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[mariocki]

Tentacoli (Tentacles, 1977)

"I always heard that octopuses don't attack humans, is that true?"

"It is. I guess he had a reason to do it."

"Is it true that the suckers on their tentacles are as deadly as the claws of a tiger?"

"Claws are nothing compared to those, Turner. Nothing."

[deadpresidents]

Who is the oldest member of a president's cabinet still alive today?

I’m pretty sure that it is George Shultz. Shultz, who will turn 97 later this year, was Labor Secretary, OMB Director, and Treasury Secretary in the Nixon Administration. He was also Secretary of State throughout most of President Reagan’s two terms in the White House.

By the way, the earliest Administration with Cabinet members still alive is Lyndon Johnson’s. Three Cabinet-level figures from the Johnson Administration are still living in 2017: Marvin Watson, who was LBJ’s de facto White House Chief of Staff throughout most of Johnson’s Presidency and Postmaster General (that was a Cabinet-level position until 1971) in the final months of LBJ’s term; Ramsey Clark, LBJ’s third and final Attorney General; and, Alan Boyd, who was the first Secretary of Transportation in American history.

Incidentally -- since I’m sure everyone is curious -- President Truman’s last surviving Cabinet member died in 1992 (Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan). President Eisenhower’s last surviving Cabinet member, Attorney General William P. Rogers, died in 2001. President Kennedy’s last surviving Cabinet member, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, died in April 2010 -- one month after JFK’s second Labor Secretary, W. Willard Wirtz. And the last Cabinet Secretary born in the 1800s was LBJ’s fourth Commerce Secretary, C.R. Smith (1899-1990), who left office with President Johnson on January 20, 1969.

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[galerienoirchic]

Margaret Phillips, photo by Alan Boyd, Harper's Bazaar UK, January 1952

[thecraggus]

Hats off to Shelley Winters for classing-up the otherwise diabolically derivative Tentacles (1977).

Hats off to Shelley Winters for classing-up the otherwise diabolically derivative Tentacles (1977). #Review

The post is part of The Shelley Winters Blogathon hosted by Poppity Talks Classic Film and RealWeegieMigdet Reviews.

In the rosy box office afterglow of “Jaws”, numerous cash-ins were hastily commissioned and, just like today’s sharksploitationtv movie sub-genre, savvy producers were on the lookout for the next big beast of the deep to terrify the movie-going public. An Italian/ American…

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[magicmenageriestuff]

My Pop Life #169 : The Magic Hand - Stephen J. Kalinich

My Pop Life #169 : The Magic Hand – Stephen J. Kalinich

The Magic Hand   –   Stevie Kalinich I met Stevie in the summer of 2006 in Brighton.  The band were rehearsing in Scream, just off the Lewes Road for a series of summer gigs we were booked for, including headlining Herne Bay in Kent at their summer festival.  Paul Adsett, a local Beach Boys aficionado, promoter and regular at our gigs around town, suddenly turned up with a gentle affirmative…

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[thejohnfleming]

How Cilla Black re-invented herself, courtesy of Terry Wogan, in 1983

How Cilla Black re-invented herself, courtesy of Terry Wogan, in 1983

Daily Mirror announces Cilla’s death

Cilla Black died two days ago. So it goes.

I worked as a researcher on her Surprise! Surprise! series at London Weekend Television. I cannot honestly say I was enamoured of her. I think she was the only star I have ever worked with who behaved like a star. But she was worth every penny she earned. On screen she was brilliantly the girl and later auntie next…

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