We don't want to be alone

September 23: Actor Mickey Rooney was born Sept. 23, 1920. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest career of any actor ever. He was also married eight times.

"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married." -- Cyril Connolly.



September 24: Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Sep. 24, 1896. He wrote:

"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."

And desperately trying to catch up

Birthday of actress Lauren Bacall, born 1924. She was married to Humphrey Bogart.

"The whole world is about three drinks behind." -- Bogart.

Cringe when I say that, Pilgrim

Sally Ride, the first U. S. astronaut, was born on this day in 1951.

"They (women) have a right to work wherever they want to--as long as they have dinner ready when you get home." -- John Wayne, born May 26, 1907.

"The Duke" also said:

"I don't feel like we did wrong by taking this great country away from them (the Indians). There were people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."

And directors put their hands on them all the time

Lionel Barrymore, one of the famous Barrymore family of actors (his brother John, a legendary stage actor, was called The Great Profile), was born on this day in 1878.

"Actors are crap." -- John Ford.

He never met the Barrenmores

Actor Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) was born on this day in 1908.

"What a set of barren asses are actors." -- John Keats.

Make way for the bad

Actor John Barrymore ("The Great Profile") was born on this day in 1882.

"The good die young," he said, "because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good."

Birthday of the Month: Elvis Presley, Jan. 8, 1935

"Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth." -- Marlon Brando.

The stuff that dreams are made of

Today is the birthday of actor Sydney Greenstreet. He played Kasper Gutman (the Fat Man) in The Maltese Falcon.

When Sam Spade, played by Humphrey Bogart, suggests to Gutman that he sacrifice his underling, the "gunsel" Wilmer, to the police, Gutman thinks a minute, then tells Wilmer:

"I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon."