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Showing posts with label Rupert Everett. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

May 29th

May 29 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 206 days remaining until the end of time.




1660 Charles II is restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth bows to stylish convention advancing jheri curls
1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
1919 Following several awkward boners, Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
1953 Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa lover, Tensing Norgay, are 1st to reach summit of Everest where the thin air causes massive erections
 
1982 "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses hits #62
1985 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months. The other participants finished 13 months earlier.
1993 Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits and 3 walks, he damages his arm, but some corticosteroid injections fix him up good as new.
1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.



1906 T. H. White, gay English writer (The Once and Future King) 
1917 John F. Kennedy, 35th US president 
1926 Charles Denner, maybe gay French actor 
1944 Helmut Berger, bisexual Austrian actor best known for his work with Luchino Visconti (with whom he had an affair) 
1948 Nick Mancuso, Italian-born-Canadian actor 
1959 Dear Rupert Everett, gay English actor/author/rent boy/singer 
1959 Adrian Paul, English actor  
1961 Melissa Etheridge, gay US singer/songwriter  
1962 John D LeMay, maybe gay US actor 
1964 Carlton Wilborn, gay US former Madonna backup dancer turned actor 
1965 Matthew Porretta, maybe gay US actor 
1965 Dursley McLinden, gay Manx actor/AIDS victim
1970 Jean-Michel Portal, gay French actor 
1973 Dean Maxwell, gay US pornographic actor  
1974 Eric Hanson, gay US pornographic actor 
1974 Aaron McGruder, maybe gay US cartoonist (Boondocks)
1975 David Burtka, gay US actor/husband of Neil Patrick Harris 
1978 Adam Rickitt, English actor/singer/model  Good advice--Give 'em a squeeze!
1979 Ari Borovoy, Mexican actor 
1981 Chris Violette, Canadian actor 
1982 Elyas M'Barek, German actor 



1978 Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), shoots and is shot
1992 Bill Beyers, gay US actor (Wally-Capitol), succumbs to AIDS at 37
2010 Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (Easy Rider, Cool Hand Luke), shows true grit




Thursday, January 26, 2012

January 26th

Today is January 26, 2012.  It is the 26th day of the year.  If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 330 days remaining until the end of time.



 
Advance, Audtralia Fair.  One of the most beautiful national anthems on earth.

1788 Captain Arthur Phillip hoists English flag on Botany Bay, New South Wales
1979 The homoerotic redneck romcom, "Dukes of Hazzard", premieres on CBS
Why we watched


1997 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 308 performances


Rupert would make an ideal husband
Jeremy would make an ideal husband
2006 Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.





1925 Paul Newman, US actor/social entrepreneur.  <le sigh>
1947 Patrick Dewaere, French actor
1949 David Strathairn, US actor
1958 Ellen DeGeneres, US gay icon
1967 Bryan Callen, US actor/comedian.  Whatcha doing there, Bry?
1971 Rob Cryston, US porn star
1973 Melvil Poupaud, French actor
1976 Gilles Marini, French actor
1978 Gonzalo Valenzuela, Chilean actor
Gonzalo in motion
1986 Guilherme Gorski, Brazilian actor
1987 Thomas Combezou, French rugger




1996 David Schultz, wrestler (Oly-Gold-84), who is killed by John Du Pont, disagrees with the proposition that without chemicals life itself is impossible
2011 David Kato, 46, Ugandan gay rights activist/martyr, bludgeoned with hammer