NICK ADAMS

The actor died on this day in 1968 of a drug overdose. He was 36, and known more for his rumored affairs with James Dean and Elvis Presley than his theatrical resume.

SUNDAY'S MESS-AGE

CHECK OUT GABBY'S MAMA!!!

Alice Tan Ridley has been mesmerizing New York City subway riders for years, but recently the spotlight's been turned up a few thousand watts because her baby girl Gabourey Sidibe has become a "Precious" commodity. Mess was curious to hear Ridley's sound, and now he's a fan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPyaMAHBBBI

BLACK HISTORY: BAYARD RUSTIN

Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier, and the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.^[1] He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. He became an advocate on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career; however, his homosexuality was the basis for attacks from government officials and agencies as well as from interest groups.
He also testified on behalf of New York State's Gay Rights Bill and, in 1986, gave a speech "The New Niggers Are Gays," in which he asserted,

Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new "niggers" are gays. . . . It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. . . . The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.

MAMIE VAN DOREN

Born Joan Lucille Olander in Rowena, South Dakota on this day in 1931, the sex symbol, bad girl and cult film star is still kicking, with a country music album to be released this year.

FALCO

The Austrian born musician died on this day in 1998 after a car crash. He was 40.
http://video.tiscali.it/canali/truveo/158506510.html

A RANDOM THOUGHT FROM MESS

Opinions are like cocks. A lot of folks have one, but they don't need to be shoved down everyone's throats.

DAISY AND VIOLET HILTON

The Siamese twins were born on this day in England in 1908 and spent most of their life in San Antonio, Texas. They died at 60 of the Hong Kong flu.

FRANKLIN COVER

The actor who played Tom Willis, husband of Helen (Played by the late Roxie Roker) on The Jeffersons (he's in the middle) passed away on this day in 2006 at the age of 77. The Willises were one of television's first interracial couples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxqGiYd4YWE

ROSA PARKS

Sometimes you get on a bus, just like any other day, and the whole world changes. Say amen for the mother of the modern day civil rights movement, born on this day in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. The rest, my little messes, is history.