Turning 100 in "aught-three"

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It’s a little late to lobby for stamps, but here are some celebs who will have their centennials in 2003—

Vincente Minnelli
Adrian
Jazz musicians Bix Beiderbecke and Joe Venuti
Evelyn Waugh
Jeanette MacDonald
Lou Gehrig
Claudette Colbert
Great second bananas Jack Oakie, Elisha Cook, Jr., Una Merkel and “boop-a-doop girl” Helen Kane
Curly Howard
Claire Luce and Claire Booth Luce!

And—kina hora—Bob Hope and Al Hirschfeld might still be around for their centennials! (I think there actually has been a big push for a Beiderbecke stamp.)

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Don’t forget erotica writer Anaïs Nin, G-man Eliot Ness, cowboy actor Chill Wills, “where’s the beef” lady Clara Peller, Plan 9 from Outer Space co-stars John “Bunny” Breckinridge and Tor Johnson, Grand Ol’ Opry stalwart Roy Acuff

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All these people.

Zev Steinhardt

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A slight hijack:

I had a Poli Sci professor in college who was Korean and who spoke with a very pronounced, and very stereotypical, accent.

He was trying to making a point about Claire Booth Luce being an outspoken advocate and it came out this way:

“Crare Boo Ruce bery bocal woomang.”

To this day I can’t hear or read her name without thinking of Dr. Yim (and how he always smelled of kimchi).

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It’s never too late to lobby for stamps–Minnelli will get his eventually, at the least and Gehrig already has his.

Other centennials:

Vladimir Horowitz
Hamilton Luske (Disney animator: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Cinderella)
Barbara McLean (film editor: All About Eve, Nightmare Alley, The Gunfighter)
Yasujiro Ozu (Greatest Japanese Film Director ever)
Eric Portman (solid British actor: A Canterbury Tale, The 49th Parallel)
Authors Cornell Woolrich, George Orwell, and Dr. Spock

And Lawrence Welk! (“A-won-en-a-too-en-a”)

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Dude, I go to school with a guy named Tor Johnson. Doesn’t look a day over 25…

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