“Keep a good heart. That’s the most important thing in life. It’s not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.”
Happy 75th birthday to the groundbreaking genius Joni Mitchell!
“The fact is I am terribly shy. Or maybe introverted is a better word. But introverted, shy, whatever, it stays with you whether you’re a star or not. I think people become actors and actresses to overcome just that. You can become so many people.”
The great screen goddess Rita Hayworth was born 100 years ago today.
“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you’re just fair game.”
The sublime Greta Garbo, a star often imitated but never matched, was born on this day in 1905. ✨
“I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I’m grateful, and if you don’t, what am I going to do about it?”
The great Anne Bancroft, one of the screen’s most astounding and distinctive forces of nature, was born on this day in 1931.
Here she is as Mrs. Robinson in Mike Nichols’s The Graduate (1967). On playing the difficult and instantly iconic seductress, Bancroft said, “Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we will reach a point in our lives, look around, and realize that all the things we said we’d do and become will never come to be. And that we’re ordinary.” 👑
Marilyn Monroe and male onlooker wait for the uptown local at Grand Central Station in 1955. (Photo by Ed Feingersh) ✨
“You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.”
Happy birthday to that great comedic genius Tina Fey, pictured here on the set of Mean Girls in 2003.
“We have to salute back our youth. We have to be with them, pray with them, march with them. Their cause is ours. Their cause is our future.”
Last night at Tribeca 2018, the genius Patti Smith was joined by friends/fellow music gods Bruce Springsteen and Michael Stipe on stage at the Beacon Theatre, where she sang some of her greatest hits and honored the Parkland activists after the debut of Steven Sebring and Apple Music’s new documentary Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band, in which Smith performs her iconic masterpiece Horses in full for its 40th anniversary.
(Photos by Dave Krugman for @streetdreamsmag2)
