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Vicki McClure Davidson | November 23, 2010

  Search engine giant Google offers an early tribute to Thanksgiving today on its homepage with some tantalizing Thanksgiving dinner-makin’ doodle art, courtesy of popular TV cook and cookbook author Ina Garten, aka “The Barefoot Contessa.” UPDATE, November 24, 2010: Day 2 of the Thanksgiving dinner Google logo… more food art:   UPDATE, November 25, [...]

Category: Entertainment, Celebrities, Food, Drink, Frugal Kitchen Tricks, Holidays and Family, Social and Political Climate, Videos, Audio Files | 4 Comments »
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Vicki McClure Davidson | February 19, 2010

I remember reading about the days of the ultra-cool Rat Pack — those wise-cracking, popular 1960s headliners were Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. Originally, the group was centered around drinking buddy and tough-guy actor Humphrey Bogart until his death in 1957. They were all friends and were huge [...]

Category: Government, International Relations, Social and Political Climate | 6 Comments »
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Vicki McClure Davidson | November 15, 2009

Sultry, intelligent Lauren Bacall is one of my favorite actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She made a number of films, but the best, in my opinion, were the film noir movies in which she co-starred with husband Humphrey Bogart (they first met and fell in love during the filming of To Have and [...]

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