Role models can be great. They provide wisdom for how to get where we’d like to be.
Take care, though.
In our eagerness, we risk blindness and deafness to how sometimes they’re better examples of what not to do. Of the ones we love, those who are closest to us, their familiarity can feel like normalcy.
The amazing poem posted by afroliz of Zimbabwe that follows illustrates what I’m trying to say.
I believe we must all continually work to be our own best role models. Let us be lighthearted in working toward that goal. Let us be as serious as happiness when it comes to understanding which role models we might already have unwittingly chosen.
1954 publicity photo of Judy Garland: Judy Garland during filming in a drive-in restaurant for her role in the WB film A Star is Born.
Finishing off Dorothy Parker week with roijoyeux’ guest blog post about Alan Campbell, Parker’s husband twice over. In 1955 they wrote the screenplay for “A Star is Born,” starring Judy Garland. During that hysterical knee-jerk McCarthy ridden era (a time we should all look to for lessons in for today), they were black-listed as anti-American for their political views.
Don’t speak French? Click Google Translate at the right of roijoyeux’ post.
D’innombrables prodiges du monde du spectacle, sportifs exceptionnels, rois, capitaines d’industrie, scientifiques, politiciens, chefs cuisiniers et autres héros – sont gays ou bisexuels…
… J’ai décidé de raconter leurs histoires afin de montrer aux personnes qui ont été brimées à cause de leur orientation sexuelle qu’il y a des gays admirables dont l’homosexualité n’a pas empêché la réussite…
Aujourd’hui je vous propose un article sur le scénariste et acteur américain Alan Campbell (1904 – 1963).
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Alan K. Campbell (21 février 1904 – 14 juin 1963) était un écrivain, scénariste et acteur américain. Il forma avec son épouse Dorothy Parker une équipe de scénaristes très demandée dans le Hollywood des années d’or.
Né à Richmond (Virginie), il était l’enfant unique de Harry L. Campbell, un vendeur de feuilles de tabac et Hortense Eichel Campbell. La famille de sa mère, les Eichel, étaient des émigrés juifs originaires d’Alsace.
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) week here at Happiness Between Tails continues! Ever the master of using a brilliant bow of wit to snare darkness with light, here’s three more of her famed quotations …
“I hate writing. I love having written.”
“Living well is the best revenge.”
“I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.”
a poem …
Razors pain you.
Rivers are damp.
Acids stain you and
drugs cause cramps.
Guns aren’t lawful.
Nooses give.
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.
Have you read or watched anything by Dorothy Parker?
Born on this day in 1893 Dorothy Parker, writer & poet is possibly best known for her famous wit. Her one liners are sharp as a knife. Lines like “A girls best friend is her mutter” or “The cure for boredom is curiosity, there is no cure for curiosity”. Her wit developed at an early age when she lost her mother and her father remarried. She refused to call her stepmother anything civil and referred to her as the housekeeper.
She joked that she married to cover up her Jewish background and avoid anti-Semitism. She was an avid anti-fascist and became aligned with left leaning politics in the 1930s. She was blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s McCarthy era as a communist.
“Excuse my dust” was her suggestion for her epitaph. When she died in 1967 she bequeathed her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After his death her estate…
