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Having a launch party for a book COVER is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen on a "Real Housewives" show (and that is saying a LOT, among an endless stream of ridiculous stuff). It's like a situation that "Saturday Night Live" writers would put in a sketch to spoof the RH franchise.

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Then at her book cover launch party (for a book that doesn't exist yet), she spoke about how the people who really matter in your life are there for you when you need them the most. Um… you need people THE MOST for a flashy, attention-grabbing party where you're merely unveiling a book cover?!

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I guess this is "the art of the deal". Meanwhile, the moronic members of MAGA's dimwitted doomsday cult will still insist that while other presidents played checkers, Great Orange Leader is "playing 3D chess".

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After watching "Sweet Bird of Youth" on HBO Max, I decided that I wanted to see "Suddenly, Last Summer", which I hadn't seen in decades, so I found it on Tubi, then I watched "Raintree County", and now I'm on to "Now, Voyager" and "Dark Victory". Tubi has got some great classic films!

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1,600-year-old lead curse tablet in the Museo Archeologico Civico di Bologna, the oldest-known surviving curse directed at a Roman senator, written in Latin with Greek invocations: "Crush, kill Fistus the senator… May Fistus dilute, languish, sink and may all his limbs dissolve."

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Idi di Marzo, 2026: Rievocazione storica del Gruppo Storico Romano del 15 marzo del 44 a.C. giorno in cui è stato ucciso Giulio Cesare, Largo di Torre Argentina, Roma. Annual reeneactment of Julius Caesar's assassination in the place where it happened. Photographed by tittibelli_foto on Instagram.

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Idi di Marzo: Rievocazione storica del Gruppo Storico Romano del 15 marzo del 44 a.C. giorno in cui è stato ucciso Giulio Cesare. TRANSLATION Ides of March: Historical reenactment by the Roman Historical Reenactment Group of March 15, 44 BCE—the day Julius Caesar was assassinated.

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I'm all for going full "damnatio memoriae" when we here in present-day USA are finally rid of the moronic MAGA cult leader and his reprehensible regime, but if any statues or painted portraits of him remain after he's gone, this would be the only reason to keep them in existence.

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Martinus Sieveking (1867-1950), Dutch pianist who composed and conducted music for Eugen Sandow’s strongman performances in the early 1890s. Sieveking played during Sandow's 1893 tour of America and even appeared in Sandow’s strongman act. He was dubbed the “Sandow of the Keyboard” by newspapers.

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An 1899 article in the Lakes Herald Newspaper remarked about Sieveking… "The once slight and delicate frame of an artist to whom physical exercise was unknown, has been transformed into a strong, athletic figure with muscles of iron. He is as strong as two or three ordinary pianists put together."

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Martinus Sieveking (1867-1950), Dutch pianist who composed and conducted music for Eugen Sandow’s strongman performances in the early 1890s. Sieveking played during Sandow's 1893 tour of America and even appeared in Sandow’s strongman act. He was dubbed the “Sandow of the Keyboard” by newspapers.

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Sieveking had a great interest in physical culture himself, and he was an early pupil of Eugen Sandow. Thanks to his status as a talented pianist and composer, he quickly became one of Sandow’s most high profile students.

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The dynastychronicles page on Instagram posted this spoof because they’re up to the season of “Dynasty” when Fallon had recounted her UFO experience after the series finale cliffhanger on “The Colbys”. The admin of that page also owns the colbysofcalifornia account.

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For the past 25 years, San Faustino (Saint Faustinus) has been celebrated as the patron saint of singles on February 15th, regarded by many as the Anti-Valentine's Day. [NOTE: The medieval marginalia image in this post does not depict San Faustino]

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When I first heard about the new series and saw the poster, I expected it to be like "Starfleet 90210", but it has turned out to have a lot more depth, character development, and fine acting than I thought that it would, plus occasional appearances by, and references to, characters from past series.

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Paul Giamatti is sufficiently menacing as the 1st season's chief villain, Nus Braka, a crude and heartless Klingon-Tellarite hybrid, and Holly Hunter's quirky captain of the USS Athena and Chancellor of Starfleet Academy, Nahla Ake, brings authority, comic relief, and a moral compass to the stories.

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Madonna, Alberto Guerra, and Tony Özkan in "The One", directed by Mert Alas for Dolce & Gabbana. In the ad, Madonna sings "La Bambola", originally recorded by Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli, 1948) in 1968.

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I’d never noticed before that in “The Nanny” episode “Ode to Barbra Joan” (S1 E20), Fran Drescher wears the same vintage Bob Mackie dress that Madonna wore to perform “Sooner or Later” at the Oscars in 1991, and also on the cover of Vanity Fair. Recently, Sabrina Carpenter wore the dress.

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“Maria Schiavo (fashion stylist) borrowed my sample of this dress for a Madonna cover shoot for Vanity Fair. Less than a week later, Madonna herself called and requested her own version of the dress for the 1991 Academy Awards… Madonna later famously wore the dress in her SEX book.” ~ Bob Mackie

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I knew that the chess scene in Madonna's "The Power of Good-Bye" video was inspired by a scene in Faye Dunaway's "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), but I wasn't aware that the beach scene is based on a scene in Joan Crawford's "Humoresque" (1946).