Wednesday, September 30, 2009
SIMONE SIGNORET
The first French actor to ever win an Oscar, Simone Signoret left us on this day in 1985 from pancreatic cancer. She was 64. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Signoret
FRAN DRESCHER
Happy 52nd to Fran! We always got a kick out of her in The Nanny (especially when we turned the sound off.....just kidding, hey, Mess is a native New Yawker too) but we hadn't realized that her off screen work with her fellow cancer survivors led her to a diplomatic post. She had also considered a Congressional run in 2010. Who knew?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Drescher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Drescher
SURREAL ESTATE: THE WORK OF ATLEE AYRES
We were doing our usual real estate research for this week's installment of "Surreal Estate" and came up with this Frank Lloyd Wright inspired house at 118 W. Kings Hwy. Listed on the National Historic Register, it was designed by San Antonio architect Atlee Ayres. Ayres was responsible for numerous landmark homes, hotels, office and public buildings. For more on Ayres see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlee_Ayres. This home is listed with Ann Van Pelt of Phyllis Browning. The 6 bedroom 6 bath 7565 square foot beauty is being offered for $940K.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
FAMOUS ALAMO HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL GRAD - GUESS WHO
We ran this one before with a rather obscure photo and no one got it, so we'll make it too easy this time.
ANITA EKBERG
Born today in Sweden in 1931. Her fountain scene in Fellini's La Dolce Vita is one of the most amazing moments in film. Ekberg lives in Italy.
MADELINE KAHN
Born on this day in 1942, and left us in 1999 at the age of 57 after a struggle with ovarian cancer.
W.H. AUDEN
The poet left us on this day in 1973. He was 66. Once, when Mess was a mere babe in the woods, a lover quoted "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love" to me. Decades later, that gesture (and that poem) stays with me.
PAUL JABARA
Passed away on this day in 1992 from AIDS related complications. He was 44. While Barry Manilow may have written the songs that made the whole world sing, Jabara wrote the songs that made the whole world dance. He wrote Donna Summer's Oscar and Grammy Award-winning hit "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday (1978) and Barbra Streisand's Golden Globe-nominated song "The Main Event/Fight" from The Main Event (1979). He cowrote the Weather Girls hit, "It's Raining Men" with Paul Shaffer.
Monday, September 28, 2009
GEOFFREY BEENE
The Louisiana born fashion designer passed on this day in 2004 from cancer. He was 80 years old.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
MEAT LOAF
Born Marvin Lee Aday on this day in 1947, Meat Loaf was another huge part of Little Mess's formative years.
ALISON "THE NIGHTBIRD" STEELE
When Mess was a kid in New York, the coolest thing you could do was stay up all night and listen to The Nightbird on WNEW FM. The DJ who pioneered "progressive" rock radio was the smoky, sultry voiced Alison Steele. One of the most popular radio DJ's of all time, Steele passed away on this day in 1995 from stomach cancer at the age of 58.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
BETTY CARTER
The Grammy winning jazz singer passed away from pancreatic cancer on this day in 1998. She was 69.
Friday, September 25, 2009
LA REVE EST FINI
We were waiting for a really special occassion (and a winning lottery ticket) to try La Reve downtown in The Exchange Building, and now we hear it's closing! It's not because there aren't enough folks with a few hundred or more to splurge on dinner( It's booked way in advance always), it's because Owner and Chef Andrew Weissman has expanded his culinary empire north of 1604 and at The Pearl Brewery, so he's spread thin. It does seem odd, though, to close the flagship. La Reve was voted one of the six greatest American restaurants and one time Best in Texas by critics. It's about as strange as, let's say, GM getting rid of Cadillac. But these are strange days indeed.
RANDY QUAID ARRESTED IN MARFA
Randy Quaid and his wife Evi spent a little time in the Marfa, Texas jail after they were picked up by the local po po. A felony warrant for burglary, defrauding an innkeeper and conspiracy was issued out of Santa Barbara, Calif., for the couple after authorities received a complaint in early September that they had not paid a bill of more than $10,000 due to a local hotel, according to a release from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. Skipped out on the hotel? Interesting, since they withrew $40K bail money for both of them from a local bank. Guess they didn't like the room service in Santa Barbara. Quaid, you may recall, bitched and moaned about how little he was paid for his blink and miss it part in Brokeback Mountain. He didn't think the film was going to be so big, so he worked cheap. Looks like he has money issues, huh.
AIDA TURTURRO
Born today in 1962. When my sister Stella and I watched The Sopranos on DVD, she made me rewind the part where Richie slapped Janice at dinner and Janice just gets up from the table like she's going to get the damn grated romano and she picks up a gun and blows Richie away. Stella can be just wrong, sometimes. But we know we'd best be loyal to the family!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
FRANCOISE SAGAN
France's bad girl of literature passed away on this day in 2004 at the age of 69. She drove fast and lived fast, had numerous lovers of both genders, did too many drugs, and got embroiled in financial scandals with people in high places. In other words, our kind of gal.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
SURREAL ESTATE:SEIZED MANSION ON THE AUCTION BLOCK
Grab your umbrella and your check book and head on over to 407 E. Wildwood Drive. The IRS is auctioning off Andrew Parker's mansion, appraised at 5 million, at noon today. Parker is now living in much smaller quarters courtesy of the Feds after his bust for scamming millions out of investors.
UPDATE: The winning bid was $3.25 million.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
YOU'VE BEEN A BAD EMU!!
FOREST, Miss. – Officers had to use a stun gun and handcuffs to capture an emu running loose on Interstate 20 in central Mississippi on Sunday. Police Officer Kiley Culpepper told WLBT-TV in Jackson that motorists had been calling 911 since Friday to report sightings of two emus on I-20 and nearby U.S. Highway 80.
Authorities had been unable to find the animals until Sunday, when one was spotted near an I-20 entrance ramp.
The big bird was dodging traffic. Culpepper and deputies were able to surround the animal but has to use the Taser and handcuffs to finally get it off the road.
After being captured, the animal was taken to the Scott County Forest Coliseum.
MARION DAVIES
Actress and mistress of William Randolph Hearst, Davies died on this day in 1961 from cancer. She was 64.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
RUSS MEYER
Passed away today in 2004. Born in 1922, the director was known for his cultish B-movies and big boobed starlets. His "Faster, Pussycat, Kill Kill!" remains a miracle of exploitation, camp, and sheer wierdness. Think straight John Waters meets Quentin Tarantino.
GRETA GARBO
The most enigmatic film star that ever lived, Garbo was born on this day in Stockholm in 1905. Bisexual, reclusive, and incredibly wealthy mostly due to wise real estate investments, Garbo began almost four decades of seclusion when she bought a seven room riverfront apartment in New York in 1953. "I want to be left alone," she said, and pretty much was for the rest of life, which ended in 1990 at the age of 84.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
EVA AND TONY TOOK A GAMBLE
We just were reminded that ELP was in town recently at the 2nd annual Tony & Eva Parker Celebrity Casino Night, an event for her charity, "Eva's Heroes," which benefits developmentally challenged young people, at Pedrotti's North Wind Ranch, Saturday, September 12, 2009. http://www.evasheroes.org/events_casinonight.asp. We're so sorry that we didn't ley y'all know PRIOR, 'cause we're sure you wanted to go!
LOVED YOUR CENTERFOLD, SENATOR
An anti-gay Massachusetts politician is angling to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy in the United States Senate. Gossip site Gawker reports that he posed nude for a magazine more than a quarter of a century ago.Massachusetts State Sen. Scott Brown--who won his current seat in a special election 2004--is hoping to replicate his earlier success with the coming special election to replace Edward "Ted" Kennedy, whose death leaves one of the state’s Senate seats vacant on Capitol Hill.
ANNE BANCROFT
Born on this day in 1931, Anne Bancroft (aka Mrs. Mel Brooks) shocked audiences in her 1967 role in "The Graduate" by playing the cougar to cub Dustin Hoffman. She passed away in 2005 from uterine cancer. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
BRAVE NEW FRONTIERS
NEW YORK – "The Newlywed Game" is bringing on its first gay couple.
It's a celebrity duo for the long-running game show, now on the GSN cable network. George Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," will appear with his partner, Brad Altman. They just celebrated their first anniversary after being married in Los Angeles.
Takei and Altman have been together for 22 years, so they're nothing like the giggly young couples who appeared on the first version of the show.
It's a celebrity duo for the long-running game show, now on the GSN cable network. George Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," will appear with his partner, Brad Altman. They just celebrated their first anniversary after being married in Los Angeles.
Takei and Altman have been together for 22 years, so they're nothing like the giggly young couples who appeared on the first version of the show.
ANNE FRANCIS
Born today in 1932. When Mess was just a lil' mess Anne Francis starrred on TV (back when we had rabbit ear antennae and there was no cable) as Honey West, a wild and sexy female detective who drove a Cobra and had a pet ocelet. Mess thought she was beyond cool.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
TO PATRICK SWAYZE, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING
The native of Houston, Texas lost his battle with pancreatic cancer today. He was 57. Last month we ran his birthday pic, looking so manly and sexy and handsome (and that he was) but we most remember his amazing work in "To Wong Fu". You can dance dirty, you can be a ghost, you can be a bouncer in a road house, but when you steal a movie from your "fellow" drag queens, you've got balls. We're gonna miss you...
SOME GAY SAN ANTONIO SHIT
Usually we leave all this sort of stuff to our dear friends at Q San Antonio, who we offer our readers a FREE link to, while they NEVER acknowledge Mess. Mess even offered to sleep with the publisher for a link, but NADA, NOTHING, ZIP. Anyhoo, On the top (hmmmmmmmmmm) is San Antonio Pillagers of Donuts Head Honcho William Mc Anus, who is having 9 of his officers named in a FEDERAL CASE regarding that nasty little raid on a local lesbeen couple's home. Add that to all the almost daily hi-jinks of his largely farcical force. Now before y'all come down hard on me, I know there a few good cops. TOO FEW!
On the bottom ( we always figured he was.....) is our loveable little HEB Buddy. As HEB was named by HRC as one of the most GLBT friendly employers in San Antonio, the Krazy Kristians are already threatening to shop someplace else. If you live outside of San Antonio, you will miss the beautiful irony - HEB is our only supermarket! Well, there's Sun Harvest (aka Henry's in some other states) but we have a feeling they may be a bit too healthy and organic for most of the haters. So let the haters fill up on cheap wine and wafers. But of course, that would mean they would actually have to GO TO CHURCH.
Y'ALL NEED TO BEHAVE!
Good Lord, people. What is up with all this national bad behavior? Have y'all just gone mad? All you money stealing investment counselors, all you bank officials throwing par-tays in foreclosed houses, all you singers beating up on women (if you can remember doing it.....), all you tax payer's money usin' cheating ass congress men, you nasty ass screaming tennis players, you retarded mike grabbing stage hogging thunder stealing rap singer, all of you child abusing parents, oh, sweet father of Jesus, I need to stop and take some NERVINE. ALL YOU ALL ARE GOING TO HELL OR WORSE. Mess is making a damn list. You are all (if you are not already in damn jail) spending next summer right here in San Antonio. With no god damn air conditioning. Think about it.
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