December 27, 1906: Perpetually depressed actor Oscar Levant, who will make a career of parading neuroses on the late-night talk-show circuit, is born.
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| Is that why winning an OSCAR © is nice - but it doesn't win you happiness? | |
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| Mister Levant was funny with his sad face routine...! | |
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December 28, 1908: 80,000 people killed in Messina, Italy earthquake.
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| That'll teach them to name the place after Messalina... GOD would have no gripes with them if they had named the town after... say... Agrippina? | |
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| Just to be on the safe side - go with Clare... of my all-time fave - Santa Lucia! | |
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December 28, 1937: Maurice Ravel, whose Bolero will serve as backdrop for more sexual encounters than the entire works of Barry White, dies with a smile on his face.
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| And the silly loons on www.twistedhistory.com thought he was BORN on this date... | |
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| That is called MIS- INFO- RMATION! | |
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