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Happy 91st Birthday Bob Fosse

June 23, 2018 Scott Parker-Anderson

Today is the 01st birthday of the choreographer Bob Fosse.  I am partial to Sweet Charity, but Cabaret is pretty much perfection.  He helped propel dance

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Happy 90th Birthday Bob Fosse

June 23, 2017 Scott Parker-Anderson

Today is the 90th birthday of the choreographer Bob Fosse.  I am partial to Sweet Charity, but Cabaret is pretty much perfection.  He helped propel dance

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X is for Xenophanes and XTC #atozchallenge

April 28, 2016 Scott Parker-Anderson

“It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.” – Xenophanes [570-475 B.C.] From DIOGENES LAURTIUS,Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Xenophanes, IX Xenophanes of Colophon

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U is for Updike and U2 #atozchallenge

April 25, 2016 Scott Parker-Anderson

“You climb up through the little grades and then get to the top and everybody cheers; with the sweat in your eyebrows you can’t see

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T is for Twain, Taylor, Thompson Twins, Tracy and Twombly #atozchallenge

April 23, 2016 Scott Parker-Anderson

Edwin Parker “Cy” Twombly, Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but made

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N is for Novarro, Nero, Newman, Noguchi, Neruda and New Order #atozchallenge

April 16, 2016 Scott Parker-Anderson

“What an artist dies with me! – Nero [A.D. 37-68] From SUETONIUS, Nero, sec. 49 Nero was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the

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A is for Austen, Astaire, ABC and Aarons #atozchallenge

April 1, 2016 Scott Parker-Anderson

Slim Aarons, born George Allen Aarons, was an American photographer noted for photographing socialites, jet-setters and celebrities. I do not want people to be very

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Jared Washines – Style Icon

November 24, 2012 Scott Parker-Anderson

Today would have been Jared Washines’ 38th birthday.  I have collected as much of his writing as I could find and have created a link

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