Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was a very well loved first lady, typical of Splay Temperament types. She was so loved many of her fans who heard her speak at the 2016 Democratic Convention urged her to run in 2020. She has said she will not, that eight years in the White House was enough. Politics though is fickle […]
Tag: Illinois
J48 Black Mirror – Mary Astor +Brigid O’Shaunessey
Mary Astor was in many film hits in the 1930’s and early 40’s before her alcoholism took its toll, most notably Dodsworth with Walter Huston and then the Maltese Falcon directed by Huston’s son, John Houston. In her youth, as shown by the picture above, the raven haired actress was quite a beauty with her […]
J938 Eight feet & counting – Bob Wadlow
Robert Pershing Wadlow is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable documented evidence. Because he was born in Alton, Illinois, a town one hundred miles south of the capitol, Springfield, and across the river from St. Louis, Bob got the nickname of “The Alton Giant.” Hyperpituitarism made him grow Robert Wadlow […]
The lion in winter, the playwright Sam Shepard
A man of many talents Sam Shepard with his down home honesty and American good looks; seemed, like fellow actor Robert Redford to personify the Marlboro Man Mythic. But unlike Redford, Shepard smoked, heavily and like his father, destroyed his life and relationship with his alcoholism. Writing, booze and women His real name was Samuel […]