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...MacLaine, 90, writes: 'In 1962, at the famous celebration for John F Kennedy's 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden, Jimmy Durante and I performed for the president and the crowd, but what most people remember is Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday" to him.'Afterward there was a private party at Arthur Krim's home...'In the caption to a black and white photograph, in which both she and JFK are in the background, she writes: 'Jack Kennedy had just walked out of the bedroom behind me, and Bobby Kennedy had just walked in.'Marilyn was in the bedroom...'MacLaine also implies this wasn't the first...

Palaeontologists have discovered what they are calling the "Jimmy Durante" of dinosaurs, a type of hadrosaur with a distinctive nasal profile. Named Rhinorex condrupus, the fossil was found by researchers from North Carolina State University and Brigham Young University, and lived in what is now Utah approximately 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. According to National Geographic, the date places the creature in the middle of a major dinosaur radiation, the process by which species adapt to new ecological niches. Rhinorex, which translates roughly into "King Nose", was a plant-eater and a close relative of other Cretaceous...

CONFIDENTIAL MEMO DATE. September 26, 2002 TO: Senator Tom Dachshund FROM Barbra Streisand/Margery Tabankin RE. Your fantabulous speech! As all the world is aware, Brbara Streisand is preparing for her ninth-annual farewell tour, as well as finishing her first-ever, all-by-herself reading of “Green Eggs and Ham,” so she ordered me to “shut the hell up and write down what I want you tell that little guy on the television, you filthy worthless peasant!” Naturally, Brabra's not surprised to see the Busch administration say mean things about peoples of color and those who are less heterosexual than the magority. They’ve always...