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Happy Birthday JOAN CRAWFORD! From silent film flapper to Hollywood powerhouse, she redefined stardom in MILDRED PIERCE, POSSESSED, & WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?



Born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? – May 10, 1977 in San Antonio, Texas. Crawford's year of birth is uncertain, as various sources claim 1904, 1905, 1906, and 1908. Crawford herself widely claimed 1908 (the date on her tombstone). Crawford's daughter Christina asserts it was 1904 in the biography Mommie Dearest, published in 1978. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) placed her 10th on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

Ann Blyth born August 16, 1928 is still alive.





March 23, 1915: Vasily Zaytsev was born in Yelenika (then part of Russian Empire). He was a prolific Soviet sniper named “Hero of the Soviet Union” (Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal) during the struggle against Germany during WWII. Between 22 September 1942 and 19 October 1942, he killed 40 enemy soldiers. Between 10 October 1942 and 17 December 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, he killed 225 enemy soldiers.

He died on December 15, 1991 in Kiev, at the age of 76, just 11 days before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was buried in Kiev, although he wished to be buried in the Stalingrad land that he had defended. On January 31, 2006, Vasily Zaitsev was reburied with full military honors at the Stalingrad memorial at Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia.


In the film, Enemy at the Gates (2001), starring Jude Law as Zaitsev, was based on part of William Craig's book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (1973), which includes a "snipers' duel" between Zaitsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.



Big Brother for Consumers?
"Every package ought to show clearly what & how much it contains, but should it also be required to be "in a form convenient to & usable by the consumer" (Kennedy's words)?" LIFE, March 23, 1962.




AVOID THE RUSH! INVEST IN WORLD WAR III VICTORY BONDS NOW!
From MAD SUPER SPECIAL #17 (1975)




March 23, 2673: We see this date as the "Earth Time" displayed on Taylor's control panel when he starts recording his final log. This is the estimated date on Earth based on Dr Hasslein's theory of time dilation.


One can find the craziest books on Amazon.


Today is World Bear Day. This Soviet Bear got too close to the Kitty Hawk (CV-63) in 1981, so it was chased away by a couple of Tomcats.


On October 6, 2021, Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy were sold for one cent each to International Shipbreaking Limited in Brownsville, Texas for scrapping. The Ford-class carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is expected to be commissioned later this year.


When the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Honolulu (SSN 718) surfaced 280 miles from the North Pole in 2003, this trio of curious polar bears spent two hours investigating the boat.




March 23, 1983: Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security. Pres Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. Strategic Defense Initiative aka Star Wars program. Elements of the program reemerged in 2019 via the Space Development Agency (SDA) under Space Force.



"Since the dawn of the atomic age, we've sought to reduce the risk of war by maintaining a strong deterrent and by seeking genuine arms control. "Deterrence" means simply this: making sure any adversary who thinks about attacking the United States, or our allies, or our vital interests, concludes that the risks to him outweigh any potential gains. Once he understands that, he won't attack. We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression."

The Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles.  Reagan called for a system that would render nuclear weapons obsolete, and to end the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD), which he described as a "suicide pact". Elements of the program reemerged in 2019 under the Space Development Agency (SDA), a unit of Space Force.

Trump Administration is trying to do the same:
Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative


The gremlins are being kept stockaded in a government bunker and you don’t believe they’re real?!

Just one percent of the Smithsonian’s vast collection, spread over 20 museums and galleries, is on display at one time, leaving millions of unseen treasures, like this classic movie prop, hidden in high-security storage facilities.

As I discover when three Smithsonian museums kindly allow me to peek inside their back rooms, the answer is: lots of things that will absolutely blow your mind.

In the maze of storage rooms at the National Museum of American History, for instance, it seems every cabinet I look into holds an iconic cultural touchstone. Behind one door lies Ray Bolger's Scarecrow costume from The Wizard of Oz. A nearby drawer holds, side by side, Jerry Seinfeld’s puffy shirt and Mister Rogers’ red sweater. A small box contains the original stopwatch from the television news program 60 Minutes.

This could go on, literally, forever. But everyone has real work to do, so we reluctantly head for the door—where I spot, beneath Lance Armstrong’s bicycle, a crate labeled “Gremlin. Fragile.”

“Wait,” I say. “There’s a gremlin in there?”

“Yeah, I think so,” says Lintelman. He pries off the front and there, staring at us from behind a wooden brace supporting its head, is a perfectly preserved critter from Joe Dante’s 1990 horror comedy Gremlins 2: The New Batch. His eyes, peering over the brace, seem to implore us to set him free. But there’s a hand-printed warning: “Do not remove screws.”

A rare look inside the Smithsonian’s secret storerooms

Disappointing article as she never made it down to the basement!


Gary Oldman’s 67th birthday, Dracula’s mouse. "The cheese is the life."




Teslas, once the darling of alternative energy advocates, are now the new Nazi cars as Elon Musk "divides America", says the LA Times. Meanwhile, the issues a PSA — arson, gunfire, and vandalism targeting Tesla EVs, dealerships, and charging stations in 9+ states, linked to "political grievances" and appear to be conducted by "lone offenders".


So weird that for years the libs & green people were pro EV.  Try finding the common thread of who is funding this because it’s not organic enough to be this violent and organized.