.P
Her life story reminded me
of Josephine Baker with whom she shared the experiences of racial prejudice. I remember reading about Josephine Baker and one story in particular. In 1951 she was refused entry to the Stork Club in New York, a club where the show-biz elite congregated. Grave Kelly was already in there and upon seeing what was happening to Baker promptly got up, took Baker (whom she'd never met before) by the arm and stormed out with all her guests, swearing never to return. She never did.
Classy dames all round. The past is indeed another country.
Wow
That's a great quote Sheev.
She outlived Sheriff Clark
by one year or so, I think.