Monday, November 10, 2008

A month for birthdays


Yesterday there was two more birthday celebrations. I wish I could have been in two places at once, but that is impossible. The picture above is my DD's godson. He turned a big 3. I don't know where the years go. It seems like yesterday he was born. He is the youngest of 3. And as cute as a button. I just love him and his sisters dearly.
My brother-in-law Joe had us over to dinner yesterday for a birthday dinner for my hubby. His birthday will be tomorrow on Veterans day, which also would be my parents anniversary. He made us a delicious meal. We started off with a salad,bread and homemade carrot and ginger soup. The soup was absolutely delicious but had a bit of a bite to it. The main meal consisted of a spiral ham, macaroni and cheese, spinach simmered in olive oil and garlic and a cole slaw to die for. The coleslaw was made with red cabbage, peanuts which really added a different flavor and texture, mayo and mustard. Then he topped off the meal with a chocolate cake from scratch. It is so nice to have a relative that graduated from a culinary college.
Wednesday will be my sisters birthday. I had bought a spiral ham and ingredients to make home made mac and cheese before I was invited to yesterdays dinner. I am still planning on making it on Wednesday to celebrate my DH and sisters birthday. I just love birthdays as they are a way of celebrating life.............
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Hedda Hopper


Birth:

May 2, 1890
Death:

Feb. 1, 1966
Actress, Journalist. Despite a 23 year career that encompassed over 120 motion picture appearances and chorus girl roles on Broadway to motion pictures, she is best remembered for her newspaper column and radio show that focused exclusively on Hollywood gossip, a subject she was able to tell more about to her audience due to her Hollywood insider status. Born Elda Furry in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania, she left school to act on Broadway. In 1913 she married marquee star William DeWolfe, a man who was 32 years her senior. They had one son, and divorced in 1922, but she kept his name for the rest of her life (and changed her name to Hedda on the advice of a numerologist). In 1931 she began “The Hedda Hopper Show”, which initially ran as a 15 minute gossip show mostly devoted to Hollywood marriages and divorces. Enormously popular, it ran until 1951, and on the strength of its popularity she started the “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood” column in the Los Angeles Times in 1938. She steadily gained a reputation for exposing tidbits about the lives of Hollywood figures, and created a character of herself in her own right, especially in regard to her vast collection of sometimes outrageous hats, and a long standing feud with rival gossip columnist Louella Parsons. With the advent of television’s popularity in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he radio show waned, but she herself became a staple of television programs and game shows, being a frequent panelist on “What’s My Line?’, and appear on shows like “I Love Lucy”, “The Colgate Variety Hour” and “The Beverly Hillbillies”. In 1960 she received the Journalistic Merit award, and published her autobiography “The Whole Truth and Nothing But!”, which recapped her over 20 years or being an Hollywood insider. She died in Los Angeles of double pneumonia in 1966, working right up until her passing. As a Hollywood icon, she created a number of friends and enemies; she gave harsh advice to actress Ida Lupino, which helped her gain recognizable part, but was despised by actress Joan Bennett, who once sent her a skunk. In 1985 a movie about the feud between her and Parsons was released as “Malice in Wonderland”, which Jane Alexander as Hedda Hopper and Elizabeth Taylor as Louella Parsons