Let Me Ask You

But, Ricky, why can't I be in the show? You know what's funny? Don't worry. I'll tell you. Some Facts for the Biographer: Raised in Ohio. Now in Manhattan. I drink too much Diet Coke. I saw my first I Love Lucy episode at three and from then on assumed “trying to put on a show” was a perfectly normal pastime. . When I am bored I like to look at real estate online. I have a giant stuffed leopard named Baby. I think I would make an excellent spy. When I am scared I sing showtunes to myself. I have, on more than one occasion, been asked to use my “indoor voice” at the Met. About once every two months I think I’d like to live on a farm. When I am sad I like to put my fur vest on, eat grapefruit with my special grapefruit spoons, and pretend I am in 1930s Hollywood. I like making people gifts. One day I would like to own a pink and green plaid piano. Lady Mary is my role model. One of my life goals is to learn to tap dance.

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From: Garden magazine & home builder.  Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925

SB1 .G24 1925

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The Bridgeport Post, Connecticut, May 28, 1951

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Stanislao Lepri, La Chambre De Leonor - Une Fantaisie (1965)

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Times Square, 1954.

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Audrey Hepburn in New York City, circa 1953

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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Holiday (1938)

[11-15-11]

Elizabeth Taylor, 1957.

[timelessaudrey]

Funny face promotional poster,1956.Photos by Richard Avedon

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[arjeanjones]

Cat in Frame, Ferdinando Scianna

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The New York skyline c.1968 

[judyfashion]

Judy Garland and director Stanley Kramer photographed by Douglas Kirkland

[bookoffixedstars]

François Frédéric Boissonnas (1858 - 1946) - Caravan around a campfire by night, Sinai, circa 1929.

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[mesogeios]

Cate Blanchett by Peter Lindbergh, 2011.

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Lear deBessonet, of Great Faith.

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Manezhnaya Square in Moscow (1960s)