Some people don't want to know it because it obliterates everything they have been made to believe.

By Larry Viezel with photography by John Jay ~ "As "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" celebrates its golden jubilee, we asked several of the original castmembers to reflect on the film's enduring and outsize legacy." www.interviewmagazine.com/film/50-year...

It is with heavy hearts that we have all had to bid farewell to one of our greatest dames - the one and only Patricia Routledge. She has gone to that great sleek white slimline telephone in the sky, with last number redial no doubt. Soar on, Dame Patricia. Soar on. 🌠💫 She was 96.

Soar on, Dr. Jane Goodall. Soar on. 🌠💫 Thank you for sharing yourself with the world. 🦍🌏🐒🌍🦧

"I cannot stand light. I hate weather. My idea of Heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another." ~ English stage and screen actor, Peter O'Toole (1932 - 2013)

www.unomagazine.co.nz/main-blog/in... By Karl Puschmann with photos by Graeme Murray ~ "Enter the surreal world of actor, writer and musician Richard O’Brien. Residing in Katikati, he takes us on a journey through the history of the world-shaking musical he wrote 50 years ago."

The Man. 💜

"The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror." ~ English stage and screen actor, Tim Curry

"If you're only trading on looks and your body, that's only going to go so far. But that was never my bag. I was always about the whole package." ~ American TV and film actress, Angie Dickinson Happy 94th Birthday to Angie Dickinson!

Why rock the boat when you can capsize it? 🌊

Soar on, Claudia Cardinale. Soar on. 💫🌠🥀🍷💀

"Experience is never at a bargain price." ~ American-born writer, avid admirer of vegetables, and art collector considered an important part of the 20th Century's Parisian avant-garde, Alice B. Toklas (1887 - 1967)

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Most are born into this world blind and most exit it the very same way. It is, sadly, just the set of circumstances under which the world exists and the majority of its inhabitants live and die. It is also part of the human condition. It is precisely what the Allegory of the Cave is about.

"What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon." ~ English singer and songwriter, Siouxsie Sioux

Image: Photo of Eartha Kitt (1954) by Philippe Halsman (1906 - 1979).

I still miss him very much. He quietly departed this realm on my birthday in 2022. Thank you, Marcus, for being such an important part of my life. 🥀

Indeed. Most people would have a difficult time with the truth about much.

"People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, did people call it 'The Renaissance'?" ~ American stage and screen actress, Anne Meara (1929 - 2015) Happy Birthday in Memory of Anne Meara. 🍷

"I don’t know if I’ll ever work again. Genet hasn’t written anymore madams." ~ American stage and screen actress, Grayson Hall (1923 - 1985) Happy Birthday in Memory of Grayson Hall. 🦇🚬

For whatever reason, all the women squirted cream over him while all the men wanted to be him. I appreciated what he did through the Sundance Film Festival opening opportunities to thousands of independent filmmakers the world over. Soar on, Mr. Redford. Soar on. 💫🌠 He was 89.

"I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good." ~ English stage and screen actress and former model, Dame Joanna Lumley

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This video by Future Talent UK from 2023 to mark the 90th birthday of the Duchess of Kent sheds some light on her role as a music teacher at a primary school in Hull. It was a position she held for 11 years - one that required the Queen's permission. youtu.be/-Cy3Bk76Pzg?...

Question that which you have always perceived as "authority" at any rate. Or as Dame Diana Rigg said to me once, "QUESTION EV'RYTHING!" 🧠

It has been two years to the day since he left me. I hope he continues to soar on. 💫🐾🌠

"The news and the truth are not the same thing." ~ American political commentator, writer and journalist, Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)

"I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records." ~ American historian and researcher of the evolution of civilizations, Carroll Quigley (1910 - 1977)

"To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.” ~ Manly P. Hall (1901 - 1990) Image: "Urusvati Agni Yoga (Helena Roerich)" (2015) by L.R. Tsesyulevich.

"Sex is just another real good drug....and it can make a junkie out of you." ~ American stage and screen actress, Elizabeth Ashley Happy Birthday to one of my favourite people on the face of the planet - Ms. Elizabeth Ashley. 🍸🌹 Photo by Joan Marcus.

"I must have been hypnotized by the spotlight. I never realized I was being culturally deprived -- that I was having a lousy upbringing." ~ American stage and screen actress and comic, Martha Raye (1916 - 1994). Happy Birthday in Memory of show biz dynamo Martha Raye. 🎂🥂✨

Happy 86th Birthday to Lily Tomlin. 🧁🥂 "Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it." ~ American actress and comedian, Lily Tomlin Image: Photo by Kanya Iwana.

"When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future...." ~ Alice Coltrane (1937 - 2007) Happy Birthday in Memory of Alice Coltrane. 🌀

"I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought." ~ American art collector, Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979) 🍷Happy Birthday in Memory of Peggy Guggenheim.