This week keeps getting worse, celebrity-wise.
Lauren Bacall: 16 September, 1924-12 August 2014.
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”-Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some
Goodbye, Lauren Bacall!
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An extraordinary life and a full one, but still so sad at her passing.
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Indeed! I grew up going to Malabar Farm, the site of her wedding to Bogart. I have fond memories of standing at the foot of the stairs that she descended during the ceremony, daydreaming about movie stars! My favourite ever charity event (in honor of Comden and Green) involved the likes of Lauren Bacall, Tommy Tune, James Naughton…it was stellar! She was so elegant and witty. She will definitely be missed.
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I love to hear how inspiring she was, that’s what it’s about. xox, V
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She was a classy dame!
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She was so beautiful and so talented. That voice! She will be missed but in a way she’ll be alive forever.
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That voice. Yessss! Being alive forever is half the point of the movies, isn’t it?
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I didn’t know! I’m so sorry to hear this. She was amazing and beautiful. “you just put your lips together and blow.” I hope she’s happy and with Boggie.
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I’d like to think that, too. I’m sure most people picture her being reunited with Bogie. She was lovely, and incredibly talented, too.
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This is a tragic loss also.
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It is! I don’t care that she was almost ninety, it is still a huge loss for classic film fans.
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I agree.
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She lived a long time by Hollywood standards and was beautiful ’til the end. The above quote is so “her” and so appropriate.
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Or by any standards, really. She was nearly ninety! We were blessed with her film presence for exactly seventy years, and for that I am grateful.
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With her and James Garner going, I wonder now who the new class of “classic” Hollywood stars are/will be. Or if that can ever really be replicated again.
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I don’t think there’s any such thing now, and that isn’t necessarily bad. The first fifty or so years of Hollywood proper is its own special era, and we cannot expect to replicate its people or films or aesthetic. That’s okay. There are famous actors now, sure, and some of them will become legends…but in a different way, and to a different extent. We wouldn’t be mourning the loss of the likes of Garner and Bacall if they were replaceable.
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Beautiful tribute. Perfect.
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Thanks! I am still so sad!
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