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On 25 March, 1969, Judy Garland took to the stage at the Falkoner Center in Copenhagen. As she reached the crescendo of Over the Rainbow – the song which made her a global star aged just 17 – it was unknown to the audience that they were watching her final live performance. Four months later, 47 year-old Garland was found dead in Chelsea, London, after accidentally overdosing on the drugs she had self-medicated with since childhood. One of the headlines would read: “Judy’s voice stilled. The rainbow is gone.

A photo of Judy Garland in blackface has resurfaced on social media, with fans jumping to defend the late child star. The image is a still from the movie Everybody Sing from 1938, and shows a teenage Garland painted to have darker skin, large white lips and dreadlocks. Garland played Judy Bellaire in the musical comedy, who joins a music show as a blackface singer to escape her dysfunctional family. Although the film was released 85 years ago, many people learned of its existence for the first time after the still was shared by X user @browardbully on August 16....

Judy Garland was wonderful. Freepers please tell me more ........

From The Judy Garland Show, taped October 4, 1963 and aired October 6, 1963. A young Barbra Streisand is paired with Judy Garland for this amazing duet. One for the ages

Summer Stock (1950) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #SummerStock To save Jane Falbury's (Judy Garland) Connecticut farm, Jane's sister, Abigail (Gloria DeHaven)

"What good is sitting alone In your room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret, old chum, Come to the Cabaret

Frances Ethel Gumm was born, 100 years ago this week, to a pair of ­entertainer-musicians in Minnesota, with an unprepossessing name that did not deter her from the stage. By the time she was 12, she had changed that name to Judy Garland. By the time she was 17, she had changed the world. In honour of the centenary of her birth, the BFI Southbank and its partner cinemas across the UK are running a season of Garland’s films, “A Star is Reborn”. It’ll feature the most famous of them – Meet Me in St Louis, The Wizard of Oz,...

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A lecturer at Catholic University discovered the rare costume wrapped in a trash bag in a drama department office Four people, a scarecrow, Tin Man, Dorothy and a lion, walk arm in arm down a yellow brick road A publicity still from The Wizard of Oz. A lecturer at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. recently stumbled onto one of the costumes worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film. (Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images) By Nora McGreevy SMITHSONIANMAG.COM JULY 12, 2021 9:58AM 45 For decades, members of the Catholic University of America (CUA) drama department traded...

Senator Elizabeth Warren is embroiled in controversy once again, this time after she admitted to wearing racially offensive "paleface" at a costume party back in her college days.

In London fifty years ago today - June 22nd 1969 - a nightclub manager Mickey Deans walked into the bathroom of his rented house in a Belgravia mews and found his wife of three months dead. Judy Garland was just forty-seven. The cause of death was an accidental - or, as the English coroner put it, "incautious" - overdose of barbiturates. Talent requires a certain managerial competence, which is why Frank Sinatra died at eighty-two owing Capitol Records an album and his pal Judy died a little over half that age and leaving an estate worth $40,000. We shall have...

Did you know that John F. Kennedy had more than four children? That writers Christopher and Peter Hitchens had two other siblings? That Marilyn Monroe actually had a large number of children? I’m not particularly fond of the argument that I’ve heard many pro-lifers use: “Abortion is wrong because of all the amazing people we’ve aborted. One of them could have had the cure to cancer!” Abortion is fundamentally wrong because it ends the life of a developing human being, whether that human being would turn out to be a drug addict or the president of the United States....

Named Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Mich., Judy Garland was born 90 years ago today, June 10, 1922. She sang with her two sisters, Mary Jane and Dorothy Virginia, as part of the Gumm Sisters, who worked the vaudeville circuit for many years in the 1930s.

http://www.yahoo.com/?s=https Breaking news:Kendrick Meek wins Florida Democratic Senate primary, to face Charlie Crist (I) and Marco Rubio (R) in Novemb

Yesterday I wondered if a Rasmussen poll in Florida’s Senate race showing Charlie Crist leading with 38 percent, Marco Rubio at 34 percent, and Kendrick Meek at 17 percent could be somehow off-kilter. Now Mason-Dixon, one of the pollsters I trust most, offers similar numbers: Crist 38, Rubio 32, Meek 19.

Scott Rothstein Jailed By Bob Norman Tue., Dec. 1 2009 @ 12:08PM Wearing a black T-shirt (it was designer, probably Ed Hardy; I don't know clothes), designer jeans, a pair of silver-colored handcuffs in U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin...

Interesting fun fact of the day: The G5 that Scott Rothstein flew to Morocco and back was apparently arranged for Rothstein by Blue Star Jets. Blue Star Jets is owned by Todd Rome. Todd Rome is the ex-husband of Carol Rome. Carol Rome is the current wife of Florida governor and U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Crist. Charlie Crist is a guy who counted Rothstein as a friend and huge political donor.

Rumors are circulating that Scott Rothstein, whose current whereabouts aren't known, spent a marathon 18 hours in talks with federal prosecutors last night and this morning. ​Sources say he was not only confessing to his own crimes but pointing the finger at others, including Gov. Charlie Crist, who was so close to Rothstein that he visited his home, dined with him, and attended a party at his wedding last year at the Versace mansion.

There are some amazing stories brewing on the Scott Rothstein front, but while I'm reporting those, let's look at his cars.