Aug 12, 2014

Bucket Of Sads: Lauren Bacall & Robin Williams


Can the week get any worse in Hollywoodland? A true screen legend has just passed.
In the early 1980's, I snuck into a Broadway theatre during intermission (you could do that back then) to see the second half of "Woman Of The Year," a Broadway musical starring the legend herself.

She was electrifying - and I'm not exaggerating. You could feel the audience lean forward every time she swept on stage; her presence was that commanding. They say Hollywood deaths come in threes. Let's hope they're wrong.


Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from Robin William's demise. 


What a terrible loss. Enjoy his singing below and his joyous words here.


And for a special Anonymous friend, here's James Garner with Diahann Carroll at the March on Washington in 1963. This, my friends, is what a man looks like: